Graphical user interfaces for sets of medical image data files
First Claim
1. A method of representing a patient record comprising a plurality of medical images stored as image files on a computer system, comprising:
- selecting a plurality of image files relating to an individual patient;
identifying a date and anatomical feature for each of the image files; and
providing an overview of the medical images of the individual patient on a display as thumbnails sorted by date in a first dimension and anatomical feature in a second dimension.
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Abstract
In a PACS environment, an overview of patient'"'"'s history made up of a potentially large number of digital images is displayed as a two-dimensional array of thumbnails sorted by date in a one direction and anatomical feature in a second direction. From this very simple two-dimensional ordering of thumbnail images it is possible to appreciate an amazingly large amount about the patient'"'"'s history. The information is deduced in a fully intuitive simple fashion, without having to study any patient history notes. The intuitive understanding of the patient'"'"'s history comes in part from the special layout of the thumbnails which gives the user information on what images were taken at what time, in part from the fact that the user can see some major features of the image content in the thumbnails, and in further part because the user is able to intuitively combine the thumbnail layout and image content information.
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52 Claims
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1. A method of representing a patient record comprising a plurality of medical images stored as image files on a computer system, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of image files relating to an individual patient;
identifying a date and anatomical feature for each of the image files; and
providing an overview of the medical images of the individual patient on a display as thumbnails sorted by date in a first dimension and anatomical feature in a second dimension. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of viewing a plurality of medical images specific to an individual patient stored as image files on a computer system, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of image files relating to a specific anatomical feature of the individual patient; and
presenting the medical images specific to the selected anatomical feature as a toolbar adjacent to an image viewing area, wherein the toolbar includes thumbnails of the medical images sorted by date in a first dimension and view in a second dimension, if multiple views exist. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer program product for handling a patient record comprising a plurality of medical images stored as image files on a computer system, the computer program product being operable to:
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select a plurality of image files relating to an individual patient from an image file database;
identify a date and anatomical feature for each of the image files; and
provide an overview of the medical images of the individual patient on a display as thumbnails sorted by date in a first dimension and anatomical feature in a second dimension. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A computer system operable:
- to select a plurality of medical image files relating to an individual patient from a library of medical image files;
to identify a date and anatomical feature for each of the selected medical image files; and
to provide an overview of the medical image files of the individual patient on a display as thumbnails sorted by date in a first dimension and anatomical feature in a second dimension. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
- to select a plurality of medical image files relating to an individual patient from a library of medical image files;
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43. A computer network comprising:
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a file store containing a library of medical image files; and
a computer workstation connected to the file store over a network and operable to select the medical image files that relate to an individual patient from the library, to identify a date and anatomical feature for each of the selected medical image files, and to provide an overview of the medical image files of the individual patient on a display as thumbnails sorted by date in a first dimension and anatomical feature in a second dimension.
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44. A computer program product for viewing a plurality of medical images specific to an individual patient stored as image files on a computer system, the computer program product being operable to:
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select a plurality of image files relating to a specific anatomical feature of the individual patient; and
present the medical images specific to the selected anatomical feature as a toolbar adjacent to an image viewing area, wherein the toolbar includes thumbnails of the medical images sorted by date in a first dimension and view in a second dimension, if multiple views exist. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A computer system for viewing a plurality of medical images specific to an individual patient stored as image files on a computer system, the computer system being operable:
- to select a plurality of image files relating to a specific anatomical feature of the individual patient; and
to present the medical images specific to the selected anatomical feature as a toolbar adjacent to an image viewing area, wherein the toolbar includes thumbnails of the medical images sorted by date in a first dimension and view in a second dimension, if multiple views exist.
- to select a plurality of image files relating to a specific anatomical feature of the individual patient; and
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52. A computer network comprising:
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a file store containing a library of image files storing medical images; and
a computer workstation connected to the file store over a network and operable;
to select a subset of the image files relating to a specific anatomical feature of an individual patient; and
to present the medical images specific to the selected anatomical feature as a toolbar adjacent to an image viewing area, wherein the toolbar includes thumbnails of the medical images sorted by date in a first dimension and view in a second dimension, if multiple views exist.
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