Patent Document ID: 9449380
Application ID: 13766007
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A medical image quality reporting and monitoring system for use in a medical imaging system, comprising: a medical image computer including, a display processor configured to generate data representing an image for display including a user selectable image element enabling a user to identify at least one medical image as having an image quality deficiency and a display configured to present said image; a repository of a plurality of different pre-validated image quality profiles for a corresponding plurality of different types of image acquisition, an individual profile including a plurality of predetermined image processing settings and user-executed workflow actions for acquiring and post processing an image with optimal image quality characteristics; an image processor configured to anonymize a reduced quality image by removing patient identification data associated with said reduced quality image; and use said pre-validated image quality profiles for automatically acquiring and processing an image to provide a comparison image in response to detection of selection of said user selectable image element; and a report generator configured to, in response to detection of selection of said user selectable image element, identify at least one medical reduced quality image as having a particular image quality deficiency, automatically generate a report comprising, data representing an anonymized reduced quality image having said particular image quality deficiency, a time of acquisition of said reduced quality image, imaging system acquisition settings used in acquiring said reduced quality image, and a record of a sequence of user interface actions occurring preceding and related to acquisition of said reduced quality image.