Patent ID: 8243999
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: A61B,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for diagnosing medical conditions having retinal manifestations, comprising the steps of: providing a CBIR system including an archive of stored digital retinal photography images and diagnosed patient data corresponding to said retinal photography images, said stored images each indexed in a CBIR database using a plurality of feature vectors, said feature vectors corresponding to distinct descriptive characteristics of said stored images, and said diagnosed patient data identifying at least one of a plurality of disease states and one of one or more severity levels for the one of the plurality of disease states; obtaining a query image of the retina of a patient; identifying using image processing a plurality of separate regions or structures in said query image; describing said regions or structures using said plurality of feature vectors; retrieving a population of stored images from said database based on similarity to said regions or structures, and diagnosing a disease having retinal manifestations in said patient by: