Patent Document ID: 8041091
Application ID: 13046758
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, comprising: a processor communicatively coupled to a storage device, said storage device storing computer-executable instructions, which instructions, when executed by the processor cause the processor to operate as: a record module configured to permit importing of digital color fundus images for processing by said system; an image set module configured to group two or more of said images for analysis, each group of images considered as an analysis set of images; a processing module configured to generate analysis information for a selected analysis set of images by pre-processing constituent images of the selected analysis set of images to produce pre-processed images, co-registering the pre-processed images to produce co-registered images and analyzing the co-registered images to automatically identify pathological markers of retinopathy through automated detection of differences in the constituent images of the selected analysis set of images, to indicate either progression or regression of said pathological markers of retinopathy based on analysis of said analysis set of images, and to present clinically relevant information including numbers of microaneurysms that appeared and that suffered occlusion during a patient follow-up period; and an analysis tool configured to provide a user a view of the analysis information and to collect inputs and instructions from a user via one or more tools of a graphical user interface.