Patent ID: 11922668
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of performing an asynchronous adjudication of one or more regions-of-interest in a medical image by a group of two or more graders, each of which has access to a set of tools at a workstation in which the workstation includes a display displaying the medical image, comprising:
providing each of the graders with a first user interface feature enabling the grader to assess the medical image and manually delineate one or more specific regions-of-interest (ROI) in the medical image on the workstation display;
providing each of the graders with a second user interface feature for assessing the ROI delineated by other graders, including display of the ROI delineated by other graders;
providing each of the graders with dialog features for explaining and discussing the assessments, including a text feature permitting a grader to ask questions about a ROI delineated by other graders and permitting a grader to answer questions about the ROI they delineated wherein the dialog features and the ROIs delineated by all the graders are visible to all the graders on their respective workstation display as they adjudicate the medical image in a round-robin, asynchronous manner;
providing each of the graders with a third user interface feature for manually verifying grader agreement; and
responsive to receiving indications of grader agreement from all of the graders via respective third user interface features, concluding the adjudication of the medical image.