SOFTWARE BUG AND PERFORMANCE DEFICIENCY REPORTING SYSTEM

• US 20110238768A1
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Habets, Raymond Joseph Elisabeth, Nijlunsing, Rutger
• Granted Patent: US 9,459,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0766 Error or fault reporting or storing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A medical image system is disclosed, comprising a medical image processing module (20) and a user comment control module (30). The medical image processing module (20) includes at least a medical image display module (22) and a user comment initiation module (26). The user comment control module (30) includes at least: a screenshot capture module or hook (32) configured to capture a screenshot of operation of the medical image processing module at about a time of receipt of a signal from the user comment initiation module; a screenshot editing module or hook (36) configured to enable user editing of the captured screenshot to generate a user-edited screenshot; and a comment review/editing module or hook (40) configured to automatically generate and enable user editing and transmission of an electronic mail message having the user edited screenshot embedded or attached.

Claims

1. A medical image system comprising:

a medical image processing module (20) including at least a medical image display module (22) and a user comment initiation module (26); and

a user comment control module (30) including at least;

a screenshot capture module or hook (32) configured to capture a screenshot of operation of the medical image processing module at about a time of receipt of a signal from the user comment initiation module,

a screenshot editing module or hook (36) configured to enable user editing of the captured screenshot to generate a user-edited screenshot, and

a comment review/editing module or hook (40) configured to automatically generate and enable user editing and transmission of an electronic mail message having the user-edited screenshot embedded or attached.

2. The medical image system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the user comment control module (30) further comprises:

an automated screenshot anonymization module (34) configured to automatically identify and redact one or more regions of the captured screenshot that contain subject-identifying content or private medical information content.

3. The medical image system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the screenshot editing module or hook (36) is configured to enable a user to perform operations selected from a group consisting of (i) selecting and redacting portions of the captured screenshot, and (ii) adding text or graphical annotations to the captured screenshot.

4. The medical image system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the comment review/editing module or hook (40) is configured to automatically construct an electronic mail message having the user-edited screenshot embedded or attached, and is further configured to enable user editing and transmission of the constructed electronic mail message.

5. A digital storage medium storing instructions executable to perform a method comprising:

performing medical image processing including at least displaying a medical image;

during the performing, receiving a user comment initiation input;

capturing a screenshot of the medical image processing at about the time of receipt of the user comment initiation input;

performing an editing process to enable a user to edit the screenshot to generate a user-edited screenshot; and

communicating the user-edited screenshot to a developer or maintainer of software defining the performed medical image processing.

6. The digital storage medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the performed editing process is defined by the stored instructions.

7. The digital storage medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the performed method further comprises:

automatically identifying one or more regions of the captured screenshot that contain subject-identifying content or private medical information content; and

automatically redacting the one or more automatically identified regions;

wherein the automatic identifying process and the automatic redacting process are each defined by the stored instructions.

8. The digital storage medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the capturing of a screenshot comprises one of:

invoking a screenshot capture module defined by the stored instructions and configured to capture screenshots of the performed medical image processing, and

invoking a system screenshot capture function of a computer executing the stored instructions.

9. The digital storage medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the performed editing process enables a user to (i) select and redact portions of the captured screenshot and (ii) add text or graphical annotations to the captured screenshot.

10. The digital storage medium as set forth in claim 5, wherein the communicating comprises:

automatically constructing an electronic mail message having the user-edited screenshot embedded or attached; and

performing an electronic mail process enabling user editing and transmission of the constructed electronic mail message;

wherein at least the automatic constructing process is defined by the stored instructions.

11. A method comprising:

performing user-interactive application processing including displaying information to a user on a display;

during the performing, receiving a user comment initiation input;

capturing a screenshot of the information displayed to the user on the display at about the time of receipt of the user comment initiation input;

performing an editing process to enable a user to edit the screenshot to generate a user-edited screenshot, the editing process preferably enabling a user to perform editing operations including at least (i) selecting and redacting portions of the captured screenshot, and (ii) adding text or graphical annotations to the captured screenshot; and

communicating the user-edited screenshot to a storage accessible by a developer or maintainer of software defining the performed user-interactive application processing.

12. The method as set forth in claim 11, wherein the communicating comprises:

automatically constructing an electronic mail message having the user-edited screenshot embedded or attached; and

performing an electronic mail process enabling user editing and transmission of the constructed electronic mail message.

13. The method as set forth in claim 12, wherein the automatic constructing of the electronic mail message comprises:

automatically inserting into the electronic mail message as user-readable text information pertaining to a state of the user-interactive application processing at about the time of receipt of the user comment initiation input.

14. The method as set forth in claim 12, further comprising:

repeating the capturing and the performing of the editing process to generate a plurality of user-edited screenshots corresponding to different times of the performed user-interactive application processing, the automatic constructing including automatically constructing the electronic mail message having the plurality of user-edited screenshots embedded or attached.

15. The method as set forth in claim 12, wherein the automatic constructing of the electronic mail message comprises:

selecting one or more recipient email addresses based on a state of the user-interactive application processing about the time of receipt of the user comment initiation input; and

inserting the selected one or more recipient email addresses into a recipient field of the electronic mail message.