Patent ID: 9613416
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A computed axial tomography scan analysis system comprising: an acquisition interface configured to access from an electronic database computed axial tomography data of a head region of a patient, the computed axial tomography data comprising a volumetric data set of the head region; a skull segmentation filter configured to identify a first set of data elements in the volumetric data set that correspond to a skull portion of the patient and a second set of data elements in the volumetric data set that correspond to other brain matter of the patient; an atlas alignment engine configured to utilize the second set of data elements to align the volumetric data set to a normative data set, the aligning configured to position the head region to a predetermined position; a reslicing generator configured to reslice the aligned volumetric data set; an intracranial periphery boundary filter configured to identify a third set of data elements in the second set of data elements that correspond to an intracranial periphery area and fourth set of data elements that correspond to brain matter within the intracranial periphery area; a ventricle identification filter configured to identify a fifth set of data elements in the fourth set of data that correspond to anterior and posterior ventricles of the patient; a midline shift detection filter configured to utilize the fifth set of data elements to determine a shift in the midline of the ventricles of the patient; a tissue detection filter configured to utilize the fourth set of data elements to determine a tissue type for each data element in the fourth set of data elements; an analysis engine configured to determine whether detected tissue type amounts correspond to the normative data set; and a priority assessment generator configured generate a priority level output for the computed axial tomography data based on the determination of the analysis engine and on the shift in the midline of the ventricles; a queue management generator configured to position the patient in a workflow listing comprising a plurality of other patients based on the priority level output, where the computed axial tomography scan analysis system comprises a computer processor and electronic storage medium.