Patent ID: 8630467
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A diagnosis assisting system, comprising: volume data storage means, for storing a plurality of sets of volume data, obtained by imaging at least one subject on different imaging dates/times, in a predetermined storage device, correlated with subject identifying data and imaging date or time data; volume data selecting means, for selecting a plurality of sets of volume data correlated with subject identifying data that represents a specified subject, from among the sets of volume data stored in the storage device; index value calculating means, for calculating at least one type of index value that represents the state of the subject within each set of volume data, by analyzing the selected plurality of sets of volume data; transition data generating means, for generating transition data that represent temporal transitions in the index values for each type of index value, based on the index values calculated for each set of volume data; map generating means, for generating at least one subject map that includes regions in which transitions are detected, by employing the transition data and at least one of the selected sets of volume data; predicting means, for calculating index values that present the future states of the subjects, based on the transition data; transition data storage means, for storing the transition data with respect to a plurality of subjects; and display control means, for outputting data specified by predetermined operations from among the index values calculated by the index value calculating means and the transition data generated by the transition data generating means to a predetermined screen, correlated with the regions on the at least one subject map at which the transitions have been detected, wherein the predicting means searches for at least one case of transition data similar to that the transition data generated by the transition data generating means, from among cases of the transition data stored in the transition data storage means, and calculates the index value that represents the future state of the subject using the transition rate of the index of the detected case of transition data, and wherein the display control means outputs the index values calculated by the predicting means, correlated with the regions on the at least one subject map at which the transitions have been detected.