Mammography information system

摘要

A method and system for analyzing and retrieving tissue abnormality tracking data, providing a tool for a radiologist that includes a report summarizing the statistical frequency of diagnosed patients, both locally and nationally, with tissue region-of-interest classifications similar to the tissue images taken of the anatomy of an individual patient. In one embodiment, a computer aided diagnostic program can suggest region-of-interest attributes and classifications for user review. In one embodiment, user can select a seed area for computer aided diagnostic program analysis, the CAD analysis can suggest region-of-interest attributes and classifications. In yet another embodiment, the region-of-interest abnormality attributes suggested by the computer aided diagnostic program can be stored and compared with the user selected abnormality attributes and classifications. In one embodiment the images are of human breast tissue.

主权项

1. A configurable mammography diagnostic system, comprising:
a plurality of electronic displays, at least one of the plurality of electronic displays configured to display a breast tissue image; a graphical user interface presented on at least one of the plurality of electronic displays and including:
a breast tissue image on which at least one region of interest in the breast tissue image can be indicated,a plurality of possible characteristics from a predetermined medical lexicon according to which an automated categorization of a region of interest in the breast tissue image can be indicated, wherein each of the plurality of possible characteristics in the predetermined medical lexicon is associated with a unique alphanumeric value, anda profiler display configured to present statistical information related to a comparison of the automated categorization with a database of existing categorizations of a plurality of existing breast tissue images, each of the plurality of existing breast tissue images having been diagnosed; and a processing engine including a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tool configured to identify the at least one region of interest in the breast tissue image, to provide the automated categorization of the region of interest, to present the automated categorization of the region of interest via the graphical user interface, and configured to dynamically update the profiler display based on a change in one or more of the plurality of possible characteristics and the unique alphanumeric value associated with the changed characteristic of the region of interest.