Patent Document ID: 9904966
Application ID: 14211653
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for medical report-to-image navigation, comprising: retrieving, by a processor, a narrative report for at least one study including a plurality of images of a patient from a memory; determining, by the processor, text structure boundaries to identify and classify each text structure in the narrative report; determining, by the processor, image references in each text structure of the narrative report; extracting, by the processor, image references from text structures classified as including an image reference, wherein extracting image references includes: (i) extracting references where both series and image information is explicitly provided with a numeric value; (ii) extracting references where a series is referred to using an imaging scanning plane; (iii) extracting information where series information is included; and (iv) extracting information where a number over number pattern is provided; determining, by the processor, the at least one study to which each extracted image reference corresponds, rendering, by the processor, a report including the extracted image references and the at least one study to which the extracted image corresponds, and displaying, by the processor, the report, wherein the extracted image references are displayed as hyperlinks such that selecting one of the hyperlinks displays a corresponding image.