Report generation support system

• US 8,589,379 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kondo, Takashi, Terai, Koichi, Hirasawa, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US13/204,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20120041949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• Field of Search: 707/708, 705 2- 3, 704/235, 714/38.1, 345/440, 382/128, 382/132, 715/200, 715206-208
• US Class Current: 707/708
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The report generation support system according to the embodiment comprises an input history recording part, operation history recording part, selection part, extraction part, and a display controller. The input history recording part records findings input at the time of generating a medical report and, by linking with an input start time and/or finish time of the findings. The operation history recording part records, as an operation history, the type of operation conducted on an image at the time of generating a report and the time when the operation was conducted by linking with the operated image. The selection part selects at least a part of findings in a report. The extraction part extracts a focus image in the selected findings, based on an input start time and/or finish time of the findings corresponding to the selected location, and the contents of the operation history of the corresponding time.

Claims

1. A report generation support system comprising:

a medical image generator configured to generate a medical report together with entry of an operation on a medical image among a plurality of medical images;

an input history recording part configured to record, as an input history, findings input at a time of generating the medical report by linking with at least one of an input start time and a finish time of the findings;

an operation history recording part configured to record, as an operation history, a type of operation conducted with respect to the medical image operated at the time of generating said medical report and a time when the operation is conducted by linking with the operated image;

a selection part configured to select, based on instructions input from an input part, at least a part of the findings in the medical report;

an extraction part configured to extract a focus image in the findings selected by said selection part from among the plurality of medical images, based on at least one of the input start time and the finish time of findings corresponding to a location selected by said selection part and contents of said operation history of the corresponding time; and

a display controller configured to cause a display to display said focus image.

2. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein said input history recording part is configured to record, as the input history, the location in the medical report of the findings that is input at the time of generating said medical report by linking at least one of the input start time and the finish time of the findings.

3. The report generation support system according to claim 1, further comprising a voice input part configured to receive input of a voice of said findings at the time of generating said medical report, wherein

said input history recording part is configured to record, with respect to the findings of the medical report generated based on said voice as an input history by linking with at least one of an input start time and a finish time linked to the voice similar to the findings.

4. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said operation history include a weight with respect to each type of operation conducted at a time corresponding to at least one of said input start time and said input finish time, and the time when each of the operations was conducted.

5. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said operation history include a weight with respect to each type of operation conducted at a time corresponding to at least one of said input start time and said input finish time, or the time when each of the operations was conducted.

6. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein said extraction part is configured to calculate a degree of focus indicating a degree of linkage with the findings selected by said selecting part based on said operation history, and extract said focus image based on the degree of focus.