Apparatus, method, system, and program for creating and displaying medical reports

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10734102-B2
Application number	US-201615221022-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2016
Priority date	Jul 31, 2015
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

A medical report creation apparatus and method includes creating a medical report including a plurality of sets of information that is the object of diagnosis and association information indicating associations among a plurality of items included in each of the plurality of sets of information, specifying one item out of a plurality of items included in each of a plurality of sets of information included in a previously created medical report, identifying, based on association information by which the specified one item is associated, at least one item of the plurality of items included in the previously created medical report in response to specifying the one item, and displaying the at least one identified item for editing the medical report.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory storing a program; and
one or more processors which, by executing the program, function as:
a creating unit configured to create a medical report including a plurality of sets of information that are an object of diagnosis and association information indicating associations among a plurality of items included in the plurality of sets of information, wherein items in the plurality of items include images, information of findings, information of diagnosis, and information of treatment, wherein the association information describes respective associations between the images, the information of findings, the information of diagnosis, and the information of treatment, wherein the respective associations include one or more of correspondence associations, causal associations, and exclusive associations, and wherein the medical report is stored in one or more storage units;
a specification unit configured to specify one item, in response to receiving a user instruction from an input device that indicates the one item, out of a plurality of items included in a plurality of sets of information included in a first medical report stored in the one or more storage units, wherein the first medical report includes respective association information;
an identifying unit configured to identify, based on the association information included in the first medical report, at least one associated item, of the plurality of items included in the first medical report, associated with the one item specified by the specification unit in response to specification by the specification unit;
a duplication processing unit configured to duplicate the one item specified by the specification unit and the at least one associated item identified by the identifying unit in a second medical report in response to identifying by the identifying unit, wherein the second medical report includes respective association information, and wherein the second medical report is stored in the one or more storage units; and
a display control unit configured to display the second medical report, including items duplicated by the duplication processing unit and the respective association information of the second medical report, for interpretation or diagnosis and to change a display layout of the second medical report between a first layout that shows associations defined by association information of the second report and a second layout that does not show the associations defined by the association information of the second report.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the display control unit displays information including predetermined attributes included in the at least one item identified by the identifying unit and information not including the predetermined attributes in a distinguishable manner.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined attributes include at least one of information relating to size of a lesion that is the object of diagnosis, information relating to volume of a body organ that is the object of diagnosis, information relating to degree of progression of a lesion that is the object of diagnosis, or stage classification that is the object of diagnosis.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the display control unit further displays an icon performing operation input indicating that creation of the medical report has been completed, and wherein the display control unit displays a warning in a case where operation input is performed to the icon without information having the predetermined attributes having been changed.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an image acquisition unit configured to, in a case where an image included in the first medical report has been identified by the identifying unit, acquire information of an examination where the identified image was acquired, and acquire an image of the object of diagnosis acquired of a region corresponding to the identified image based on the information of the examination.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein, in a case where creation of the medical report has been ordered for follow-up of the object of diagnosis and an image of the first medical report is included in the at least one item identified by the identifying unit, the image acquisition unit acquires the image based on the information of the examination in which the image in the first medical report was acquired and on the order, and
wherein the display control unit displays the image identified by the identifying unit and the image acquired by the image acquisition unit in tandem for editing the medical report.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein, in a case where an image included in the first medical report is identified by the identifying unit and an image of the object of diagnosis corresponding to the identified image can be acquired, the display control unit displays, in a screen for editing the medical report, the identified image and the image acquired by the image acquisition unit, in accordance with operation input as to the image that is the object of diagnosis corresponding to the identified image, and
wherein, in a case where an image included in the first medical report is identified by the identifying unit but an image of the object of diagnosis corresponding to the identified image cannot be acquired, the display control unit displays, in a screen for editing the medical report, an item associated with the at least one item identified by the identifying unit as an item for displaying an image.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one associated item includes a plurality of associated items, and
wherein the identifying unit is configured to identify the plurality of associated items of the plurality of items included in the first medical report further based on a duplication range.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the specification unit has specified information for ordering creating of the first medical report based on receipt of user operation, the identifying unit identifies an item included in the first medical report that corresponds to the information for ordering.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the identified image and an image acquired in response to a same order as the identified image are included in the first medical report, the identifying unit identifies the identified image and the acquired image as the identified image.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the identifying unit performs first processing to identify an item associated with a particular item in a reverse order different from a forward order of site, findings, diagnosis, and treatment information and second processing to identify an item associated with a particular item in a direction of the forward order,
identifies, by the first processing, an item associated with an item identified by the first processing, and
identifies, by the second processing, an item associated with an item identified by the second processing.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the identifying unit performs first processing to identify an item associated with a particular item in a reverse order different from a forward order of site, findings, diagnosis, and treatment information, and whe

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Yakami Masahiro
• Emoto Yutaka
• Teranishi Keisuke

Classifications

• G16H50/20

  for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems · CPC title

• G16H15/00 Primary

  ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof · CPC title