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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2005
Jimmy R. Roehrig, Aptos, CA (US);
Julian Marshall, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jimmy R. Roehrig, Aptos, CA (US);
Julian Marshall, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
Managing a patient worklist in a radiology environment is described, the patient worklist identifying a plurality of medical imaging cases to be reviewed at a radiology review workstation. For each case, a set of CAD-computed metrics is received, the CAD-computed metrics being derived from an operation of a CAD processing algorithm on that case. According to a preferred embodiment, the cases in the patient worklist are sorted according to at least one of the CAD-computed metrics. The reviewing radiologist is provided with greater insight into, and control over, patient workflow at the radiology review workstation. Also described is a graphical user interface for easy user customization of the case sorting criteria. Examples of case sorting criteria include a number of CAD markers per case metric, a maximum suspiciousness metric, and an anatomical complexity metric.