Patent Document ID: 9474500
Application ID: 13146465
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for remote diagnosis of coronary artery disease, the method comprising: imaging a heart of a patient of a hospital emergency department using a scanning multi-detector computed tomography device at an imaging location, the computed tomography device generating heart image data including three dimensional cardiac image data of a plurality of coronary arteries of the patient; storing the image data in a server; processing the image data with a computer to select a subset of the image data for transmission to a remote location, said processing including: selecting motion free cardiac image data; subsequently segmenting the motion free image data to select coronary artery image data from the stored image data to extract the selected coronary artery image data from the heart image data; compressing the coronary artery extracted image data including lossless compression of the selected coronary artery image data to generate compressed coronary artery image data; transmitting the compressed coronary artery image data to a remote location; recording a remote diagnosis of the coronary arteries of the patient to store data indicating coronary artery disease of the patient; storing the transmitted compressed coronary artery image data; and wirelessly transmitting the remote diagnosis to a display device.