Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Icad, Inc.

Satoshi Kasai

David S Harding

Jeffrey C Wehnes

James H Pike

Ronald Larcom

Shinsuke Katsuhara

Taisuke Akahori

Sridharan Kamalakanan

Muhammad F Sabir

A method for managing a patient medical case. The method includes: identifying, within a patient medical image of the patient medical case, a first abnormal image region; retrieving, from a reference medical case (RMC) repository and before the patient medical image is displayed to a user, a first set of reference medical cases including reference medical images matching the first abnormal image region; displaying, within a GUI, the patient medical image and at least one of the first set of reference medical cases to the user; receiving, from the user after the patient medical image is displayed, a selection of a second abnormal image region within the patient medical image; retrieving, from the RMC repository, a second set of reference medical cases including reference medical images matching the second abnormal image region; and displaying, with the GUI, at least one of the second set of reference medical cases.

Medical imaging reference retrieval

A method for managing a patient medical case. The method includes: obtaining the patient medical case including a patient medical image and a patient medical record; identifying, within the patient medical image, an abnormal image region; searching a reference medical case database using the abnormal image region as a search criterion; retrieving, from the reference medical case database, reference medical cases including reference medical images matching the abnormal image region and reference medical records corresponding to the reference medical images; receiving, from a user, a selection of a reference medical case of the reference medical cases including a reference medical record and a reference medical diagnosis; and modifying the patient medical record based on the reference medical record and the reference medical diagnosis in the reference medical case.

Medical imaging reference retrieval and report generation

A patient identification method and related system use dynamic medical images of a patient, such as dynamic chest x-ray images, to generate pulsation and/or perfusion signals and use them for patient identification. A first pulsation and/or perfusion signal acquired from a current patient is compared to a previously stored second pulsation and/or perfusion signal associated with a known patient, to determine whether the current patient is the same as the known patient. At least one of the first and second pulsation and/or perfusion signals is generated from dynamic medical images. In some embodiments, one of the first and second pulsation and/or perfusion signals is pulsation-like signal obtained from electrocardiogram (ECG). When the current patient is determined to be different from the known patient, warning signals can be generated, and further steps can be taken to prevent medical procedures being conducted on the wrong patient.

Patient identification using dynamic medical images

A method for reducing a linear artifact in a medical image. The method includes identifying, in the medical image, a region occupied by the linear artifact and isolating, in the region, a signal intensity component attributed to the linear artifact from an overall signal intensity of the region. The method further includes obtaining a corrected signal intensity by subtracting, in the region, the signal intensity component attributed to the linear artifact from the overall signal intensity of the region, and, after obtaining the corrected signal intensity, correcting a contrast in the region to match the contrast in surrounding regions.

Processing for creating a transmission image without artificial noises

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