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Image data management systems

  • US 8,625,866 B2
  • Filed: 07/24/2009
  • Issued: 01/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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