Patent ID: 8388529

Claim:
A computer implemented method executing on a processor for generating neuropsychiatric diagnoses, the computer implemented method comprising: automatically determining a set of regions of interest in a set of patient scans stored on computer readable storage media based on comparing the set of patient scans with a set of baseline scans stored on computer readable storage media; generating quantitative information describing diagnostic characteristics associated with a patient based on an analysis of the set of patient scans, wherein the quantitative information comprises a set of indicators of potential neuropsychiatric conditions, the set of indicators including one or more indicators associated with each region in the set of regions of interest in the set of scans for the patient including a first indicator associated with a first region of interest in the set of regions of interest and a second indicator associated with a second region of interest in the set of regions of interest, wherein the first indicator is of a different form than the second indicator; comparing each of the set of indicators of potential neuropsychiatric conditions with a set of diagnostic signatures, wherein a diagnostic signature comprises a set of indicators describing diagnostic characteristics of a known neuropsychiatric condition; identifying a plurality of matching signatures, wherein a matching signature is a diagnostic signature describing a first diagnostic characteristic that corresponds to a second diagnostic characteristic described by at least one indicator in the set of indicators to form a set of signatures; and identifying a plurality of diagnoses including a diagnosis associated with each signature in the set of signatures to form a set of potential diagnoses.