Computer-aided analysis and rendering of medical images using user-defined rules
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of automated analysis of medical images, the method comprising:
- by one or more processors executing program instructions;
accessing a set of medical image data;
automatically analyzing the set of medical image data by a CAP action to determine a value of an attribute of the set of medical image data;
accessing a user-defined rule indicating an association between the value of the attribute and a desired image slice thickness;
determining whether the set of medical image data is formatted according to the desired image slice thickness indicated by the user-defined rule; and
in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of medical image data is not formatted according to the desired image slice thickness rendering at least the portion of the set of medical image data as a series of medical images having the desired slice thickness.
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Abstract
Systems and methods that allow transfer and display rules to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, device, and/or image/series characteristic, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices and/or based on other characteristics, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images and/or image data are analyzed, downloaded, viewed, stored, rendered, processed, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to medical image data. The system and methods may include image analysis, image rendering, image transformation, image enhancement, and/or other aspects to enable efficient and customized review of medical images.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of automated analysis of medical images, the method comprising:
by one or more processors executing program instructions; accessing a set of medical image data; automatically analyzing the set of medical image data by a CAP action to determine a value of an attribute of the set of medical image data; accessing a user-defined rule indicating an association between the value of the attribute and a desired image slice thickness; determining whether the set of medical image data is formatted according to the desired image slice thickness indicated by the user-defined rule; and in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of medical image data is not formatted according to the desired image slice thickness rendering at least the portion of the set of medical image data as a series of medical images having the desired slice thickness. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system comprising:
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a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith; and one or more processors configured to execute the program instructions to cause the one or more processors to; access a set of medical image data; automatically analyze the set of medical image data by a CAP action to determine a value of an attribute of the set of medical image data; access a user-defined rule indicating an association between the value of the attribute and a desired image slice thickness; determine whether the set of medical image data is formatted according to the desired image slice thickness indicated by the user-defined rule; and in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of medical image data is not formatted according to the desired image slice thickness render at least the portion of the set of medical image data as a series of medical images having the desired slice thickness. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to:
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access a set of medical image data; automatically analyze the set of medical image data by a CAP action to determine a value of an attribute of the set of medical image data; access a user-defined rule indicating an association between the value of the attribute and a desired image slice thickness; determine whether the set of medical image data is formatted according to the desired image slice thickness indicated by the user-defined rule; and in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of medical image data is not formatted according to the desired image slice thickness render at least the portion of the set of medical image data as a series of medical images having the desired slice thickness. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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