Endoscope inspection report creating apparatus, creating method of endoscope inspection report and storage medium

• US 8,606,597 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2012
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Evident Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Sato, Saichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jalil, Neveen Abel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tamaru, Michael K
• Application Number:
  US13/402,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20120221569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• 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 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

An endoscope inspection report creating apparatus has a file name reading section that reads file names of a plurality of endoscopic images, a file name of each of the endoscopic images including inspection result information separated with use of a predetermined symbol or character, and a report creating section that creates a predetermined report by writing the inspection result information which is included in each of the file names read by the file name reading section in each predetermined position in the predetermined report by associating the inspection result information with the endoscopic image of each of the read file names.

Claims

1. An endoscope inspection report creating apparatus, said apparatus comprising:

a device configured to store a plurality of endoscopic images included in a plurality of folders divided according to inspection information relating to one or more of;

inspection target information, inspection location information, and inspection purpose information;

a file name reading section that reads a file name of an endoscopic image, wherein the file name of the endoscopic image includes inspection result information;

a report creating section that creates a predetermined report based on the file name read by the file name reading section and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, wherein the report creating section creates the predetermined report by writing, in the predetermined report, the inspection result information that is included in the read file name and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, in association with each other at a first position and a second position, respectively; and

a device configured to output the predetermined report to the user,

wherein the plurality of folders is constructed in a hierarchy and the file name includes one or more folder names to which the file name belongs.

2. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the file name further includes inspection purpose information, and

wherein the report creating section creates the predetermined report by writing in the predetermined report, in addition to the inspection result information at the first position and the endoscopic image at the second position, the inspection purpose information at a third position in association with the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name.

3. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inspection result information comprises information converted into predetermined inspection result inscription information.

4. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the inspection purpose information comprises information converted into predetermined inspection purpose inscription information.

5. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the file name further includes inspection location information, and

wherein the report creating section creates the predetermined report by writing in the predetermined report, in addition to the inspection result information at the first position and the endoscopic image at the second position, the inspection location information at a fourth position in association with the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name.

6. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a file presence/absence determining section that detects presence or absence of a file with respect to each of the plurality of folders,

wherein when the file presence/absence determining section detects absence of the file with respect to a folder, the report creating section writes, in the predetermined report, file absence information corresponding to the folder with respect to which the absence of the file is detected.

7. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the report creating section creates the predetermined report based on a template of the predetermined report.

8. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the template specifies the first, second, and third predetermined positions for the inspection result information, the endoscopic image, and the inspection purpose information, respectively, in the predetermined report.

9. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the file name further includes inspection target information which indicates an inspection target, and which is separated from the inspection purpose information and the inspection result information with use of a predetermined symbol or character, and

wherein the report creating section writes the inspection target information at a fifth position in the predetermined report.

10. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a template storing section that stores a template for the predetermined report, wherein, in the template, a position of a first input column in which the inspection result information included in the file name is to be inputted, and a position of a second input column in which the endoscopic image corresponding to the file name is to be inputted, are specified in advance, and

wherein the report creating section creates the predetermined report by inputting the inspection result information included in the file name read by the file name reading section in the first input column of the template and inputting the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name in the second input column of the template.

11. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the report creating section performs processing to reduce the endoscopic image to a predetermined size before inputting the endoscopic image in the second input column.

12. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus of claim 1, wherein the inspection result information comprises a file mark added to classify images into one or more of:

‘

accept’

, ‘

reject’

, ‘

repair’

, and ‘

re-inspect’

.

13. An endoscope inspection report creating method, said method comprising:

storing a plurality of endoscopic images included in a plurality of folders divided according to inspection information relating to one or more of;

inspection target information, inspection location information, and inspection purpose information;

reading a file name of an endoscopic image, wherein the file name of the endoscopic image includes inspection result information;

creating a predetermined report based on the read file name and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, wherein the predetermined report is created by writing, in the predetermined report, the inspection result information that is included in the read file name and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, in association with each other at a first position and a second position, respectively; and

outputting the predetermined report to the user,

wherein the plurality of folders is constructed in a hierarchy and the file name includes one or more folder names to which the file name belongs.

14. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein the file name further includes inspection purpose information, and

wherein the predetermined report is created by writing in the predetermined report, in addition to the inspection result information at the first position and the endoscopic image at the second position, the inspection purpose information at a third position in association with the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name.

15. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein the inspection result information comprises information converted into predetermined inspection result inscription information.

16. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 14, wherein the inspection purpose information comprises information converted into predetermined inspection purpose inscription information.

17. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 14, wherein the file name further includes inspection location information, and

wherein the predetermined report is created by writing in the predetermined report, in addition to the inspection result information at the first position and the endoscopic image at the second position, the inspection location information at a fourth position in association with the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name.

18. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 14, further comprising detecting a presence or absence of a file with respect to each of the plurality of folders,

wherein when absence of the file with respect to a folder is detected, file absence information corresponding to the folder with respect to which the absence of the file is detected is written in the predetermined report.

19. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 14, wherein the predetermined report is created based on a template of the predetermined report.

20. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 19, wherein the template specifies the first, second, and third predetermined positions for the inspection result information, the endoscopic image, and the inspection purpose information, respectively, in the predetermined report.

21. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein in a template for the predetermined report, a position of a first input column in which the inspection result information included in the read file name is to be inputted, and a position of a second input column in which the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name is to be inputted, are specified in advance, and

wherein the predetermined report is created by inputting the inspection result information included in the read file name in the first input column of the template and inputting the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name in the second input column of the template.

22. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 21, further comprising reducing the endoscopic image to a predetermined size before inputting the endoscopic image in the second input column.

23. The endoscope inspection report creating method of claim 13, wherein the inspection result information comprises a file mark added to classify images into one or more of:

‘

accept’

, ‘

reject’

, ‘

repair’

, and ‘

re-inspect’

.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including having stored thereon a program for creating an endoscope inspection report, the program causing a computer to perform functions comprising:

storing a plurality of endoscopic images included in a plurality of folders divided according to inspection information relating to one or more of;

inspection target information, inspection location information, and inspection purpose information;

reading a file name of an endoscopic image, wherein the file name of the endoscopic image includes inspection result information;

creating a predetermined report based on the read file name and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, wherein the predetermined report is created by writing, in the predetermined report, the inspection result information that is included in the read file name and the endoscopic image corresponding to the read file name, in association with each other at a first position and a second position, respectively; and

outputting the predetermined report to the user,

wherein the plurality of folders is constructed in a hierarchy and the file name includes one or more folder names to which the file name belongs.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the inspection result information comprises a file mark added to classify images into one or more of:

‘

accept’

, ‘

reject’

, ‘

repair’

, and ‘

re-inspect’

.