Patent ID: 7680678

Claim:
A diagnostic support system formed by connecting a client terminal provided in a medical facility and a database server provided in a data center via a network, said system comprising: a client terminal for transmitting image data, which represents a medical image obtained by imaging intended for diagnosis, and information on an examination utilizing the medical image to said database server, retransmitting the information on the examination utilizing the medical image to said database server when requesting anatomical chart data representing a desired anatomical chart, and displaying an image including the anatomical chart based on the anatomical chart data received from said database server; and a database server for recording the image data and the information on the examination, which are received from said client terminal, in a first recording medium, and retrieving corresponding anatomical chart data from a second recording medium, in which plural kinds of anatomical chart data are recorded, based on the received information on the examination to transmit the retrieved anatomical chart data to said client terminal when anatomical chart data is requested, wherein said second recording medium stores a table for associating (1) plural kinds of the name of an illness or a part to be examined, (2) anatomical chart filenames of data files, in which plural kinds of the anatomical chart data are stored respectively, and (3) alpha channel information, which represents degree of transparency when the anatomical chart is displayed by being superimposed on the medical image, together with an anatomical chart filename, said database server being operative to read out the alpha channel information together with the anatomical chart filename from said table, and transmit the alpha channel information together with the anatomical chart data retrieved based on the anatomical chart filename, to the client terminal.