MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110199390A1
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Iizuka, Yoshio, Imaizumi, Masaaki, Satoh, Kiyohide, Kawagishi, Masami
• Application Number:
  US13/124,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20110199390A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• 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: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

A medical diagnosis support apparatus includes an item display unit which displays, on a display, a plurality of items for which a parameter for deriving diagnosis support information can be input, a temporary input unit which inputs a plurality of different values as temporary input values for the plurality of items displayed by the item display unit, a deriving unit which derives, by referring to medical information, a plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information each corresponding to one of combinations of the plurality of different temporary input values, and a presenting unit which presents, on the display, the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information derived by the deriving unit, together with the display of the plurality of items, in a list format.

Claims

1. A medical diagnosis support apparatus comprising:

item display means for displaying, on display means, a plurality of items for which a parameter for deriving diagnosis support information can be input;

temporary input means configured to input a plurality of different values as temporary input values for the plurality of items displayed by said item display means;

deriving means for deriving, by referring to medical information, a plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information each corresponding to one of combinations of the plurality of different temporary input values input by said temporary input means; and

presenting means for presenting, on said display means, the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information derived by said deriving means, together with the display of the plurality of items, in a list format.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising selecting means for selecting one of the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information displayed in the list format,

wherein said temporary input means sets a temporary input value corresponding to the diagnosis support information selected by said selecting means, as a first temporary input value having a highest priority order among the plurality of different temporary input values.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising determining means for determining the first temporary input value set by said temporary input means, as a final input value for determining one of the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information.

5. A program which is stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and causes a computer to function as a medical diagnosis support apparatus cited in claim 1.

4. A method of controlling a medical diagnosis support apparatus, comprising:

an item display step of displaying, on display means, a plurality of items for which a parameter for deriving diagnosis support information can be input;

a temporary input step of accepting a plurality of different values input as temporary input values for the plurality of items displayed in the item display step;

a deriving step of deriving, by referring to medical information, a plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information each corresponding to one of combinations of the plurality of different temporary input values input in the temporary input step; and

a presenting step of presenting, on the display means, the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information derived in the deriving step, together with the display of the plurality of items, in a list format.