Methods and apparatus for processing image data to aid in detecting disease
First Claim
1. A method for at least one of detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, or tracking of a disease, said method comprising:
- providing analysis software configured to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease of a patient, said analysis software executable on a personal computer of a patient;
imaging the patient with a medical imaging apparatus;
downloading medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus to the personal computer of the patient; and
repeating said imaging and downloading a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide said analysis software with sufficient images to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track the disease in the patient by computer analysis of the images via the analysis software executable on the personal computer of the patient.
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Abstract
A method for detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, and/or tracking of a disease includes providing analysis software configured to detect, quantify, stage, report, and/or track a disease utilizing images of a patient. The analysis software is executable on a personal computer of a patient. Patients are then imaged utilizing a medical imaging apparatus and medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus are downloaded to the personal computer of the patient. The imaging and downloading are repeated a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide the analysis software with sufficient images to detect, quantify, stage, report, and/or track the disease in the patient.
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1. A method for at least one of detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, or tracking of a disease, said method comprising:
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providing analysis software configured to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease of a patient, said analysis software executable on a personal computer of a patient; imaging the patient with a medical imaging apparatus; downloading medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus to the personal computer of the patient; and repeating said imaging and downloading a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide said analysis software with sufficient images to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track the disease in the patient by computer analysis of the images via the analysis software executable on the personal computer of the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A network for at least one of detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, or tracking of a disease, said network comprising:
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analysis software executable on personal computers of patients, said software including instructions configured to instruct the personal computer to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease by computer analysis of images of a patient; and an interface for transferring scanned images of a patient to a personal computer of the imaged patient. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A computing device configured to:
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download medical images of a patient produced by an imaging apparatus to a computing device of a patient; analyze said downloaded medical images to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease in the patient and report analysis results to the patient via an image analysis software executable on the computing device of the patient; and transmit results of said analysis to a remote database. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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53. A method for performing a drug treatment trial comprising:
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providing analysis software configured to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease of a patient, said analysis software executable on personal computers of a plurality of patients; imaging the patients with medical imaging apparatus to produce medical images of the patients; downloading the medical images of each imaged patient to the personal computer of the imaged patient; repeating said imaging and downloading a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide said analysis software with sufficient images to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track the disease in each patient; analyzing said medical images utilizing the personal computers of each patient to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track a disease in the patient by computer analysis of the images via the analysis software executable on the personal computer of the patient; and uploading results of the analysis from each patient'"'"'s personal computer to a database for further analysis and evaluation.
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54. A method for tracking a changeable parameter of a person, said method comprising:
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imaging the person with an imaging apparatus; downloading images of the person produced by the imaging apparatus to a personal computer of the person; and repeating said imaging and downloading a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide an analysis software with sufficient images to track said at least one changeable parameter by computer analysis of the images via the analysis software executable on the personal computer of the patient. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56)
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57. A method for at least one of detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, or tracking of a disease, said method comprising:
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imaging a patient with a medical imaging apparatus; downloading medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus to a personal computer of the patient; and repeating said imaging and downloading a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide an analysis software with sufficient images to at least one of detect, quantify, stage, report, or track the disease in the patient by computer analysis of the images via the analysis software executable on the personal computer of the patient. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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