Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and program

1. A medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, comprising:

a processor, and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

analyze a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment;

output an analysis result;

acquire information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as the assignment target;

register information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus;

when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion; and

when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, decide an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus.

2. The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to, when deciding an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of a doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion, decide different assigned doctors in accordance with an identification difficulty of a lesion, if the analysis result includes the identification difficulty of the lesion as information associated with the lesion.

3. The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to:

register at least one of a field in which each doctor specializes, a doctor's specialty in region in interpretation, years of experience in interpretation, and a post as information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion; and

register information associated with a medical image apparatus for which each doctor is configured to perform interpretation, as information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus.

4. The medical image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to set, for each assigned doctor, an interpretation sequence of the respective medical images for which assigned doctors have been decided.

5. A medical image processing method in a medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, comprising:

analyzing, by a processor, a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment target;

outputting, by the processor, an analysis result;

acquiring, by the processor, information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as the assignment target;

registering, by the processor, information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus;

when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, deciding, by the processor, an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion; and

when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, deciding, by the processor, an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a medical image processing method in a medical image processing apparatus which decides assigned doctors so as to allow a plurality of doctors to share in interpreting a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object using a medical imaging apparatus, the method comprising:

analyzing a medical image, of the plurality of medical images, which serves as an assignment target;

outputting an analysis result;

acquiring information associated with a medical imaging apparatus used to obtain the medical image as the assignment target;

registering information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion and information representing an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus;

when the analysis result includes information associated with a lesion, deciding an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a specific lesion; and

when the analysis result includes no information associated with a lesion, deciding an assigned doctor for the medical image as the assignment target based on information which is registered and represents an aptitude of each doctor with respect to interpretation of a medical image obtained by imaging by a specific medical imaging apparatus.