Patent ID: 7929740
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A system for processing film-based mammographic data, comprising: a user input/output system adapted and configured to receive from a user a user-defined scanning protocol identifying at least a view type for one or more mammographic films in a film case to be scanned using the user-defined scanning protocol; a storage system in communication with said input/output system, programmed and arranged to store the user-defined scanning protocol for subsequent use in scanning film cases; a scanning system adapted to receive and scan a plurality of film cases, generating therefrom a digitized version of each mammographic film; and a processor in communication with said storage system and said scanning system, adapted and programmed to assign view types to one or more digitized versions of the mammographic film according to the user-defined scanning protocol; wherein said storage system stores a plurality of scanning protocols and said user input/output system is further adapted to receive a user's instruction to re-assign a case scanned according to a first scanning protocol to a second scanning protocol, said processor further adapted to automatically assign the view type to each digitized version according to the second scanning protocol in response to the user's instruction.