Patent ID: 8352416

Claim:
A diagnostic report search supporting apparatus, comprising: a memory configured to store a plurality of diagnostic reports in a retrievable manner; a report registering part configured to register a diagnostic report into the memory; a structuring processing part configured to, for each sentence written in the diagnostic report, extract terms from the sentence and classify the terms into predetermined types to structure the sentence written in the diagnostic report; a related-term analyzing part configured to generate a plurality of combinations, each composed of two or more terms, based on the plurality of terms extracted by the structuring processing part; a counting part configured to count an existence number of same combinations in the plurality of combinations, and extract combinations whose existence numbers are a predetermined number or more; a keyword inputting part configured to input a desired keyword; and a keyword extracting part configured to extract a combination that includes the inputted desired keyword from among the combinations extracted by the counting part, and extract a term other than the desired keyword from the extracted combination as a related keyword to obtain a search result for the inputted desired keyword; a report searching part configured to extract a diagnostic report including one or both of the desired keyword and the related keyword from the memory; and a related-report management information archive, wherein the counting part is configured to archive identification information of the diagnostic report as a source of extraction of the two or more terms composing the combination and the combination into the related-report management information archive; and the report searching part is configured to extract the identification information related with the combination including one or both of the desired keyword and the related keyword from the related-report management information archive and, based on the extracted identification information, extract the diagnostic report from the memory.