Patent Document ID: 20080201170
Application ID: 12033949
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining at least one additional examination procedure in a medical examination of a patient, comprising the steps of: providing a knowledge base comprising a number of rules, each rule comprising a condition from which a result is derivable, with each result being correlated with said additional examination process; acquiring at least one item of patient-related information; generating an examination-specific condition from the patient-related information; accessing said knowledge base and determining, from among said number of rules, an examination-specific result associated with the examination-specific condition; deriving the examination-specific result from the determined rule associated with the examination-specific condition; and emitting said examination-specific result as an output comprising at least one instruction characterizing an additional examination procedure, said instruction being selected from the group consisting of an instruction to implement further examinations, an instruction to observe further examination regions, an instruction to process image-related data, and an instruction to display image-related data at an imaging device.