System and method for generating a report using a knowledge base

• US 20050114283A1
• Filed: 05/14/2004
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Agarwal, Deepak, Cotton, Peter B., Divinsky, Aaron, Shapiro, Marc, Pearson, Philip, Odlivak, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US10/846,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20050114283A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/555 for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

A method and system for assisting a user in generating a report regarding a procedure such as a medical procedure. A first display region provides a hierarchical menu of available keywords from a knowledge base. A second display region provides a hierarchical menu of particular keywords that have been selected by the user. A third display region provides a report from a sentence that was generated by populating a sentence model based on the selected keywords. The sentence can be edited by selecting a keyword from the sentence, then selecting a replacement keyword from the first display region. A grammar engine corrects the grammar of the sentence based on user settings for the keywords.

Claims

1. A method for generating a report regarding a procedure, comprising:

displaying available keywords from a knowledge base on a first display region of a user interface;

receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting at least one of the available keywords from the first display region;

displaying the at least one of the available keywords on a second display region of the user interface, responsive to the selection thereof by the at least one user command;

populating a sentence model according to the at least one of the available keywords to provide a populated sentence; and

displaying the populated sentence on a third display region of the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the populating the sentcnce model comprises selecting the sentence model from among a plurality of available sentence models according to the at least one of the available keywords.

3. The method of claim 1, farther comprising:

editing the populated sentence by;

(a) receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting the at least one of the available keywords in the populated sentence, and at least one user command selecting another of the available keywords from the first display region, and (b) re-populating the sentence model using the another of the available keywords in place of the at least one of the available keywords.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the displaying the populated sentence comprises displaying the populated sentence with the at least one of the available keywords highlighted therein.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the populating the sentence model comprises providing static text in at least one text placeholder.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the populating the sentence model comprises providing a specified property value in at least one node placeholder.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the populating the sentence model comprises generating text in the at least one sentence that depends on the value of a property.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the receiving comprises receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting a plurality of the available keywords from the first display region;

the populating the sentence model comprises populating the sentence model according to the plurality of the available keywords to provide the populated sentence; and

the sentence model comprises a summary sentence model in which fewer than all of the plurality of the available keywords are used.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the rccciving comprises receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting a plurality of the available keywords from the first display region;

the populating the sentence model comprises populating the sentence model according to the plurality of the available keywords to provide the populated sentence; and

the sentence model comprises a normal sentence model in which all of the plurality of the available keywords are used.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, via the user interface, at lest one user command setting a grammatical property of the at least one of the available keywords;

analyzing a grammar of the at least one populated sentence based on the grammatical property.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the displaying the available keywords comprises displaying the available keywords on the first display region organized according to at least one hierarchical menu wherein related keywords are child keywords of a parent keyword.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the receiving comprises receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting a plurality of the available keywords from the first display region; and

the displaying the at least one of the available keywords comprises displaying the plurality of the available keywords on the second display region organized according to at least one hierarchical menu in accordance with the at least one hierarchical menu in the first display region.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the child keywords qualify the parent keyword.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the receiving comprises receiving, via the user interface, a shortcut command for selecting multiple keywords at a time from the available keywords.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base comprises at least one user command for adding a keyword to the knowledge base.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base comprises at least one user command for editing properties of the at least one of the available keywords.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base comprises at least one user command for associating a billing code with the at least one of the available keywords.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base comprises at least one user command for at least one of creating and editing the sentence model.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the at least one user command for maintaining the knowledge base comprises at least one user command for at least one of adding and editing a trigger for the at least one of the available keywords.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying at least one image obtained from the procedure in a fourth display region of the user interface.

22. A method for providing keywords for generating a report regarding a procedure, comprising:

providing respective keywords for use in the report;

associating each of the respective keywords with a respective classification in a hierarchically arranged tree structure of classifications;

associating respective properties with the respective keywords; and

defining, based on the respective properties, a set of allowable values for a group of the respective keywords;

wherein the group of the respective keywords are related.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein:

the group of the respective keywords which are related are associated with the same classification.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein:

the group of the respective keywords which are related inherit from the same classification.

25. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

displaying the available keywords on a first display region of a user interface organized in a first tree structure that is based on the hierarchically arranged tree structure of classifications;

receiving, via the user interface, at least one user command selecting at least one of the available keywords from the first tree structure;

displaying the at least one of the available keywords on a second display region of the user interface, responsive to the receiving, in a second tree structure that is based on the first tree structure.

26. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

populating a sentence model according to the at least one of the available keywords to provide a populated sentence; and

displaying the populated sentence on the user interface.

27. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

querying a database containing the keywords based on at least one of the respective classifications.

28. A user interface for assisting a user in generating a report regarding a procedure, comprising:

a first display region displaying available keywords from a knowledge base;

wherein the user provides at least one user command selccting at least one of the available keywords from the first display region;

a second display region displaying the at least one of the available keywords responsive to the selection thereof by the at least one user command; and

a third display region displaying a populated sentence that is provided by populating a sentence model according to the at least one of the available keywords.

29. A program storage device tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method for providing keywords for generating a report regarding a procedure, the method comprising:

providing respective keywords for use in the report;

associating each of the respective keywords with a respective classification in a hierarchically arranged tree structure of classifications;

associating respective properties with the respective keywords; and

defining, based on the respective properties, a set of allowable values for a group of the respective keywords;

wherein the group of the respective keywords are related.