Image database system

• US 20060010013A1
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Satoshi Yamatake
• Original Assignee: Satoshi Yamatake
• Inventors: Yamatake, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/109,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20060010013A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an image database system capable of easily correlating medical image data with the object part of the medical opinion data interpreted at the time of preparing the medical opinion data and accurately evaluating the diagnosis. A viewer includes: position specification means for specifying any position of the displayed image; report displaying means for displaying a template for inputting opinion data for the position specified by the position specification means so that the position specified by the position specification means is indicated; and report information storing means for storing the opinion or diagnostic data inputted in the template as report information in the image database server. The report information is stored with link information table data associated with the image data corresponding to the inputted opinion or diagnostic data and the specification position data for the image data in the image database server.

Claims

1. An image database system comprising:

a storage unit for storing medical image data;

an image database server for storing attribute information including key information associated with the medical image data stored in the storage unit;

a viewer for acquiring and displaying the medical image data from the image database server,

the viewer includes;

position specification means for specifying any position of the displayed image;

report displaying means for displaying a template for inputting opinion data for the position specified by the position specification means so that the position specified by the position specification means is indicated; and

report information storing means for storing the opinion or diagnostic data inputted in the template as report information in the image database server,

wherein the report information is stored with link information table data associated with the image data corresponding to the inputted opinion or diagnostic data and the specification position data for the image data in the image database server.

2. The image database system according to claim 1, wherein the link information table data includes the displaying condition of the image data due to the viewer.

3. The image database system according to claim 1, wherein the report displaying means includes report summary information display means for displaying report summary information including one or more opinions or diagnostic data for the image data as a diagnostic object, and a thumbnail image of the image data, and the report information storing means adds diagnostic level data capable of identifying primary registration data due to a primary diagnostician, and definite registration data due to a secondary diagnostician to the report summary information, and stores the data in the image database server.