Database systems and interactive user interfaces for dynamic interaction with, and sorting of, digital medical image data

Abstract

Database systems and techniques are disclosed for accessing data stores of digital medical images, processing the digital images, and displaying the digital images to efficiently provide information in an interactive user interface. The disclosure may advantageously provide efficient and rapid dynamic interaction with digital images accessed from one or more databases to enable user detection of differences between related digital images. Interactive user interfaces may be dynamically updated to provide rapid comparison of digital images. Further, digital images from multiple data sources may be automatically sorted by the system according to attributes associated with the images and rules and/or preferences of the user. In an embodiment the user may select a digital image from a first data source, and the system automatically determines and displays one or more comparison images from other image data sources. Images may additionally be automatically registered and/or matched to enable more efficient comparison and evaluation.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Any and all applications for which a foreign or domestic priority claim is identified in the Application Data Sheet as filed with the present application are hereby incorporated by reference under 37 CFR 1.57.[0002]This application claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 155,362, filed Apr. 30, 2015, and titled “SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACES FOR DYNAMIC INTERACTION WITH, AND COMPARISON OF, MEDICAL IMAGE DATA,” and also claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 171,866, filed Jun. 5, 2015, and titled “SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACES FOR DYNAMIC INTERACTION WITH, AND COMPARISON OF, MEDICAL IMAGE DATA.”[0003]This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, filed on Apr. 27, 2016, with attorney docket number MERG1.042A2, and titled “DATABASE SYSTEMS AND INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACES FOR DYNAMIC INTERACTION WITH, AND COMPARISON OF, DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGE DATA,” U.S. patent application ...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]It has been noted that design of computer user interfaces “that are useable and easily learned by humans is a non-trivial problem for software developers.” (Dillon, A. (2003) User Interface Design. MacMillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Vol. 4, London: MacMillan, 453-458.) The present disclosure describes various embodiments of interactive and dynamic user interfaces that are the result of significant development. This non-trivial development has resulted in the user interfaces described herein which may provide significant cognitive and ergonomic efficiencies and advantages over previous systems. The interactive and dynamic user interfaces include improved human-computer interactions that may provide reduced mental workloads, improved decision-making, reduced work stress, and/or the like, for a user. For example, user interaction with the interactive user interface via the inputs described herein may provide an optimized display of, and interaction with, image data (including medical images) and may enable a user to more quickly and accurately access, navigate, assess, and digest the image data than previous systems.

[0015]Further, the interactive and dynamic user interfaces described herein are enabled by innovations in efficient interactions between the user interfaces and underlying systems and components. For example, disclosed herein are improved methods of receiving user inputs (including methods of interacting with, and selecting, images), translation and delivery of those inputs to various system components, automatic and dynamic execution of complex processes in response to the input delivery, automatic interaction among various components and processes of the system, and automatic and dynamic updating of the user interfaces (to, for example, display the relevant medical images). The interactions and presentation of data via the interactive user interfaces described herein may accordingly provide cognitive and ergonomic efficiencies and advantages over previous

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Previous systems for display of, and interaction with, image data were typically inef

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