Patent ID: 9116609
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving an indication of one or more touches at a corresponding one or more locations on a touch enabled display, respective touches defining a touch point at the corresponding location; generating, via a processor, one or more regions of interest associated with one or more areas of at least one medical image in response to receipt of the one or more indications, a location of respective regions of interest corresponding to the location of respective one or more touch points; defining a diameter of respective regions of interest based in part on a width or an amount of pressure of the corresponding touch points at the corresponding locations on the touch enabled display; defining each of the regions of interest to comprise at least one disc comprising the diameter and one or more contours, wherein the respective regions of interest correspond to an area for annotating the medical image; and disjoining at least one of the regions of interest in response to receipt of an indication of a first touch point, of the touch points, outside of an area of the at least one region of interest being moved across the touch enabled display to traverse a first contour and a second contour of the region of interest, wherein disjoining comprises splitting the at least one region of interest into two disjoined regions.