Patent ID: 8199982
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of analyzing neurological images, the method comprising: comparing, by a processor, a set of brain scans for a patient to a set of baseline control scans to automatically identify a set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans, wherein a region of interest is an area in a scan that shows an indication of a potential abnormality; searching, by the processor, a set of electronic medical literature sources for medical literature relevant to the set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans to form relevant medical literature; correlating, by the processor, portions of the relevant medical literature describing the set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans to the set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans to form correlated portions of the relevant medical literature; generating, by the processor, a result, wherein the result comprises the set of patient scans and a set of links to the correlated portions of the relevant medical literature; presenting, by the processor, the set of regions of interest to a user; responsive to receiving a selection of a set of additional regions of interest in the set of patient scans from the user to form a set of user selected regions of interest, adding, by the processor, the set of user selected regions of interest to the set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans; and responsive to receiving a selection of a set of undesired regions of interest in the set of patient scans from the user to form a set of de-selected regions of interest, removing, by the processor, the set of de-selected regions of interest from the set of regions of interest in the set of patient scans.