Patent ID: 11915821
Assignee: ARTERYS INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of incorporating a comment within a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image file, comprising:
receiving, by a processor of an image viewer system, a comment location of a medical image of the DICOM image file and comment information associated with the comment from a user device associated with a user,
wherein the comment location comprises image coordinates relative to a viewer application executed on the user device, and
wherein the comment information comprises a text body, identity information related to the user, and a comment creation date; and

standardizing an incorporation of the comment with the DICOM image file in accordance with one or more DICOM standards by at least;
converting the image coordinates relative to the viewer application into world coordinates associated with the image viewer system, wherein the world coordinates are convertible to other image coordinates relative to another viewer application when the image is presented via the other viewer application to display the comment at the comment location; and
storing, in a storage medium of the image viewer system, the world coordinates and the comment information as a subset of one or more header attributes of the DICOM image file, wherein the one or more header attributes are preserved according to the one or more DICOM standards as one or more modality-specific attributes to provide future reference for information retrieval.