Medical image management system
Medical image management system to allow any conventional Internet browser to function as a medical workstation. The system may be used to convert medical images from a plurality of image formats to browser compatible format. The invention also relates to methods to manipulate digital medical images in such a way that multiple imaging modalities from multiple different vendors can be assembled into a database of Internet standard web pages without loss of diagnostic information.
1. A medical Image management system comprising:
a transfer engine for receiving medical Image data from an Image data source;
a converter engine for converting medical image data to a browser compatible Image format connected to receive medical image data from the transfer engine, wherein the converter engine comprises:
a decoder engine for extracting Image pixel data from Image data;
a physiologic knowledge engine for reducing the Image pixel data without loss of diagnostic data connected to receive the extracted pixel data; and
an encoder engine for converting Image pixel data to a browser compatible format connected to receive Image pixel data, whereby image data is converted to the browser compatible format without loss of diagnostic data; and
a post engine for posting the browser compatible Image to a database connected to receive converted Image data.
2. The system of claim 1 , comprising a server connected for retrieving images from a database of browser compatible images in response to a user input.
3. The method of claim 2 , comprising adjusting a movie frame rate based upon a priori knowledge.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the a priori knowledge comprises physiological knowledge respectively associated with the medical images.