SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING PREPARATION OF MEDICAL-IMAGE READING REPORTS

• US 20090262995A1
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2008
• 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: Niwa, Kenichi, FUTAMI, Hikaru
• Granted Patent: US 8,385,616 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/128
• 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 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A report-data collecting unit retrieves and collects a character string in accordance with the prescribed character-string retrieval condition and the character string of annotation data. An image data display unit displays the character string and a list showing a medical image referred to while the object is being photographed. When the user selects the character string by designating the medical image shown in the list, both the character string and the medical image are associated by an image-data acquisition/process unit and then pasted at a prescribed position in a medical-image reading report preparation screen. Further, the data representing the medical image thus pasted is archived in an image database.

Claims

1. A system for assisting preparation of medical-image reading reports, comprising:

a medical-image storage unit archiving medical-image data;

a medical-image reading report storage unit archiving a medical-image reading report;

a collection unit configured to collect a character string of annotation data contained in the medical-image data or a character string associated with the medical image in the medical-image reading report, or both, from the medical-image storage unit or the medical-image reading report storage unit, or from both;

a display unit configured to display the medical-image reading table or a reference image, or both, on a display screen;

a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display, at the same time, the medical image referred to while photographing an object and a list showing the character string;

a selection unit configured to restrict the selection of the character string collected;

an association unit configured to cause the selection unit to select a desired character string from the list, thereby associating the character string selected with the medical image;

an input unit configured to insert the character string and the medical image associated to each other by the association unit, at a prescribed position on a report preparation screen, thereby preparing the medical-image reading report; and

a data archiving unit configured to archive the image data representing the medical image associated with the character string inserted.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the collection unit retrieves and collects a character string associated with a specific condition, in accordance with a specific related data.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit changes the character train shown in the list, in accordance with an attribute of the reference image being displayed, in order to associate the reference image and the character string with each other, both displayed by the display unit.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display, in the list, only the image associated with the character string.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein while the display unit is displaying the medical image associated with the character train collected, the display control unit causes the display unit to display the character train in the medical image.

6. A system for assisting preparation of medical-image reading reports, comprising:

a medical-image storage unit archiving medical-image data;

a medical-image reading report storage unit archiving a medical-image reading report;

a collection unit configured to collect, under a specific condition, a character string of annotation data contained in the medical-image data or a character string associated with the medical image in the medical-image reading report, or both, from the medical-image storage unit or the medical-image reading report storage unit, or from both;

a display unit configured to display an medical image of an object, a medical-image reading report about bout the medical image, and the character string collected by the collection unit;

a selection unit configured to select a desired character train from the character train displayed by the display unit; and

an edition unit configured to input the character string selected, to the medical-image reading report displayed by the display unit and to associate the medical-image reading report with the character string input.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein a specific condition is determined by an attribute data about the medical image being displayed at present.