MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20090083072A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yasuhiko, OSAWA, Akira, Hara, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 8,527,296 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• 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: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

There is provided a medical information processing system including a diagnosis information storing section that stores thereon frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, where the frequency information indicates a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed, a diagnosis receiving section that receives a diagnosis during a diagnosis process, and a disease information presenting section that presents, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.

Claims

1. A medical information processing system comprising:

a diagnosis information storing section that stores thereon frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, the frequency information indicating a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed;

a diagnosis receiving section that receives a diagnosis during a diagnosis process; and

a disease information presenting section that presents, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.

2. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the diagnosis information storing section stores thereon the frequency information indicating a frequency with which a combination of an initial diagnosis disease indicated by the initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis disease indicated by the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis disease is observed, in association with the initial diagnosis disease and the conclusive diagnosis disease,

the diagnosis receiving section receives a disease whose disease information is to be presented to the diagnosis-making person during the diagnosis process, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, disease information of the conclusive diagnosis disease which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as the disease received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

3. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the diagnosis information storing section stores thereon the frequency information further in association with a finding observed during a diagnosis process, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, a finding for the conclusive diagnosis disease which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as the disease received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

4. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the diagnosis information storing section stores thereon the frequency information further in association with a symptom observed during a diagnosis process, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, a symptom of the conclusive diagnosis disease which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as the disease received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

5. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a disease relating to a diagnosis target which is to be diagnosed by the diagnosis-making person during the diagnosis process.

6. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a finding made by the diagnosis-making person, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, the disease information of the conclusive diagnosis disease that is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as a disease indicated by the finding received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

7. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a symptom observed during the diagnosis process, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, the disease information of the conclusive diagnosis disease that is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as a disease indicated by the symptom received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

8. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a case image storing section that stores thereon case images to be presented to a diagnosis-making person during a diagnosis process; and

a case image selecting section that selects a case image to be referred to by the diagnosis-making person during the diagnosis process, from the case images stored on the case image storing section, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a disease indicated by the case image selected by the case image selecting section.

9. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a case image storing section that stores thereon case images to be presented to a diagnosis-making person during a diagnosis process; and

a case image selecting section that selects a case image to be referred to by the diagnosis-making person during the diagnosis process, from the case images stored on the case image storing section, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a finding made for an examinee whose case image is selected by the case image selecting section, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, the disease information of the conclusive diagnosis disease that is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as a disease indicated by the finding received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

10. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a case image storing section that stores thereon case images to be presented to a diagnosis-making person during a diagnosis process; and

a case image selecting section that selects a case image to be referred to by the diagnosis-making person during the diagnosis process, from the case images stored on the case image storing section, wherein

the diagnosis receiving section receives a symptom observed for an examinee whose case image is selected by the case image selecting section, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, the disease information of the conclusive diagnosis disease that is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as a disease indicated by the symptom received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information.

11. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 8, wherein

from the case images stored on the case image storing section, the case image selecting section selects the case image that matches, in terms of characteristic values, a to-be-diagnosed image at a degree higher than a predetermined degree of match.

12. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 11, further comprising

a reference case image identifying section that identifies a case image referred to by a diagnosis-making person to make an initial diagnosis, wherein

the diagnosis information storing section stores thereon the frequency information in association with the referred case image identified by the reference case image identifying section, the initial diagnosis disease and the conclusive diagnosis disease, and

the disease information presenting section presents, to the diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis disease and the initial diagnosis disease which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the case image identified by the reference case image identifying section and one of the initial diagnosis disease and the conclusive diagnosis disease which is the same as the disease received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information, and presents to the diagnosis-making person the case image selected by the case image selecting section.

13. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 12, wherein

from the case images stored on the case image storing section, the case image selecting section selects the case image that (i) matches, in terms of characteristic values, a to-be-diagnosed image at a degree higher than a predetermined degree of match and (ii) is stored in association with frequency information satisfying a predetermined condition on the diagnosis information storing section.

14. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 13, wherein

from the case images stored on the case image storing section, the case image selecting section selects the case image that (i) matches, in terms of the characteristic values, the to-be-diagnosed image at the degree higher than the predetermined degree of match and (ii) is stored in association with the frequency information indicating a lower frequency than a predetermined value on the diagnosis information storing section.

15. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein

when the diagnosis information storing section stores thereon a plurality of conclusive diagnosis diseases in association with the initial diagnosis disease that is the same as the disease received by the diagnosis receiving section,

the disease information presenting section increases degrees of emphasis on a plurality of pieces of disease information of the plurality of conclusive diagnosis diseases as frequencies indicated by a plurality of pieces of frequency information associated with the plurality of conclusive diagnosis diseases increase, when presenting the plurality of pieces of disease information to the diagnosis-making person.

16. The medical information processing system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a diagnosis obtaining section that obtains a new conclusive diagnosis; and

a frequency information updating section that, when the diagnosis obtaining section obtains the new conclusive diagnosis, calculates the frequency, and updates the frequency information that is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis with frequency information indicating the calculated frequency.

17. A medical information processing method comprising:

storing frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, the frequency information indicating a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed;

receiving a diagnosis during a diagnosis process; and

presenting, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored in the storing in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received in the receiving, in a manner according to the frequency information stored in the storing in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.

18. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for use with a medical information processing system, the program causing the medical information processing system to function as:

a diagnosis information storing section that stores thereon frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, the frequency information indicating a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed;

a diagnosis receiving section that receives a diagnosis during a diagnosis process; and

a disease information presenting section that presents, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.