System and method for using imaging quality metric ranking
View Patent ↗A method and system is provided for storing and analyzing clinical imaging data. The method includes obtaining patient images from two or more modalities, registering the images, determining position information of a voxel, calculating and assigning a quality metric for the voxel, storing the voxel information and at least one searchable header as imaging data in a computer memory, and modifying or maintaining treatment based on the imaging data. The system includes a memory and a processor, the processor configured to obtain images from two or more modalities, register and store the image set in memory, calculate a quality metric for a voxel in the image set, store the voxel quality metric with the image set in the memory, and modify or maintain treatment based on the calculated qualitative metric.
1. A computer-implemented method to store and analyze clinical imaging data for a treatment program comprising:
obtaining two or more images of a patient from two or more modalities;
registering the images to provide a multi-modal image set;
determining a position information of a voxel in the multi-modal image set;
calculating a quality metric for the voxel of the multi-modal image set;
assigning the quality metric to the voxel; and
storing the voxel, the voxel position information, the quality metric and at least one searchable header as imaging data in a memory of a computing device; and
modifying or maintaining the treatment program based on the imaging data;
wherein the quality metric for the voxel is calculated from parameters comprising a resolution of the images, a quantity of the images and a quantity of the imaging modalities.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the registering uses quantitative metrics from the images.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the images are obtained at different times.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the different times are before a treatment, during the treatment and after the treatment of the patient.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising analyzing the imaging data to determine a treatment outcome and storing the treatment and the outcome with the imaging data.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the treatment comprises more than one treatment step and storing the treatment includes storing the order of treatment steps.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the two or more images include a biopsy image.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the searchable header comprises at least one of: a physician, a diagnosis, a treatment, a patient outcome and a medical facility.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising assembling an image associated with a quality metric by combining a plurality of the stored voxels.
10. A system for storing and analyzing clinical imaging data for a treatment program, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor interconnected with the memory, the processor configured to:
obtain two or more images from two or more modalities;
store the images in the memory;
register the images to provide a multi-modal image set;
store the multi-modal image set in the memory;
calculate a quality metric for a voxel in the multi-modal image set;
store the voxel quality metric with the multi-modal image set in the memory; and
modify or maintain the treatment program based on the calculated quality metric;
wherein the quality metric for the voxel is calculated from parameters comprising a resolution of the images, a quantity of the images and a quantity of the imaging modalities.
11. The system of claim 10 , further comprising a searchable database in communication with the processor to store the multi-modal image set and voxel quality metric.