MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
A medical image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to analyze a target medical image, a unit configured to register information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and a modality used by each doctor, and a unit configured to, when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on information representing the aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of the specific lesion, and, when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor based on the modality.
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9 . A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:
analyze a medical image obtained by imaging an object; and
decide a doctor to interpret the medical image of a plurality of doctors based on a result of the analysis,
wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to change information to be used for the decision in accordance with whether or not the result of the analysis indicates that the medical image includes a lesion.
10 . A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:
analyze a medical image obtained by imaging an object; and
decide a doctor to interpret the medical image of a plurality of doctors based on a result of the analysis.
11 . The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the result of the analysis includes information indicating the presence or absence of the lesion and information indicating identification difficulty of the lesion.
12 . The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the result of the analysis includes information indicating the presence or absence of the lesion and information indicating the medical importance of the lesion.
13 . The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising a storage unit configured to store information indicating attributes of each of the doctors with respect to the interpretation of a specific lesion and identification information of the each of the doctors, which are associated with each other,
wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to decide a doctor to interpret the medical image by using the result of the analysis and the information stored in the storage unit.
14 . A medical image processing method comprising:
analyzing, by a processor, a medical image obtained by imaging an object; and
deciding a doctor to interpret the medical image of a plurality of doctors based on a result of the analysis.