Patent ID: 6669482
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method for training radiologists and other interpreters of radiologic studies by tracking their use of feature descriptors and their diagnostic accuracy in the interpretation of radiologic examinations, as well as the health outcome of patients on whom the interpreted examinations are obtained, the method comprising:tracking each radiologist's characterization of findings in radiologic examinations they interpret using accepted feature descriptors; tracking each radiologist's assessments and conclusions concerning the presence or absence of biological processes that cause the findings they characterize in radiologic examinations; tracking evidence for the presence or absence of biologic processes in patients on whom the interpreted examinations have been obtained; and, having each radiologist review tracked data and associated radiologic exams for the purpose of teaching the radiologist to better understand the relationship between feature descriptors and the biologic processes imaged in radiologic examinations, thereby improving the radiologist's diagnostic accuracy and reducing the variability in their use of standardized terminology.