Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 20060265252A1
• Filed: 05/16/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nishii, Yuichi, Sako, Tsukasa
• Application Number:
  US11/434,151
• Publication Number:
  US 20060265252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

Processing of searching for personal information and image processing parameters specified by image identification information (S31) and specifying readable elements of the readout personal information to be transmitted to a user terminal is executed (S32). Of the elements contained in the personal information searched in step S31, the elements specified in step S32 are read out (S33). Medical image data specified by image identification information is searched for and subjected to image processing using the image processing parameters found in step S31 (S34). The elements read out in step S33 are added to the medical image data which has undergone image processing (S35), and the medical image is transmitted to the user terminal (S36).

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of accessing a database in which a plurality of sets of a patient'"'"'s medical image and personal information about the patient are registered, comprising:

holding means for holding a read condition for elements contained in the personal information;

specifying means for, upon detecting that access information to access a patient'"'"'s medical image in the database is input from an outside, specifying a readable element of the elements contained in the personal information registered in the database in association with the medical image;

read means for reading out the element specified by said specifying means and the medical image from the database; and

output means for outputting the element read out by said read means and the medical image to the outside.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the elements contained in the personal information include a name of the patient, a name of a disease of the patient, a date of birth of the patient, an age of the patient, and a sex of the patient.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the access information includes identification information to identify an operator of a terminal operated to access the patient'"'"'s medical image in the database, purpose information representing a purpose of the access, and image identification information to identify the medical image, and

said specifying means specifies, of the elements contained in the personal information, the readable element in accordance with a combination of the identification information, the purpose information, and the image identification information input from the outside by referring to the read condition.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the read condition is determined on the basis of a name of a disease stored in the database.

5. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus capable of accessing a database in which a plurality of sets of a patient'"'"'s medical image and personal information about the patient are registered, comprising:

a holding step of holding, in a memory, a read condition for elements contained in the personal information;

a specifying step of, upon detecting that access information to access a patient'"'"'s medical image in the database is input from an outside, specifying a readable element of the elements contained in the personal information registered in the database in association with the medical image;

a read step of reading out the element specified in the specifying step and the medical image from the database; and

an output step of outputting the element read out in the read step and the medical image to the outside.

6. A program causing a computer to execute an information processing method of claim 5.

7. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program of claim 6.