Patent ID: 8430816

Claim:
A system to facilitate diagnosis of a patient, comprising: a memory device having a plurality of routines stored therein; a processor configured to execute the plurality of routines stored in the memory device, the plurality of routines comprising: a routine configured to effect, when executed, generating at least one patient deviation map based at least in part on a comparison of patient image data to standardized image data; a routine configured to effect, when executed, accessing of reference deviation maps associated with a plurality of disease types and a plurality of severity levels for each disease type from a database; a routine configured to effect, when executed, selection of a particular severity level for each disease type of the plurality of disease types based at least in part on a comparison of the at least one patient deviation map to at least a subset of the accessed reference deviation maps; a routine configured to effect, when executed, automatic calculation of a combined disease severity score for the patient based at least in part on individual disease severity scores corresponding to the selected particular severity levels; and a routine configured to effect, when executed, outputting of a report indicative of the combined disease severity score for the patient; wherein the patient deviation map and the reference deviation maps comprise a plurality of locations, each location comprising a z-score derived from both image and non-image data.