Patent Document ID: 8529446
Application ID: 11806335
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of planning a clinical study with a study and data management system, the method comprising: gathering, in a knowledge database of the study and data management system at least partially executed by a processor, data correlated to at least a first clinical study, the first clinical study being an image-based study with a plurality of images being acquired by a plurality of imaging modalities, wherein the gathered data includes image data, metadata and image study results, the metadata being associated with the image data and containing configuration settings of at least one of the imaging modalities, the configuration settings being settings of the imaging modalities utilized when acquiring the associated image data during the first clinical study; correlating the image study results to the configuration settings of the imaging modalities; and automatically determining optimum configuration settings for imaging modalities to be used in a future clinical image study by accessing the knowledge database.