Patent ID: 8244684
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A report searching apparatus, comprising: an archive configured to archive a plurality of radiology reports; an extracting part configured to extract specified types of words from the plurality of radiology reports; a combination generator configured to generate combinations of words extracted from the radiology reports, for every radiology report; an index storage configured to store the combinations generated by the combination generator; a searching part configured to, in response to an input operation of inputting the specified types of words, search the combinations each including the inputted specified types of words as one part thereof, from the index storage; a list generator configured to generate a list of the other part of the specified types of words included in each of the combinations searched by the searching part and, in response to an input operation of selecting any word from the list of the words, generate a list of radiology reports including the one word having been inputted and the other word having been selected; and an output part configured to, in response to an input operation of selecting any report from the list of the radiology reports, output a selected radiology report from the archive, wherein the extracting part includes a dictionary storage configured to store dictionary data including a word in a finding field and a word in a diagnosed disease name field of a radiology report, and extracts the word in the finding field and the word in the diagnosed disease name field included in the dictionary data, and wherein the combination generator generates a combination of the word in the finding field and the word in the diagnosed disease name field.