General Electric Company

John David Hoford

Gopal Biligeri Avinash

Cheryl Ruth Jones

Tabb A Patz

Geoffrey Oliver Kelly

Mark Joseph Benson

Gopal Sundaramoorthy

David Thomas Gering

David Matthew Deaven

William Murray Stoval, Iii

Musodiq O Bello

Robert A Buchanan

Aparna Nittala

Faraz Azhar Ali

Martin Kalani McKenna

Pawan P Singh

William Murray Stoval

Martin Kalani Mckeena

Tabb Alan Patz

A medical imaging system capable of acquiring medical imaging data of a patient includes a console coupled to the system, the console comprising a computer programmed to enable a first user to perform a first task on the system via the console, and enable a second user to perform a second task simultaneously with the first task via a remote device.

System and method for multi-tasking of a medical imaging system

A modular control system including a plurality of individual touch screen devices, each touch screen device including a display unit, a touch input, a computing device, a network connection, and a programming logic for controlling a remote system and displaying a status of the remote system on the touch screen device, the remote system having network connectivity to enable the remote system to exchange information with and respond to instructions from the touch screen devices, the touch screen devices configured for automatic self-synchronization based on a status of the remote system or a status of at least one of the touch screen devices.

Dynamic modular control system

A technique for selecting portions of a multi-resolution medical image data set to be stored and the portions of the multi-resolution medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based on the clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image data. The clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image is used to select a segmentation algorithm to segment the image data into several regions based on their relevance to the purpose for obtaining the image data. A mask is created from the segmented data. The mask is used to assign data compression quality factors to corresponding regions in the image data. The image data in each region is compressed based on their assigned quality factor. The image data that is highly relevant is compressed with lossless data compression. The image data in regions of lesser relevance are compressed with lossy data compression. The image data that is of no relevance for the purpose that the image data was obtained is discarded.

Content-based image compression

A computer system includes a display and a processor. The processor operable to implement a user interface on the display. The user interface including a plurality of program controls for initiating processing tasks. The processor is operable to, responsive to an activation of a selected program control, place an I/O control associated with the selected program control proximate the selected program control to allow visual association between the I/O control and the selected program control.

Method and apparatus for arranging program and I/O controls

A programmable, medical imaging system which incorporates algorithms for enhancing the usability of the system for clinicians is described. With respect to programmability, and in one aspect, the present invention relates to a programmable system which includes a learn mode usable for script generation. In the learn mode, a user can rehearse a sequence of actions and save those actions to be replayed later. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to an algorithm which provides a non-blocking, synchronous interface to an underlying asynchronous architecture. Generally, the algorithm decouples the client-server portion of the application from the synchronous development environment. Using this algorithm, a programmer can develop a non-blocking, highly interactive, client-server application without having to resort to asynchronous programming techniques. In yet another aspect, the present invention is directed to an overlap detection and correction algorithm which, in one form is integrated into a review template editor for creating review templates. The overlap detection and correction algorithm, in one embodiment, is a one or two boundary rectangular cell overlap detection and correction algorithm.

Systems, methods and apparatus for generating and controlling display of

Learn mode script generation in a medical imaging system

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