81results about How to "Improve diagnostic quality" patented technology

A system for transmitting, storing, retransmitting and receiving a plurality of electronic medical images, which permits diagnostic readings by physicians during irregularly occurring periods of down time, where each of the electronic medical images contains an indicia, e.g., bid price, of the priority attached to it by a patient, includes first through fourth computer systems. The first computer system includes an associated scanning device for generating the electronic medical images, the second computer system includes an electronic medical image storage memory for storing the electronic medical images in a predetermined order based on the indicia in the respective electronic medical images, the third computer system includes a first display for displaying the selected one of the electronic medical images, and the fourth computer system includes a second display for monitoring all of the electronic medical images, and an input device for changing one of the indicia in a respective one of the electronic medical images thereby changing the predetermined order. The second and third computer systems are connected by both a low speed communications channel for instructing the second computer system to download the selected one of the electronic medical images to the third computer system, and a high speed communications channel for downloading the selected one of the electronic medical images from the second computer system to the third computer system. Methods of operating this system are also described.

Critical needs for MRI patient instruction, testing, comfort, motion control, and speech communication are provided for better imaging which leads to more effective medical care. An MRI Digital Video Projection System is disclosed which provides better quality display to the patient to better inform, instruct, test, and comfort the patient plus the potential to stimulate the brain with microsecond onset times to better diagnose brain function. An MRI Motion Tracker and Patient Augmented Visual Feedback System enables monitoring patient body part motion, providing real time feedback to the patient and / or technician to substantially improve diagnostic yield of scanning sessions, particularly for children and mentally challenged individuals. An MR Forward Predictive Noise Canceling Microphone System removes the intense MRI acoustic noise improving patient communication, patient safety and enabling coding of speech output. These systems can be used individually but maximum benefit is from providing all three.

A system and appertaining method isolates a hardware or user error in a software controlled apparatus e.g., an NMR-apparatus. A diagnostic function is added to an event log that uses a causality model to analyze the event log. A series of events in the event log is evaluated by comparing the events with at least one of a number of root cause related patterns, and a best match of these patterns is used to assign a root cause for the error. Various repair actions may be associated based on a probabilistic model. Additional information may be utilized to modify or improve respective probabilities associated with causes and / or repair actions. This additional information may utilize other automated diagnostic information or may query users for additional information.

A method 1 for visualizing a registration quality of medical image datasets is provided. A reference image 10 and an object image 20 are acquired and registered with each other to form a merged image 40 by a registration method having a non-elastic and an elastic registration method section. A deformation field is determined having displacement vectors 45 from image points 25 of the object image 20 to image points 15 of the reference image 10 which are conditioned by the elastic registration method section. One region of the merged image 40 is overlayed with an overlay 50 into which parameters of the deformation field are fed. The region of the merged image 40 and the overlaid overlay 50 is visualized.