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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2010
Manoj Mathew, Tustin, CA (US);
Manoj Mathew, Tustin, CA (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Transmission of a medical image such as a DICOM-formatted image which is formatted into a plurality of data sets including a data set for the image data and a data set for embedded information which identifies the nature of the medical image. A region of interest in the medical image is identified automatically by using the embedded information. Image data for the region of interest is transmitted, and image data for a region other than the region of interest is transmitted. Transmission of the image data for the entirety of the region of interest is completed before transmission of the image data for the entirety of the region other than the region of interest.