PROCESSING A REPORT

• US 20140316770A1
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Sevenster, Merlijn, Qian, Yuechen, Buurman, Johannes
• Granted Patent: US 9,922,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

A system for processing a report, comprising a natural language processing unit (1) for processing a natural language textual report to detect a description of a reference to at least part of a data object, wherein the description is expressed in natural language as a part of the natural language textual report. The system comprises an accessing unit (2) for accessing said at least part of the data object in a collection of data objects, based on the reference. The system comprises an associating unit (3) for associating the accessed at least part of the data object with the description of the reference. The natural language processing unit (1) comprises a view parameter extraction unit (4) for extracting a view parameter indicative of a view of the data object from the description of the reference.

Claims

1. A system for processing a report, comprising

a reference description detector for processing a natural language textual report to detect a description of a reference to at least part of a data object, wherein the description is expressed in natural language as a part of the natural language textual report;

and

an associating unit for generating an association between the description of the reference and said at least part of the data object.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an accessing unit for accessing said at least part of the data object in a collection of data objects, based on the reference.

3. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a description interpreter for interpreting the detected description of the reference, to obtain a normalized representation of the reference.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the description interpreter comprises a view parameter extraction unit for extracting a view parameter indicative of a view of the data object from the description of the reference.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the data object comprises an image dataset, and wherein the view parameter is indicative of a coordinate value relating to the image dataset.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the coordinate value relates to a slice number of the image dataset.

7. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a view generator for generating a view of said at least part of the data object based on the view parameter.

8. The system according to claim 3, wherein the data object comprises an image dataset, and wherein the description interpreter comprises an object description extraction unit for extracting a description of an object that is graphically represented by the image dataset.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the accessing unit comprises an object detector for detecting the object in the image dataset based on the description of the object.

10. The system according to claim 9, further comprising a view generator for generating a view of the data object, and wherein the view generator is arranged for emphasizing the object that was detected in the image dataset.

11. The system according to claim 1, further comprising

a user input handler for enabling a user to select the description of the reference in the text report;

and

a view generator for generating a view of said at least part of the object based on the association in response to an activation of the reference user input.

12. The system according to claim 1, further comprising

a view generator for generating a view of a data object based on a view parameter;

and

a reference indicator for indicating that the generated view corresponds to the description of the reference, based on the association.

13. A workstation comprising a system according to claim 1.

15. A computer program product comprising instructions for causing a processor system to perform the method according to claim 11.

14. A method of processing a report, comprising

processing a natural language textual report to detect a description of a reference to at least part of a data object, wherein the description is expressed in natural language as a part of the natural language textual report;

and

generating an association between the description of the reference and said at least part of the data object.