Patent ID: 8041129
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for electronically compressing data from a multidimensional medical data set for long-term storage, comprising: generating a first medical image from a patient multi-dimensional medical image data set in a short-term storage format, wherein the multi-dimensional medical image data set is defined as a number of grid points in G dimensions, where there is a V number of values in each grid point with V≧1, and wherein the medical image data set has G and V values of G≦4 and V≦6; and compressing the patient medical image data set into a long-term storage format using at least one viewing parameter, wherein the at least one viewing parameter defines non-relevant or less relevant data that is electronically discarded or given a simplified representation during the compressing step, and wherein the at least one viewing parameter comprises at least one of the following: a grayscale window; a transfer function; a time-dimension parameter for time-series images; a viewing angle; and a manual cropping/segmentation.