IP Library Granted Patent US 12700090
Granted Patent B2
US 12700090 · App. 18/460,712 · Granted Aug 4, 2026

Information management apparatus to acquire medical image for finding remark related to region of interest including abnormal area and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Inventors: Keigo Nakamura (Minato-ku, JP); Jun Masumoto (Minato-ku, JP); Yuya Hamaguchi (Minato-ku, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G06T7/0012G16H30/20G06N3/08G06T2207/30004G06V10/70G06V10/75
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Patent No.
US 12700090
App. No.
18/460,712
Granted
Aug 4, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A processor acquires at least one finding about at least one region of interest included in a medical image, derives correspondence information in which the at least one finding and medical image information about the region of interest are associated with each other, and registers the correspondence information in a database.

Claims (51)

1 . An information management apparatus comprising:

at least one processor,

the processor being configured to

acquire a medical image and a medical document associated with the medical image,

analyze a finding remark in the medical document to acquire at least one finding about at least one region of interest included in the medical image,

derive correspondence information in which the at least one finding and medical image information about the region of interest are associated with each other, register the correspondence information in a database,

display the medical image on a display, and

in response to the region of interest in the medical image being selected by a user, retrieve the at least one finding included in the correspondence information according to the region of interest from the database and display the at least one finding along with the medical image on the display,

wherein when the region of interest includes an abnormal area, the processor derives correspondence information in which the finding and the medical image information are associated with each other on a per-type-of-abnormal-area basis.

2 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to acquire findings, each of which is the finding, from a plurality of medical images respectively, and

derive the correspondence information in which each of the findings and a related one of pieces of medical image information, each of which is the medical image information, are associated with each other.

3 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the medical image information includes a local image of the region of interest in the medical image.

4 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the medical image information includes a feature value that indicates a feature of the region of interest in the medical image.

5 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the medical image information includes the medical image and positional information that indicates a position of the region of interest in the medical image.

6 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to, when the region of interest includes a normal area, derive correspondence information in which the finding and the medical image information are associated with each other on a per-type-of-normal-area basis.

7 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the finding includes a property of the region of interest.

8 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the finding includes anatomical level information that indicates a level of an anatomical segment of an organ that includes the region of interest.

9 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the finding includes size information that indicates at least one of a direction of measurement or a size level of a size of the region of interest.

10 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the finding includes at least one of a focal finding or a nonfocal finding.

11 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to derive the correspondence information in which the finding and a generation method for medical information that includes the finding are further associated with each other.

12 . The information management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor analyzes the finding remark in the medical document by using a natural language processing method to acquire the at least one finding about the at least one region of interest included in the medical image.

13 . An information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor,

the processor being configured to

acquire a target medical image that is a generation target of medical information,

identify a target region of interest included in the target medical image, identify a finding corresponding to medical image information that is about the target region of interest retrieved from a database in which a plurality of pieces of correspondence information in each of which a finding and medical image information about a region of interest among various regions of interest included in a medical image among various medical images are associated with each other are registered,

display the target medical image on a display,

in response to the target region of the interest in the target medical image selected by a user, displaying a finding remark corresponding to the finding corresponding to the medical image information on the display along with the target medical image, and

generate a medical document comprising the finding remark and associate the medical document with the target medical image,

wherein when the target region of interest includes an abnormal area, the processor derives correspondence information in which the finding and the medical image information are associated with each other on a per-type-of-abnormal-area basis.

14 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the database is created by registering correspondence information derived by the information management apparatus according to claim 1 .

15 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the processor is configured to identify the finding that is related to a change from a healthy state of the target region of interest, with reference to the correspondence information.

16 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the processor is configured to further generate medical information that includes the identified finding.

17 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the correspondence information is information in which the finding and a generation method for medical information that includes the finding are associated with each other, and

the processor is configured to identify a generation method for the medical information about the target region of interest with reference to the database, and

derive the medical information that includes the identified finding on the basis of the identified generation method.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores an information management program causing a computer to perform:

a procedure of acquiring a medical image and a medical document associated with the medical image,

a procedure of analyzing a finding remark in the medical document to acquire at least one finding about at least one region of interest included in the medical image,

a procedure of deriving correspondence information in which the at least one finding and medical image information about the region of interest are associated with each other, a procedure of registering the correspondence information in a database,

a procedure of displaying the medical image on the display, and

a procedure of, in response to the region of interest in the medical image being selected by a user, retrieving the at least one finding included in the correspondence information according to the region of interest from the database and displaying the at least one finding along with the medical image on the display,

wherein when the region of interest includes an abnormal area, correspondence information in which the finding and the medical image information are associated with each other is derived on a per-type-of-abnormal-area basis.

19 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores an information processing program causing a computer to perform:

a procedure of acquiring a target medical image that is a generation target of medical information,

a procedure of identifying a target region of interest included in the target medical image, a procedure of identifying a finding corresponding to medical image information that is about the target region of interest retrieved from a database in which a plurality of pieces of correspondence information in each of which a finding and medical image information about a region of interest among various regions of interest included in a medical image among various medical images are associated with each other are registered,

a procedure of displaying the target medical image on the display,

a procedure of, in response to the target region of the interest in the target medical image selected by a user, displaying a finding remark corresponding to the finding corresponding to the medical image information on the display along with the target medical image, and

a procedure of generating a medical document comprising the finding remark and associating the medical document with the target medical image,

wherein when the target region of interest includes an abnormal area, correspondence information in which the finding and the medical image information are associated with each other is derived on a per-type-of-abnormal-area basis.