Medical image management system

• US 20050203867A1
• Filed: 02/25/2005
• Published: 09/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Heart Imaging Technologies LLC (Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Heart Imaging Technologies LLC (Intelerad Medical Systems Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kim, Raymond J., Chen, Enn-Ling, Judd, Robert M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/915 Image
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/941 Human sciences
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users

Abstract

A method of managing medical images is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of modalities, displaying to a user at a client computer a selection comprising images associated with at least two different modalities, and, in response to the user selection, simultaneously displaying at the client computer images corresponding to at least two different modalities.

Claims

1. A method of managing medical images comprising:

receiving a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of modalities;

displaying to a user at a client computer a selection comprising images associated with at least two different modalities; and

in response to the user selection, simultaneously displaying at the client computer images corresponding to at least two different modalities.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the images corresponding to the two modalities side-by-side.

3. A method of managing medical images comprising:

linking a first scanner for a first modality and a second scanner for a second modality to a transfer engine via a distributed network;

transferring medical images from the first and second scanners to the transfer engine; and

converting the medical images to a common browser compatible format.

4. A method of managing medical images comprising:

pulling a first image data having a first data format from a first scanner;

pulling a second image data having a second data format, different from the first data format, from a second scanner; and

converting the first and second image data having the first and second data formats to a browser compatible data format.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising displaying at a user selected browser the first and second image data after the image data had been converted to the browser compatible format, whereby medical image data from two different image formats may both be displayed at an arbitrary browser.