Computerized method and system for associating a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record

• US 7,773,793 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2008
• Issued: 08/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Duello, David M., Humphrey, Louis M., Hoffman, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mariam; Daniel G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woldemariam; Aklilu k
• Application Number:
  US12/048,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20080166031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 382/128, 382/131, 382/129, 705/3, 600/407
• US Class Current: 382/129
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 20/00 ICT specially adapted for functional genomics or proteomics, e.g. genotype-phenotype associations
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The method may further include storing the first portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record and/or associating and storing a common portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record, the common portion consisting of data common to each person whose data is shown on the image. In one embodiment, the method may further include modifying the received diagnostic image and associating and storing the modified image with an electronic record. A computer system for associating at least a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record is also provided.

Claims

1. A method in a computing environment for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with at least one electronic medical record, the method comprising:

receiving the diagnostic image in an electronic format, the diagnostic image including data particular to at least two persons, wherein the diagnostic image is an image of a gel result;

when the diagnostic image is determined to be skewed in orientation, rotating the diagnostic image to a proper alignment;

receiving gel loading data associated with the diagnostic image;

based on the gel loading data, identifying common lanes of the diagnostic image;

based on the gel loading data, identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a second of the at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic image comprises parsing the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the second of the at least two persons from the diagnostic image to create the modified image, the modified image comprising the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the first of the at least two persons; and

storing the modified image with an electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the diagnostic image comprises at least one of capturing the diagnostic image or importing the diagnostic image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the rotating of the diagnostic image is automatically performed by a computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising parsing all lanes other than the identified common lanes of the diagnostic image to create a common image portion, the common image portion consisting of data common to each of the at least two persons.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the data common to each of the at least two persons comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising storing the common image portion with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

aggregating the modified image and the common image portion to create a hybrid image; and

storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the modified image comprises data particular to the first of the at least two persons and the common lanes of the diagnostic image.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the common lanes of the diagnostic image comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the common lanes of the diagnostic image represent data which is common to all persons having data represented on the diagnostic image.

12. A method in a computing environment for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with at least one electronic medical record, the method comprising one or more computers implementing in the following steps:

receiving the diagnostic image in an electronic format, the diagnostic image including data particular to at least two persons, wherein the diagnostic image is an image of a gel result;

when the diagnostic image is determined to be skewed in orientation, rotating the diagnostic image in proper alignment;

receiving gel loading data associated with the diagnostic image;

based on the gel loading data, identifying common lanes of the diagnostic image;

based on the gel loading data, identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a second of the at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic image comprises obscuring the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the second of the at least two persons to create the modified image, the modified image comprises the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the first of the at least two persons; and

storing the modified image with an electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the rotating of the diagnostic image is automatically performed by a computing system.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising obscuring all lanes other than the identified common lanes of the diagnostic image to create a common image portion, the common image portion consisting of data common to each of the at least two persons.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the data common to each of the at least two persons comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, or a negative control.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the common image portion with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

aggregating the modified image and the common image portion to create a hybrid image; and

storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising storing the hybrid image with the electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the modified image comprises the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the first of the at least two persons and the common lanes of the diagnostic image.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the data common to each of the at least two persons comprises at least one of a molecular weight marker, a positive control, and a negative control.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the common lanes of the diagnostic image represent data which is common to the at least two persons.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed by a computing system having a processor and memory, cause the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a diagnostic image, of a gel, in an electronic format that is readable by the computing system, the diagnostic image including data particular to at least two persons;

when the diagnostic image is determined to be skewed in orientation, rotating the diagnostic image to a proper alignment;

receiving gel loading data associated with the diagnostic image, wherein the gel loading data indicates which lanes of the diagnostic image are indicative of common data and which lane is particular to an individual person;

based on the gel loading data, identifying common lanes of the diagnostic image, wherein the common lanes include data common to the two or more persons having data represented on the diagnostic image;

based on the gel loading data, identifying at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a first of the at least two persons and at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to a second of the at least two persons;

modifying the diagnostic image to create a modified image, wherein modifying the diagnostic image comprises parsing all data other than the at least one lane of the diagnostic image particular to the first of the at least two persons from the diagnostic image;

to create the modified image;

modifying the diagnostic image to create a common image, wherein modifying the diagnostic image comprises parsing all data other than the common lanes of the diagnostic image from the diagnostic image to create the common image;

aggregating the modified image and the common image portion to create a hybrid image; and

storing the hybrid image with an electronic medical record for the first of the at least two persons.