Patent ID: 8355549

Claim:
A method for controlling a medical image data acquisition device, comprising the steps of: through entries made by an operator via a computer, controlling a data handling procedure, selected from the group consisting of data acquisition and data processing, executed by a medical image data acquisition device, said data handling procedure comprising a plurality of work steps executed in sequence; for an entry made by the operator, among said entries, that designates at least one of said work steps selected from the group consisting of an entry for a work step already effected by the operator and an entry for a work step yet to be effected by the operator, automatically determining in said computer that the operator requires assistance in implementing said at least one of said work steps, by executing a program in said computer that analyzes said entry in context with at least one of steps previously performed by the operator via the computer and a data acquisition protocol entered into the computer for said data acquisition to detect when said entry is atypical or erroneous and thereupon automatically generating an analysis result dynamically selected, dependent on said context, from the group consisting of determination of at least one work step that should be implemented from among said plurality of work steps, and analysis information; and from said computer, making said analysis result available to the operator in a humanly perceptible form.