Patent ID: 7639848
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for quality assurance in diagnostic imaging, comprising: deploying a quality assurance protocol to be used to minimize inconsistency in creating, by a plurality of different creators or by a same creator at different times, a current marking of an object in a displayed patient study with respect to a second marking which includes a marking previously created with respect to the same object in the patient study or a marking previously created with respect to a similar patient study; electronically enforcing the quality assurance protocol while creating the current marking with respect to the object in the displayed patient study by interacting with a creator of the current marking to obtain the current marking; comparing the current marking with the second marking, made by a different creator or by a same creator at a different time, based on a criterion predefined by the quality assurance protocol, and generating a warning to the creator of the current marking if there is inconsistency between the current marking and the second marking with respect to the predefined criterion.