MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20130212056A1
• Filed: 01/25/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kawagishi, Masami
• Granted Patent: US 9,361,580 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A medical diagnosis support apparatus is provided. In the medical diagnosis support apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires medical information associated with a diagnosis target as input information. An inference unit infers a diagnosis name of the diagnosis target based on the acquired input information. A calculation unit calculates the influence rate of each input information with respect to each inference. A creation unit creates a report sentence based on the calculated influence rate.

Claims

1. A medical diagnosis support apparatus which provides information for supporting medical diagnosis, the apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire medical information associated with a diagnosis target as input information;

an inference unit configured to infer a diagnosis name of the diagnosis target based on the acquired input information;

a calculation unit configured to calculate an influence rate of the acquired input information with respect to each inference; and

a creation unit configured to create a report sentence based on the calculated influence rate.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said creation unit selects part of the input information based on the influence rate and creates a report sentence including the selected input information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said creation unit changes an order of writing of the selected input information based on the influence rate.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said creation unit changes a modification structure of the selected input information based on the influence rate.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said report sentence creation unit changes the modification structure of the input information in accordance with whether input information written in the report sentence has a positive influence rate or negative influence rate.

6. A method of controlling a medical diagnosis support apparatus which provides information for supporting medical diagnosis, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring medical information associated with a diagnosis target as input information;

inferring a diagnosis name of the diagnosis target based on the acquired input information;

calculating an influence rate of the acquired input information with respect to each inference; and

creating a report sentence based on the calculated influence rate.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for controlling a medical diagnosis support apparatus including a computer executing the program, the program comprising code for performing the following steps:

acquiring medical information associated with a diagnosis target as input information;

inferring a diagnosis name of the diagnosis target based on the acquired input information;

calculating an influence rate of the acquired input information with respect to each inference; and

creating a report sentence based on the calculated influence rate.