Patent ID: 8321196
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method programmed for execution in a computing device for providing prose text report generation from a patient consultation, the method comprising: capturing two or more orally provided knowledge information items pertaining to a patient or observations of a radiological image during the patient consultation, said two or more orally provided knowledge information items being provided in a memory of the computing device; and utilizing a prose text definition ontology having linguistic knowledge and a base report domain ontology to structure one or more sentences of a prose text report based on said knowledge information items for presentation to a user; said prose text definition ontology comprising: wherein said prose text definition ontology is consulted with concepts from said base report domain ontology to provide prose text that expresses said concepts and relationships involved in the patient consultation; wherein said base report domain ontology imports said knowledge items pertaining to the patient, defines said knowledge items as report domain concepts of said base report domain ontology, identifies relationships between said report domain concepts, and identifies constraints on said report domain concepts, wherein said knowledge items are identified, classified and validated in the context of said base report domain ontology; and wherein said report domain concepts, said relationships between said report domain concepts and said constraints on said report domain concepts are presented to said prose text definition ontology to be expressed as prose text using said references, said connectors and said sequences in said one or more sentences.