Medical image management system

• US 20050107689A1
• Filed: 11/10/2004
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Sasano, Yasuhiko
• Application Number:
  US10/984,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20050107689A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/425
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/032 Transmission computed tomography [CT]

Abstract

A medical image management system includes: an information storage for storing a medical image and report information regarding diagnosis; a displaying section for displaying the medical image and/or the report information from the information storage; an operating section for setting image format of display screen and its displaying turn for displaying the medical image and/or the report information; a pattern storage for storing the display appearance and the displaying turn set through the operating section so as to relate them with user information of an operator of the operating section; an obtaining section for obtaining user information of an interpreting user; and a display controller for obtaining the medical image and/or the report information during the interpretation, and display pattern information corresponding to the user information, and displaying the medical image and/or the report information according to the display appearance and the displaying turn corresponding to the display pattern information.

Claims

1. A medical image management system comprising:

an information storing section for storing a medical image in which an image of a subject is generated and report information regarding diagnosis;

a displaying section for displaying at least one of the medical image and the report information each of which is obtained from the information storing section;

an operating section for setting an image format of a display screen and displaying turn of the display screen which are used to display at least one of the medical image and the report information on the displaying section;

a pattern storing section for storing the display appearance of the display screen and the displaying turn of the display screen which is set through the operating section, so as to relate the display appearance and the displaying turn with user information of a first user who has operated the operating section;

an obtaining section for obtaining user information of a second user who performs an interpretation; and

a display controlling section for obtaining at least one of the medical image and the report information from the information storing section during the interpretation, for obtaining display pattern information corresponding to the user information obtained by the obtaining section from the pattern storing section, and for displaying at least one of the medical image and the report information on the displaying section according to the display appearance and the displaying turn corresponding to the obtained display pattern information.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a pattern controlling section for collecting statistics of the display pattern information stored in the display pattern storing section, for calculating a display pattern having highest frequency of use as a standard pattern, and for storing information of the standard pattern in the display pattern storing section.