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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1998
Jean-Claude Le Beux, Vincennes, FR;
Jean-Marie Vau, Paris, FR;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to the editing of digital medical images. A digital medical imaging unit normally comprises: a station 10 for entering information relating to a patient Id, a scanner 20 for scanning first medical image media and associated with a means 16, 18, 19 of entering information relating to the medical examination to be processed, an editing station 30 designed to send the digital images to be edited to a printer 50. The only known automatic editing system consists of editing each digital image as soon as they are delivered by the scanner 20 on individual pages of an editing medium. The unit according to the invention comprises on the one hand an editing controller 40 which receives, before the processing of a first medical image medium, information relating to the editing, and on the other hand a counter of medical images processed by the scanner. Application to the automatic editing of several digital medical images on one and the same page of an editing medium.