Patent ID: 7996240

Claim:
A method for determining at least one additional examination procedure in a medical examination of a patient, comprising the steps of: providing an electronic knowledge base comprising a number of computerized rules, each rule comprising a medical condition from which a medical result is derivable, with each medical result comprising an indication of a region of a patient to be examined in an examination procedure; from an examination of an initial region of a patient, acquiring at least one item of patient-related information; generating an examination-specific condition from the patient-related information; entering said examination-specific condition into a computerized processor and, from said processor, accessing said knowledge base and determining, from among said number of rules, a determined rule comprising a medical condition that most closely corresponds to said examination-specific condition; in said processor, automatically implementing the determined rule to derive an examination-specific result corresponding to the medical result of the determine rule; and emitting said examination-specific result as an output from the processor comprising an instruction to implement the medical procedure comprised in the determined rule to observe the examination region comprised in the determined rule that is different from said initial region.