GENERATING A QUERY

• US 20140067847A1
• Filed: 09/06/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: BARBIERI, MAURO, KORST, JOHANNES HENRICUS MARIA, DADLANI MAHTANI, PAVANKUMAR MURLI, ALEKSOVSKI, ZARKO, PETERS, MARC ANDRE
• Granted Patent: US 10,127,271 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/242 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3338 Query expansion
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies

Abstract

A system for generating a query comprises a term unit (1) for extracting a term from at least one input document (51), to obtain an extracted term. A category unit (2) is arranged for associating the extracted term with a category that is semantically related with the extracted term. A query unit (3) is arranged for generating a query in dependence on the extracted term and the category. The query unit (3) comprises an additional term unit (4) for generating at least one additional search term based on the category, and the query unit (3) is arranged for including the additional search term in the query. A submit unit (5) is arranged for submitting the query to at least one search engine (50), to obtain a plurality of found documents.

Claims

1. A system for generating a query, comprising

a term unit (1) for extracting a term from at least one input document (51), to obtain an extracted term;

a category unit (2) for associating the extracted term with a category that is semantically related with the extracted term;

a query unit (3) for generating a query in dependence on the extracted term and the category.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the query unit (3) comprises an additional term unit (4) for generating at least one additional search term based on the category, and wherein the query unit (3) is arranged for including the additional search term in the query.

3. The system according to claim 1, comprising a submit unit (5) for submitting the query to at least one search engine (50), to obtain a plurality of found documents.

4. The system according to claim 3, comprising a comparator (6) for comparing at least one found document of the plurality of found documents with said at least one input document, to determine a value representing a relevance of the found document in respect of said at least one input document.

5. The system according to claim 3, further comprising a result filter (7) for selecting at least one document of the plurality of found documents, based on a clinical pathway of a patient associated with said at least one input document.

6. The system according to claim 3, comprising a complexity unit (8) for determining a complexity of at least one of the found documents.

7. The system according to claim 1, further comprising

a case unit (9) for determining first case information associated with said at least one input document, wherein the first case information relates to a first case;

a similarity unit (10) for determining second case information, wherein the second case information relates to a second case, wherein the second case is similar to the first case based on the first case information, the second case information, and predetermined similarity criteria; and

wherein the query unit (3) is arranged for generating the query further based on the second case information.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one input document (51) comprises a medical report or is part of an electronic medical record of a patient.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the query generator (3) is arranged for generating the query to search educational material to educate a patient regarding the patient'"'"'s medical condition.

10. A workstation comprising the system according to claim 1.

11. A method of generating a query, comprising

extracting (201) a term from at least one document in dependence on an ontology, to obtain an extracted term;

associating (202) the extracted term with a category that is semantically related with the extracted term, based on the ontology; and

generating (203) a query in dependence on the extracted term and the category.

12. A computer program product comprising instructions for causing a processing unit to perform the method according to claim 11.