IMAGE DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM AND IMAGE DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD

• US 20090103790A1
• Filed: 10/06/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KAZUNO, Muneyasu, MASUZAWA, Takashi, YAMAGISHI, Hiromasa, NIWA, Kenichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,989,458 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/128
• 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 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS

Abstract

There is disclosed an image diagnosis support system which acquires a medical image from a medical image imaging unit, generates object information on the medical image, stores the medical image and the object information in a data storage unit and a database, stores case information for each patient based on the object information in correspondence with a case name and information of the medical image in an information table, collects the case information for each patient read from the information table in correspondence with the case name in accordance with a conference instruction and the medical image read from the data storage unit and the database in accordance with the information of the medical image, respectively, as conference information by a conference information display•feedback section to display the same, and feeds back a conference result based on display contents to the information table.

Claims

1. An image diagnosis support system having a conference function, comprising:

an image storage unit which stores a medical image acquired by a medical image imaging unit;

an information table storage unit which stores case information for each patient in correspondence with a case name and information of the medical image as an information table;

a conference information collecting unit which collects the case information for each patient read from the information table storage unit in correspondence with the case name and the medical image read from the image storage unit in accordance with the information of the medical image of the information table, respectively, as conference information;

a display unit which displays the collected conference information;

an input unit which inputs a feedback index indicating a degree of evaluation or characteristics as reference information concerning the displayed conference information;

a change unit which performs addition, change and correction with respect to the displayed conference information in response to the input from a user; and

a feedback unit which reflects the addition, the change and the correction performed concerning the conference information in the information table stored in the information table storage unit and which associates the information table with the input feedback index to store the same.

2. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein the information of the medical image of the information table is at least one of search information and imaging information of the medical image.

3. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein the feedback unit is configured to add evaluation information based on a conference result to each case name of the information table.

4. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein the feedback unit is configured to add information classified for each purpose based on a conference result to each case name.

5. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein the image storage unit stores object information on the medical image acquired by the medical image imaging unit, and case information for each patient is based on the object information.

6. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 5, wherein the object information is at least one of patient information, imaging information, key image information indicating the characteristics of a diagnosis part and past study information referred to during imaging.

7. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 1, wherein the conference information collecting unit collects the conference information by use of search conditions including the feedback index.

8. An image diagnosis support system having a conference function comprising:

an image storage unit which stores a medical image acquired by a medical image imaging unit;

an information table storage unit which stores case information for each patient in correspondence with a case name and information of the medical image as an information table;

a conference information collecting unit which collects the case information for each patient read from the information table storage unit in correspondence with the case name and the medical image read from the image storage unit in accordance with the information of the medical image of the information table, respectively, as conference information;

a display unit which displays information collected by the conference information collecting unit; and

a feedback unit which feeds back the result of a conference based on contents displayed in this display unit to the information table.

9. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 8, wherein the information of the medical image of the information table is at least one of search information and imaging information of the medical image.

10. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 8, wherein the feedback unit is configured to add evaluation information based on the conference result to each case name of the information table.

11. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 8, wherein the feedback unit is configured to add information classified for each purpose based on the conference result to each case name.

12. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 8, wherein the image storage unit stores object information on the medical image acquired by the medical image imaging unit, and case information for each patient is based on the object information.

13. The image diagnosis support system according to claim 12, wherein the object information is at least one of patient information, imaging information, key image information indicating the characteristics of a diagnosis part and past study information referred to during imaging.

14. An image diagnosis support method comprising:

collecting, from an image storage unit which stores a medical image acquired by a medical image imaging unit and an information table storage unit which stores case information for each patient in correspondence with a case name and information of the medical image as an information table, the case information for each patient read from the information table storage unit in correspondence with the case name and the medical image read from the image storage unit in accordance with the information of the medical image of the information table, respectively, as conference information;

displaying the collected conference information;

inputting a feedback index indicating a degree of evaluation or characteristics as reference information concerning the displayed conference information;

performing addition, change and correction with respect to the displayed conference information in response to the input from a user; and

feeding back the addition, the change and the correction performed with respect to the conference information to the information table stored in the information table storage unit, and associating the information table with the input feedback index to store the same.

15. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein the information of the medical image of the information table is at least one of search information and imaging information of the medical image.

16. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein the feedback permits adding evaluation information based on a conference result to each case name of the information table.

17. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein the feedback permits adding information classified for each purpose based on a conference result to each case name.

18. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein the image storage unit stores object information on the medical image acquired by the medical image imaging unit, and case information for each patient is based on the object information.

19. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 18, wherein the object information is at least one of patient information, imaging information, key image information indicating the characteristics of a diagnosis part and past study information referred to during imaging.

20. The image diagnosis support method according to claim 14, wherein the collection of the conference information collects the conference information by use of search conditions including the feedback index.