Granted Patent B2

US 12,191,891 · App. 17/452,778 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Inventors: Dingxin Wang (Wuhan, CN); Yaguang Wang (Wuhan, CN); Chao Xia (Wuhan, CN); Xing Ming (Wuhan, CN)

Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.

H03M7/3064G06F16/51G16H30/20G16H30/40

Abstract

Claims (63)

1. A system for medical image data storage, comprising:

a medical imaging device;

at least one storage device including a set of instructions; and

at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage device, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:

generating, by the image device, a medical image file, wherein the medical image file includes a plurality of image slices;

storing, by the at least one processor, onto a first storage device, metadata of the medical image file, wherein the metadata of the medical image file includes index information of the plurality of image slices, wherein the index information of the plurality of image slices is determined by:

identifying, by the at least one processor, a series instance unique identifier (UID) of the plurality of image slices; and

determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of image slices based on the series instance UID, wherein the index information includes a hash value for each of the plurality of image slices, wherein the determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of image slices based on the series instance UID includes:

determining a hash value of a first image slice which is immediately next to a second image slice of the plurality of image slices based on a hash value of the second image slice;

generating, by the at least one processor, at least one sub-image data set based on image data of the medical image file;

storing, by the at least one processor, onto a second storage device of at least one second storage device, each sub-image data set of the at least one sub-image data set, wherein the first storage device is different from each of the at least one second storage device; and

storing, by the at least one processor, onto the first storage device, access information of the at least one second storage device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the storing, onto the first storage device, the metadata of the medical image file includes:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, encrypted metadata by encrypting the metadata of the medical image file; and

storing, by the at least one processor, onto the first storage device, the encrypted metadata.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the dividing the image data of the medical image file into at least one sub-image data set includes:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, compressed image data by compressing the image data of the medical image file; and

dividing, by the at least one processor, the compressed image data into the at least one sub-image data.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations further include:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, at least one encoded sub-image data set by encoding the at least one sub-image data set; and

the storing, by the at least one processor, onto a second storage device of the at least one second storage device, each sub-image data set of the at least one sub-image data set includes:

storing, by the at least one processor, onto a second storage device of the at least one second storage device, each encoded sub-image data set of the at least one encoded sub-image data set.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, access information of the at least one second storage device; and

generating, by the at least one processor, the metadata of the medical image file based on the access information of the image data.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include:

modifying or deleting, by the at least one processor, the at least a portion of the medical image file; and

updating, by the at least one processor, the metadata of the medical image file.

7. A system for accessing medical image data, comprising:

at least one storage device including a set of instructions; and

at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage device, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, from a user terminal, a request for accessing a medical image file, wherein the medical image file includes a plurality of image slices, and the medical image file is generated from a medical imaging device;

obtaining, by the at least one processor, from a first storage device, metadata of the medical image file based on the request, wherein the metadata of the medical image file includes index information of the plurality of image slices, wherein the index information of the plurality of image slices is determined by:

identifying, by the at least one processor, a series instance unique identifier (UID) of the plurality of image slices; and

determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of image slices based on the series instance UID, wherein the index information includes a hash value for each of the plurality of image slices, wherein the determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of image slices based on the series instance UID includes:

determining a hash value of a first image slice which is immediately next to a second image slice of the plurality of image slices based on a hash value of the second image slice;

obtaining, by the at least one processor, from the first storage device, access information of at least one second storage device that stores image data of the medical image file based on the metadata, wherein the first storage device is different from each of the at least one second storage device;

obtaining, by the at least one processor, from the at least one second storage device, at least one sub-image data set of the image data; and

obtaining, by the at least one processor, the medical image file by combining the metadata and the at least one sub-image data set.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the request further includes modifying or deleting at least a portion of the medical image file, and the operations further include:

modifying or deleting, by the at least one processor, the at least a portion of the obtained medical image file based on the request; and

updating, by the at least one processor, at least a portion of the metadata of the medical image file.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the metadata of the medical image file is encrypted, and the obtaining, from the first storage device, the metadata of the medical image file based on the request includes:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, decrypted metadata by decrypting the metadata obtained from the first storage device.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the obtaining the medical image file by combining the metadata and the at least one sub-image data set includes:

obtaining, by the at least one processor, compressed image data by combining the at least one sub-image data set;

obtaining, by the at least one processor, decompressed image data by decompressing the compressed image data; and

obtaining, by the at least one processor, the medical image file by combining the decompressed image data and the decrypted metadata.

11. A system for medical image data storage, comprising:

at least one storage device including a set of instructions; and

at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage device, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:

obtaining, by accessing the at least one storage device by the at least one processor, a plurality of medical image slices, wherein the plurality of medical image slices are generated from a medical imaging device;

identifying, by the at least one processor, a series instance unique identifier (UID) of the plurality of medical image slices;

determining, by the at least one processor, index information of the plurality of medical image slices based on the series instance UID, wherein the index information includes the series instance UID, and the index information includes a hash value for each of the plurality of medical image slices, wherein the determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of medical image slices based on the series instance UID includes:

determining a hash value of a first medical image slice which is immediately next to a second medical image slice of the plurality of medical image slices based on a hash value of the second medical image slice; and

storing, by the at least one processor, the plurality of medical image slices based on the index information of the plurality of medical image slices.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the index information further includes a hash value of a last medical image of the plurality of medical image slices.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the determining, by the at least one processor, the index information of the plurality of medical image slices based on the series instance unique identifier UID includes:

for the each medical image slice of the plurality of medical image slices, determining, by the at least one processor, the hash value according to a hash algorithm.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein a hash value of a lead medical image slice of the plurality of medical image slices is designated as the series instance UID.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the index information further includes a storage ID of a storage device that stores the lead medical image slice.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of medical image slices are stored according to a network attached storage (NAS), and the hash value for each medical image slice of the plurality of medical image slices is designated as an ID of the medical image slice.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of medical image slices are stored according to an object storage service (OSS), and the hash value for each medical image slice of the plurality of medical image slices is designated as an ID of an image file of the medical image slice.

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