| 摘要 |
Automated diagnostic decision support (104) in the imaging of potentially-malignant lesions is distributed and streamlined to protect patient confidentiality and to lower bandwidth and transaction costs. At a client hospital site (108a, 108b) , a software agent (132) monitors a database and responsively accesses an image of a lesion and ground truth that the lesion is malignant/benign. After computing at least one feature of the lesion based on the image) , the software agent transmits the feature (s) and ground truth externally from the hospital, to a central diagnostic decision support server . When a client hospital site needs automatic diagnostic support, the lesion feature (s) of the new patient are likewise extracted and transmitted to the external server in a query message. The classifier located on the server will return a diagnosis (benign/malignant) and a confidence level . |
