Patent ID: 8520017
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for managing and displaying medical images, comprising: an image display unit configured to display data of medical images; a user operated input unit configured to position the medical images on the image display unit and to set a display mode to set the positioned medical images in the display mode; an image file generating unit configured to generate an image file including data of the medical images and incidental data that includes display mode data and a classified kind of the medical images, which classified kind of the medical image is a modality kind, an image matrix kind, or a fusion kind; an adding unit configured to add the display mode data for each classified kind of the medical image into the image file, the display mode data for each classified kind of the medical image indicating, based on the positions of the medical images set in the display mode by the user, at least a number of screen divisions, display positions formed by the screen divisions, and an indication of the classified kind of each of plural of medical images formed within the screen divisions, in which each display position corresponds to a single classified kind of medical image when medical images corresponding to different classified kinds are concurrently displayed on a screen; an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image file including the display mode data in the incidental data among the added image files; and an image display unit configured to display the respective medical images included in the obtained image files on the screen in accordance with the display mode data added in the obtained image files.