Patent ID: 8315688

Claim:
A medical image management system comprising: a medical imaging device configured to capture a medical movie of a patient who receives medical treatment, said medical movie consisting of a plurality of still images; a recording unit configured to record said movie captured with said medical imaging device; a measurement unit configured to measure physiological conditions of a surgeon who performs medical treatment on said patient and to obtain physiological data; and an indexing unit configured to add indices to said medical movie recorded by said recording unit according to said physiological data obtained by the measurement unit; and wherein said indexing unit includes a data receiving unit configured to receive said physiological data from said measurement unit, a comparison unit configured to compare said physiological data received by said data receiving unit with a predetermined threshold, and a first sampling unit configured to sample still-image information from said movie if said first comparison unit detects that said physiological data exceeds said threshold; and said still-image information is sampled by said first sampling unit from a still image of the moment when the physiological data exceeds said threshold.