Image data management systems
First Claim
1. A system for admitting medical imaging data including image data and associated metadata, the system comprising input means arranged to receive image data from at least one source, a memory having stored therein consistency data defining at least one consistency criterion wherein the consistency data includes reference data and the consistency criterion is a degree of consistency between the imaging data and the reference data, the reference data comprising at least one of reference image data and reference metadata, and processing means arranged to analyze the imaging data to determine whether it meets the consistency criterion, wherein the processing means is arranged to determine a degree of similarity between the imaging data and the reference data using a plurality of properties of the data and, if the degree of similarity is above a predetermined limit, to correct the imaging data using the reference data, the degree of similarity being measured using distance in a multi-dimensional classification space in which each dimension corresponds to a property of the data.
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Abstract
A system for admitting medical imaging data comprising image data and associated metadata comprises input means arranged to received image data from at least one source, a memory having stored therein consistency data defining at least one consistency criterion, and processing means arranged to analyze the imaging data to determined whether it meets the consistency criterion, and if it does not to amend the imaging data so that it does.
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- 1. A system for admitting medical imaging data including image data and associated metadata, the system comprising input means arranged to receive image data from at least one source, a memory having stored therein consistency data defining at least one consistency criterion wherein the consistency data includes reference data and the consistency criterion is a degree of consistency between the imaging data and the reference data, the reference data comprising at least one of reference image data and reference metadata, and processing means arranged to analyze the imaging data to determine whether it meets the consistency criterion, wherein the processing means is arranged to determine a degree of similarity between the imaging data and the reference data using a plurality of properties of the data and, if the degree of similarity is above a predetermined limit, to correct the imaging data using the reference data, the degree of similarity being measured using distance in a multi-dimensional classification space in which each dimension corresponds to a property of the data.
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15. A computer implemented method of admitting data including image data and associated metadata for analysis, the method comprising defining at least one consistency criterion defined by consistency data, analyzing the image data to determine whether it meets the criterion, and if the image data does not meet the consistency criterion, amending the image data so that it does meet the consistency criterion, wherein the consistency data includes reference data and the consistency criterion is a degree of consistency between the image data and the reference data, the reference data comprising at least one of reference image data and reference metadata, wherein analyzing the image data comprises determining a degree of similarity between the image data and the reference data using a plurality of properties of the data and, if the degree of similarity is above a predetermined limit, correcting the image data using the reference data, wherein the step of determining a degree of similarity comprises measuring a distance in a multi-dimensional classification space in which each dimension corresponds to a property of the data.
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