Patent ID: 9050057
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical image system comprising: a storage unit which stores a first medical image generated by a first imaging method in association with information on an abnormal shadow candidate in the first medical image; a selection unit which selects, from the first medical image stored in the storage unit, a medical image to be associated with a second medical image that is generated by a second imaging method different from the first imaging method; a designation unit which designates an abnormal shadow candidate from the first medical image selected; a reception unit which receives the second medical image newly created; a determination unit which determines whether or not the first medical image selected is an image suited for association and whether or not the abnormal shadow candidate designated and the second medical image received satisfy a predetermined condition to be associated; an association unit which stores in the storage unit the second medical image in association with the abnormal shadow candidate designated when the first medical image selected is determined to be the image suited for association as well as the abnormal shadow candidate designated and the second medical image received are determined to satisfy the predetermined condition; and a monitoring unit which monitors the association performed by the association unit, outputs a warning when there exists an abnormal shadow candidate that is not associated with the second medical image or the second medical image that is not associated with any of the abnormal shadow candidate of the first medical image, and stores in the storage unit the abnormal shadow candidate, which is not associated with the second medical image, in association with information indicating that there is no second medical image to be associated as well as the second medical image, with which none of the abnormal shadow candidate of the first medical image is associated, in association with information indicating that there is no abnormal shadow candidate to be associated.