Patent ID: 8185904
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: G06F,G16H,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a plurality of computerized processes relating to medical examinations comprising the steps of: in a computerized data processing system, providing a plurality of processing pipelines wherein, in each of said pipelines, data associated with respective medical examination procedures are processed independently of processing in other pipelines; among a plurality of processes to be respectively processed in said pipelines, assigning one of said processes, that represents scanning of an examination subject by a medical imaging modality, a high priority that is higher than respective priorities assigned others of said processes; upon arrival of each incoming process at said computerized system, determining the priority associated with the incoming process; if said incoming process has said high priority associated therewith, assigning said incoming process to at least one predetermined priority pipeline, among said plurality of pipelines and processing said incoming process in said priority pipeline by reconstructing an image of the examination subject from said scanning, and otherwise assigning said incoming process for processing in a pipeline, other than said priority pipeline, in said plurality of pipelines, as soon as said pipeline other than said priority pipeline is available; unless and until a process associated with said high priority arrives at said computerized system as said incoming process, using said priority pipeline to process processes in said plurality of processes other than said process associated with said high priority, and interrupting processing in said priority pipeline if and when a process associated with said high priority arrives at said computerized system as said incoming process; and while said computerized system is operational, perpetually monitoring availability of said priority pipeline.