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

• US 9,442,943 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Evident Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Sato, Saichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kerzhner, Aleksandr
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tamaru, Michael K
• Application Number:
  US14/056,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20140046941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 comprising:

a folder creating section that accepts input from a user to create folders for storing an endoscopic image of an inspection target and folder names of the folders, a plurality of the folders being created in a memory in a hierarchical structure, and the folder names including inspection information related to endoscopic inspection of the inspection target;

a file name creating section that creates a file name of an endoscopic image, the file name including inspection result information of the endoscopic image and the folder name of a storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored, the storage destination folder being specified by the user from among the plurality of folders, and the inspection result information being related to an inspection result of the endoscopic inspection of the inspection target;

a storage section that stores the endoscopic image in the storage destination folder specified by the user;

a file name reading section that reads the folder name and the inspection result information from the file name of an endoscopic image for creating an inspection report;

an automatic report creating section that creates the inspection report by writing the folder name, the inspection result information, and the endoscopic image in a predetermined report template format, the folder name and the inspection result information written in the inspection report being the folder name and the inspection result information included in the file name of the endoscopic image read by the file name reading section, and the endoscopic image written in the inspection report being the endoscopic image the file name of which is read by the file name reading section; and

an outputting section configured to output the inspection report created by the automatic report creating section to the user.

2. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an inspection result information setting section that performs control to include the inspection result information in the file name,

wherein the storage section stores the endoscopic image in the storage destination folder specified by the user after the inspection result information is included in the file name by the inspection result information setting section.

3. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the inspection result information setting section performs the control to include the inspection result information in the file name after the storage destination folder, in which the endoscopic image is to be stored, is determined.

4. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the file name creating section creates the file name by adding the inspection result information to the folder name of the storage destination folder after the storage destination folder, in which the endoscopic image is to be stored, is determined.

5. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a folder information displaying section that displays a folder name of a folder which is a candidate for storing the endoscopic image when the user specifies the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored.

6. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the folder information displaying section displays the folder name of the folder which is the candidate for storing the endoscopic image in a state in which the endoscopic image is displayed.

7. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the file name further includes a folder name of a folder in an upper hierarchy to which the storage destination folder belongs;

the file name reading section further reads the folder name of the folder in the upper hierarchy; and

the automatic report creating section, when creating the inspection report, further writes the folder name of the folder in the upper hierarchy, which is read by the file name reading section, in the predetermined report template format.

8. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the folder name of the folder in the upper hierarchy is included in the file name so as to be positioned prior to the folder name of the folder in which the endoscopic image is stored.

9. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined report template format of the inspection report is a template in a form of a table.

10. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the automatic report creating section converts the inspection result information into predetermined inspection result inscription information and writes the inspection result inscription information in the predetermined report template format.

11. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined report template format is a format defining contents to be included in the inspection report for each of the folders.

12. The endoscope inspection report creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined report template format is a format from among a plurality of formats each defining contents to be included in the inspection report for a respective one of the folders, and is a format of the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image file is stored.

13. An endoscope inspection report creating method, comprising:

accepting input from a user to create folders for storing an endoscopic image of an inspection target and to create folder names of the folders, a plurality of the folders being created in a memory in a hierarchical structure, and the folder names including inspection information related to endoscopic inspection of the inspection target;

accepting input from the user to specify a storage destination folder in which an endoscopic image is to be stored;

creating a file name of the endoscopic image, the file name including inspection result information of the endoscopic image and the folder name of the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored, the storage destination folder being specified by the user from among the plurality of folders, and the inspection result information being related to an inspection result of the endoscopic inspection of the inspection target;

storing the endoscopic image in the storage destination folder specified by the user;

reading the folder name and the inspection result information from the file name of the endoscopic image for creating an inspection report;

automatically creating the inspection report by writing the read folder name, the read inspection result information, and the endoscopic image in a predetermined report template format, the folder name and the inspection result information written in the inspection report being the folder name and the inspection result information included in the file name of the read endoscopic image; and

outputting the automatically created inspection report to the user.

14. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, further comprising performing control to include the inspection result information in the file name,

wherein the endoscopic image is stored in the storage destination folder after performing the control to include the inspection result information in the file name.

15. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 14, wherein performing the control to include the inspection result information in the file name is executed after the storage destination folder is specified.

16. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein accepting the input from the user to specify the storage destination folder includes displaying a folder name of a candidate for a folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored when the user specifies the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored.

17. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein accepting the input from the user to specify the storage destination folder includes displaying the endoscopic image and a folder name of a candidate for a folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored when the user specifies the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image is to be stored.

18. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein:

the file name further includes a folder name of a folder in an upper hierarchy to which the storage destination folder belongs;

reading the folder name and the inspection result information from the file name further includes reading the folder name of the folder in the upper hierarchy; and

automatically creating the inspection report further includes writing the read folder name of the folder in the upper hierarchy in the predetermined report template format.

19. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined report template format of the inspection report is a template in a form of a table.

20. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein automatically creating the inspection report further includes converting the inspection result information into predetermined inspection result inscription information and writing the inspection result inscription information in the predetermined report template format.

21. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined report template format is a format defining contents to be included in the inspection report for each of the folders.

22. The endoscope inspection report creating method according to claim 13, wherein the predetermined report template format is a format from among a plurality of formats each defining contents to be included in the inspection report for a respective one of the folders, and is a format of the storage destination folder in which the endoscopic image file is stored.