REPORT GENERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM

• US 20120041949A1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kondo, Takashi, Terai, Koichi, HIRASAWA, Yosuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,589,379 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The report generation support system according to the embodiment comprises an input history recording part, operation history recording part, selection part, extraction part, and a display controller. The input history recording part records findings input at the time of generating a medical report and, by linking with an input start time and/or finish time of the findings. The operation history recording part records, as an operation history, the type of operation conducted on an image at the time of generating a report and the time when the operation was conducted by linking with the operated image. The selection part selects at least a part of findings in a report. The extraction part extracts a focus image in the selected findings, based on an input start time and/or finish time of the findings corresponding to the selected location, and the contents of the operation history of the corresponding time.

Claims

1. A report generation support system comprising:

an input history recording part that records, as an input history, findings input at the time of generating a medical report and, by linking with at least one of an input start time and a finish time of the findings,

an operation history recording part that records, as an operation history, the type of operation conducted with respect to an image operated at the time of generating said medical report and the time when the operation is conducted by linking with the operated image,

a selection part that selects, based on instructions input from an input part, at least a part of findings in a medical report,

an extraction part that extracts a focus image in the findings selected by said selection part, based on at least one of an input start time and a finish time of findings corresponding to a location selected by said selection part and the contents of said operation history of the corresponding time, and

a display controller that causes a display to display said focus image.

2. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein;

said input history recording part records, as an input history, an location in a medical report of the findings that is input at the time of generating said medical report and, by linking, at least one of an input start time and a finish time of the findings.

3. The report generation support system according to claim 1, comprising a voice input part that receives input of a voice of said findings at the time of generating said medical report, wherein;

said Input history recording part records, with respect to the findings of the medical report generated based on said voice as an input history by linking with at least one of an input start time and a finish time linked to the voice similar to the findings.

4. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein;

the contents of said operation history include a weight with respect to each type of operation conducted at a time corresponding to at least one of said input start time and input finish time, and the time when each of the operations was conducted.

5. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein;

the contents of said operation history include a weight with respect to each type of operation conducted at a time corresponding to at least one of said input start time and input finish time, or the time when each of the operations was conducted.

6. The report generation support system according to claim 1, wherein;

said extraction part calculates the degree of focus indicating the degree of linkage with the findings selected by said selecting part based on said operation history, and extracts said focus image based on the degree of focus.