Hybrid medical image processing
First Claim
1. A hybrid medical image processing system, comprising:
- a set of servers for receiving medical image data that has not been substantively processed into a medical image from a plurality of medical imaging devices and storing the medical image data in a server database, at least one medical imaging device of the plurality of medical imaging devices being of a different type from at least one other medical imaging device of the plurality of medical imaging devices, the set of servers comprising a server application, a medical image query application, and a medical image transfer application; and
a set of processing systems for processing the stored medical image data into the medical image, the set of processing systems comprising a cell application, a command dispatcher, a processing engine library, and a medical image transfer library.
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Abstract
The present invention uses a common, hybrid system platform to provide a generalized medical image processing system that can handle the existing medical image application as it is and route the compute intensive medical image processing to a multi-core processor/processing system. The invention allows the processing platform to be shared among healthcare system such as mammography, X-ray, CT Scan MRI, two-photon, laser microscopy, digital pathology, etc. It also allows the processing platform to deliver medical images to a variety of client devices, such as a desktop computer or a handheld device, through the network without high-performance graphical display capabilities because the rendering of the medical images is performed on the Cell BE based platform of the invention.
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16 Claims
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1. A hybrid medical image processing system, comprising:
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a set of servers for receiving medical image data that has not been substantively processed into a medical image from a plurality of medical imaging devices and storing the medical image data in a server database, at least one medical imaging device of the plurality of medical imaging devices being of a different type from at least one other medical imaging device of the plurality of medical imaging devices, the set of servers comprising a server application, a medical image query application, and a medical image transfer application; and a set of processing systems for processing the stored medical image data into the medical image, the set of processing systems comprising a cell application, a command dispatcher, a processing engine library, and a medical image transfer library. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A hybrid medical image processing method, comprising:
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receiving commands from a set of functional units on a set of processing systems; sending at least a subset of the commands to a set of servers; receiving medical image data from the set of servers, the medical image data having been received from at least one medical imaging device and having not been substantively processed into a medical image; assigning tasks for processing the medical image data to a set of processing engines; processing the medical image data into the medical image with the set of processing engines; and sending results of the processing to the set of functional units. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. A program product stored on at least one computer readable storage medium for processing medical images, the at least one computer readable medium comprising program code for causing at least one computer system to:
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receive commands from a set of functional units on a set of processing systems; send at least a subset of the commands to a set of servers; receive medical image data from the set of servers, the medical image data having been received from at least one medical imaging device and having not been substantively processed into a medical image; assign tasks for processing the medical image data to a set of processing engines; process the medical image data into the medical image with the set of processing engines; and send results of the processing to the set of functional units. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for deploying a hybrid medical image processing system, comprising:
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deploying a computer infrastructure having at least one computer device being operable to; receive commands from a set of functional units on a set of processing systems; send at least a subset of the commands to a set of servers; receive medical image data from the set of servers, the medical image data having been received from at least one imaging medical device and having not been substantively processed into a medical image; assign tasks for processing the medical image data to a set of processing engines; process the medical image data into the medical image with the set of processing engines; and send results of the processing to the set of functional units.
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