Information processing system

• US 8,135,826 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2008
• Issued: 03/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Anei, Shin
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, John B.
• Application Number:
  US12/080,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20080250102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,440 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

The present invention provides a technique capable of generating and providing information in which various elements are associated with one another in accordance with situations. An information processing system has a server and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals obtains element associated information obtained by associating elements belonging to items included in a plurality of element items and transmits the element associated information to the server. The server receives the element associated information from each of the terminals. In the case where one or more terminals included in the plurality of terminals satisfies a specific condition, the server generates network information obtained by associating elements belonging to the items between the items on the basis of one or more pieces of element associated information received from the one or more terminals.

Claims

1. An information processing system for supporting medical diagnosis comprising:

a server; and

a plurality of terminals, wherein each of said plurality of terminals includes;

an obtaining unit that generates word/phrase associated information that includes words or phrases, wherein said obtaining unit associates, directly and/or indirectly, said words or said phrases with each other regarding medical diagnosis belonging to a plurality of classifications so as to generate said word/phrase associated information; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting said word/phrase associated information to said server, and

said server includes;

a receiving unit for receiving said word/phrase associated information from each of said plurality of terminals;

a network information generating unit, in the case where one or more terminals included in said plurality of terminals satisfies a specific condition, that generates network information, wherein said network information generating unit associates said words or said phrases respectively between said plurality of classifications on the basis of a plurality of pieces of said word/phrase associated information received from said one or more terminals; and

a recognizing unit for recognizing that each of said plurality of terminals satisfies said specific condition based on a plurality of pieces of said word/phrase associated information transmitted from each of said plurality of terminals to said server.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said server further comprises a distributing unit for distributing said network information to each of said plurality of terminals, and

each of said plurality of terminals further includes a display control unit for performing a control so that a view of information obtained by associating words or phrases belonging to at least two classifications included in said plurality of classifications with each other between said at least two classifications is displayed on a display unit on the basis of entire network information or partial network information included in said network information.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein each of said plurality of terminals further comprises:

an element designating unit for designating, as a report constructing element that constructs report information in accordance with a predetermined report model, one or more of said words or said phrases related to medical diagnosis for each of said at least two classifications included in said view in response to an operation of a user in a state where said view is displayed in said display unit; and

a report generating unit for generating new report information in accordance with said predetermined report model based on said report constructing element.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3, wherein said report information includes radiological report information, and

said plurality of classifications include a region, a remark, and a disease name.

5. The information processing system of claim 1, wherein said word/phrase associated information consists essentially of said words or said phrases.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when a number of said plurality of pieces of said word/phrase associated information sent from one of said plurality of terminals to said server is included in a predetermined value range, said recognizing unit recognizes that said one of said plurality of terminals satisfies said specific condition.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when proportion of said word/phrase associated information including a predetermined word or phrase in said plurality of pieces of word/phrase associated information sent from one of said plurality of terminals to said server is included in a predetermined value range, said recognizing unit recognizes that said one of said plurality of terminals satisfies said specific condition.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said server transmits said network information to one of said plurality of terminals that satisfies said specific condition.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said obtaining unit generates said word/phrase associated information by performing a predetermined information process including a language process on sentence information to extract one or more of said words or said phrases related to medical diagnosis belonging to each of said classifications from said sentence information and associate said extracted one or more of said words or said phrases related to medical diagnosis with each other.

10. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein said language process includes a process based on information obtained by machine learning.

11. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein said sentence information comprises a plurality of words and said extraction of said one or more of said words or phrases related to medical diagnosis is based on a pattern of said plurality of words.

12. An information processing system for supporting medical diagnosis comprising:

a server; and

a plurality of terminals, wherein each of said plurality of terminals includes;

an obtaining unit that generates word/phrase associated information that includes words or phrases, wherein said obtaining unit associates, directly and/or indirectly, said words or said phrases with each other regarding medical diagnosis belonging to a plurality of classifications so as to generate said word/phrase associated information; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting said word/phrase associated information to said server, and

said server includes;

a receiving unit for receiving said word/phrase associated information from each of said plurality of terminals;

a network information generating unit that generates first network information and second network information, wherein said network information generating unit associates said words or phrases respectively between said plurality of classifications based on a first plurality of pieces of word/phrase associated information received from a first class of said plurality of terminals satisfying a first specific condition included in said plurality of terminals, and wherein said network information generating unit associates said words or said phrases respectively between said plurality of classifications on the basis of a second plurality of pieces of word/phrase associated information received from a second class of said plurality of terminals satisfying a second specific condition included in said plurality of terminals; and

a recognizing unit for recognizing that each of said first class and second class of said plurality of terminals satisfies said first or second specific condition, respectively, based on a plurality of pieces of said word/phrase associated information transmitted from each of said plurality of terminals to said server.

13. The information processing system according to claim 12, wherein said server further comprises a distributing unit for distributing said first or second network information to each of said plurality of terminals.

14. The information processing system according to claim 12, wherein said server transmits said first network information to a first terminal satisfying said first specific condition in said plurality of terminals, and transmits said second network information to a second terminal satisfying said second specific information in said plurality of terminals.

15. The information processing system of claim 12, wherein said word/phrase associated information consists essentially of said words or said phrases.