Patent ID: 8311847
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for normalizing a display protocol in a picture archiving and communications system, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system including at least one processor and at least one memory, a first transmission comprising one or more manifest files, the manifest files configured to associate medical images with image characteristic data, the image characteristic data being obtained from metadata of the medical images and describing characteristics of the medical images, and the manifest files being provided separately from the medical images and providing a catalog of the medical images; generating, by the computer system, a first protocol of display rules for displaying the medical images according to a first viewing layout, the display rules generated using the image characteristic data included in the manifest files, wherein the image characteristic data is used to generate a display of at least one imaging sequence of the medical images in an order or layout not defined by the metadata of the medical images; identifying, by the computer system, similar image characteristics included in the image characteristic data of one or more of the manifest files; modifying, by the computer system, the display rules to normalize the first protocol into a normalized protocol of display rules to provide a second viewing layout consistent with the identified similar image characteristics; and presenting, on a display device, the medical images with the second viewing layout according to at least the normalized protocol.