Patent Document ID: 20100280842
Application ID: 12810141
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, comprising: an analysis unit configured to analyze a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment target, and outputting an analysis result; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as the assignment target; a registration unit configured to register information representing an aptitude of said each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing an aptitude of said each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus; and a decision unit configured to, when the analysis result obtained by said analysis unit includes information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered by said registration unit and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion, and, when the analysis result obtained by said analysis unit includes no information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered by said registration unit and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus.