Patent Document ID: 9317580
Application ID: 13983070
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: obtaining electronically formatted information using one or more processors that includes initially selected medical imaging protocols, types of imaging procedures, sets of imaging parameters, and clinical indications from previously performed imaging procedures; classifying the obtained electronically formatted information into groups of medical imaging protocols using one or more processors based on the initially selected medical imaging protocols; identifying deviations between the grouped classified information and the obtained information; generating a signal indicative of the deviations which includes a difference between at least one of: at least one of the imaging parameters in the set of imaging parameters, a type of imaging procedure, or at least one of the clinical indications; and determining at least one recommendation based on the signal indicative of the deviations and the at least one recommendation includes at least one of: a misuse of the initially selected medical imaging protocol, an update to the initially selected medical imaging protocol; a split of the initially selected medical imaging protocol into a plurality of medical imaging protocols, or a new initially selected medical imaging protocol.