Method and system for transfer of cardiac medical image data files
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1. A computer implemented method for remote diagnosis of coronary artery disease, the method comprising:
- imaging a heart of a patient of a hospital emergency department using a scanning multi-detector computed tomography device at an imaging location, the computed tomography device generating heart image data including three dimensional cardiac image data of a plurality of coronary arteries of the patient;
storing the image data in a server;
processing the image data with a computer to select a subset of the image data for transmission to a remote location, said processing including;
selecting motion free cardiac image data;
subsequently segmenting the motion free image data to select coronary artery image data from the stored image data to extract the selected coronary artery image data from the heart image data;
compressing the coronary artery extracted image data including lossless compression of the selected coronary artery image data to generate compressed coronary artery image data;
transmitting the compressed coronary artery image data to a remote location;
recording a remote diagnosis of the coronary arteries of the patient to store data indicating coronary artery disease of the patient;
storing the transmitted compressed coronary artery image data; and
wirelessly transmitting the remote diagnosis to a display device.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided which allows for the transfer of an image data file such as a medical image data file. Device scan slices of an object are acquired per time point. A portion of the device scan slices of the object, e.g., live body organ, per time point which illustrate a change in the object from a previous time point is selected. At least one optical temporal image in spiral fashion per time interval is formed from the selected portion. The at least one optical temporal image is transmittable as an image data file to a location.
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1. A computer implemented method for remote diagnosis of coronary artery disease, the method comprising:
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imaging a heart of a patient of a hospital emergency department using a scanning multi-detector computed tomography device at an imaging location, the computed tomography device generating heart image data including three dimensional cardiac image data of a plurality of coronary arteries of the patient; storing the image data in a server; processing the image data with a computer to select a subset of the image data for transmission to a remote location, said processing including; selecting motion free cardiac image data; subsequently segmenting the motion free image data to select coronary artery image data from the stored image data to extract the selected coronary artery image data from the heart image data; compressing the coronary artery extracted image data including lossless compression of the selected coronary artery image data to generate compressed coronary artery image data; transmitting the compressed coronary artery image data to a remote location; recording a remote diagnosis of the coronary arteries of the patient to store data indicating coronary artery disease of the patient; storing the transmitted compressed coronary artery image data; and wirelessly transmitting the remote diagnosis to a display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computed tomography system for the remote evaluation of cardiac medical imaging data, comprising:
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a computed tomography (CT) imaging device for imaging a patient of a hospital emergency department, the CT imaging device generating cardiac image data of a heart of the patient; a processor connected to the CT imaging device, the processor being configured to select a portion of the cardiac image data which illustrate change in the heart from a previous time, the processor being operative to compress the cardiac image data by forming a compressed image data file from the selected portion of the cardiac image data and segmenting the compressed cardiac image data to extract at least one coronary artery image data file from the cardiac image data; and a wireless network connected to the processor wherein at least one coronary artery image data file is transmitted to a remote location for diagnosis of coronary artery disease wherein a diagnosis is transmitted by wireless transmission to an emergency department display device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of imaging a heart of a patient to diagnose coronary artery disease, the method comprising:
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imaging a heart of a patient with a scanning multi-detector computed tomography device connected to a hospital server; generating an image data file of the heart that includes three dimensional coronary artery image data of the heart; processing the image data file to reduce file size and thereby generate a reduced data image file that includes a-segmented image data of at least one coronary artery that has been extracted from the image data file of the heart; sending the reduced data image file including the extracted image data of the at least one coronary artery to a remote location with the hospital server; electronically storing a coronary artery disease diagnosis associated with the reduced data image file of the at least one coronary artery; and transmitting the stored diagnosis and the reduced data image file of the at least one coronary artery by wireless communication to a wireless display device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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