Patent Document ID: 9081877
Application ID: 12819497
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A medical image interpretation system having a medical image referring part, and a medical record storing part configured to store medical records related to medical images and provided with descriptions of findings about the medical images, the medical image interpretation system comprising: a memory storing the medical images; a process controlling part configured to specify a medical image and extract a medical record of a patient of the medical image; an information extraction processing part configured to extract terms for a sentence written in the medical record extracted by the process controlling part, classify the terms into predetermined types to structure the sentence, and extract a at least one region term from the structured sentence; an image region specifying part configured to select a region term included in the structured sentence that has a corresponding certainty term having a value of “exist”, by checking the certainty term in the structured sentence that includes the region term to specify a set of images extending from a beginning image to a final image, wherein each image in the set of images includes a region corresponding to the selected region term and specify a position and extent of the region in each image in the set of images; and an image processing part configured to display at least the position and extent of the region in a visually recognizable manner.