Patent ID: 7930193

Claim:
A system for processing medical image files comprising: a plurality of databases; an unscreened files module configured to access unscreened medical image files from the plurality of databases, wherein the unscreened medical image files are created by at least one imaging modality and have not been previously diagnosed, such that medical conditions associated with the unscreened medical image files are not known by the system or the system user; a prescreened files module configured to access prescreened medical image files from the plurality of databases, wherein the prescreened files comprise images that are associated with one or more medical conditions that have been previously diagnosed other than by the system user and the diagnoses are known by the system but not by the user; a distribution module comprising a selection processor configured to select files from the unscreened files module and the prescreened files module and a transmission processor configured to transmit the files to the user's workstation in a predetermined ratio; a system monitoring module configured to monitor and evaluate the user's interpretive output information of the unscreened and prescreened files, wherein the monitoring and evaluation comprises applying ranking algorithm to the interpretive output information to produce a cumulative rank; and a distribution override processor in communication with the system monitoring module and the selection processor, wherein the distribution override processor is configured to adjust, based on the cumulative rank, at least one of the ratio of unscreened medical image files to prescreened medical image files, and characteristics of prescreened medical image files transmitted to the workstation, wherein, as the cumulative rank becomes greater, the ratio of unscreened medical image files to prescreened medical images files becomes lower.