Granted Patent B2

US 12,683,016 · App. 18/460,579 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Inventor: Azuma Takahashi (Tokyo, JP)

Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation

G16H40/20G16H30/40

Abstract

Claims (36)

1 . A medical imaging processing system comprising:

a 3D imaging device, configured to capture a tomographic image; and

a medical image processing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory storing a command to be executed by the at least one processor and an access log that records usage information of a user for results of image processing,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

receive the tomographic image from the 3D imaging device;

perform automatic execution image processing on the tomographic image satisfying an automatic execution condition,

wherein the automatic execution condition is at least one of slice thickness of the tomographic image being greater than a first threshold or a number of slices of the tomographic images being greater than a second threshold,

wherein the automatic execution image processing comprises a plurality of types of image processing for assisting in diagnosis of the tomographic and which are settable as automatic execution image processing to be automatically executed on the tomographic image, and

wherein the plurality of types of image processing comprise lesion extraction, segmentation processing, and labelling processing;

retrieve the usage information of the user from the access log stored in the at least one memory to determine whether or not the user has referred to a result of first image processing, among the plurality of types of image processing, and accompanying information on the tomographic image which is a target of the first image processing;

display the usage information and the accompanying information in association with each other on a display; and

in response to the result of first image processing not being referred by the user, execute the automatic execution image processing without executing the first image processing.

2 . The medical image processing system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the usage information includes at least one of whether or not the user has referred to the result of the first image processing, whether or not the result of the first image processing has contributed to preventing missing a disease, a reduction amount in image interpretation time due to the result of the first image processing, whether or not a measurement result of the first image processing has contributed to improvement in accuracy, or whether or not the user has issued an instruction to execute the first image processing other than the automatic execution.

3 . The medical image processing system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to

perform the automatic execution condition further in consideration of an external factor.

4 . The medical image processing system according to claim 3 ,

wherein the external factor includes seasonality of a disease targeted by the first image processing.

5 . The medical image processing system according to claim 1 further comprising:

a server that executes the automatic execution image processing.

6 . The medical image processing system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the 3D imaging device is at least one of an X-ray imaging device, a computed tomography (CT) device, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device, a positron emission tomography (PET) device, an ultrasonic device, or a computed radiography (CR) device.

7 . A medical image processing method comprising:

storing an access log that records usage information of a user for results of image processing in at least one memory;

receiving a tomographic image from a 3D imaging device that captures the tomographic image;

performing automatic execution image processing on the tomographic image satisfying an automatic execution condition,

wherein the automatic execution condition is at least one of slice thickness of the tomographic image being greater than a first threshold or a number of slices of the tomographic images being greater than a second threshold,

wherein the automatic execution image processing comprises a plurality of types of image processing for assisting in diagnosis of the tomographic and which are settable as automatic execution image processing to be automatically executed on the tomographic image, and

wherein the plurality of types of image processing comprise lesion extraction, segmentation processing, and labelling processing;

retrieving the usage information of the user from the access log stored in the at least one memory to determine whether or not the user has referred to a result of first image processing, among the plurality of types of image processing, and accompanying information on the tomographic image which is a target of the first image processing;

displaying the usage information and the accompanying information in association with each other on a display; and

in response to the result of first image processing not being referred by the user, executing the automatic execution image processing without executing the first image processing.

8 . A non-transitory, computer-readable tangible recording medium which records thereon a program for causing, when read by a computer, the computer to execute the medical image processing method according to claim 7 .

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