Medical Scan Report Labeling System with Alias Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical imaging systems lack an efficient and integrated solution for accurately reviewing and annotating medical scans, leading to inconsistencies and inefficiencies in diagnosis and reporting processes.
Innovation Solution
A medical scan processing system that includes a client/server network architecture with subsystems for assisted review, report labeling, annotation, diagnosis, and natural language analysis, enabling bidirectional communication and secure data storage, allowing for interactive interfaces for users to review, annotate, and generate reports on medical scans.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple analysis functions are integrated into a single system, then diagnosis consistency and reporting quality improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple analysis functions including assisted review, report labeling, annotation, diagnosis, and natural language analysis into a single integrated medical scan processing system. This consolidation ensures consistent diagnosis quality across different analysis tasks while reducing the need for multiple separate systems, thereby improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed as a universal platform that performs multiple functions through a common architecture. The client/server network architecture supports all analysis functions through shared resources, unified data management, and consistent interfaces, allowing one system to replace multiple specialized tools while maintaining high diagnostic consistency.
2Reliability
If an integrated system with multiple analysis functions is implemented, then reporting quality improves, but ease of operation may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex analysis functions into distinct modules (assisted review, report labeling, annotation, diagnosis, natural language analysis) that can be accessed independently through a unified interface. This segmentation allows users to interact with individual functions as needed while maintaining overall system simplicity and consistency in operation.
3Reliability
If secure data storage and bidirectional communication are implemented, then system reliability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a client/server network architecture where the server acts as an intermediary for secure data storage and communication. This intermediary structure handles security protocols, data encryption, and communication routing centrally, allowing clients to access services without exposing complex security mechanisms, thus improving data security while managing network architecture complexity.
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AI summary
A medical scan report labeling system is operable to transmit a medical report that includes natural language text to a first client device for display. Identified medical condition term data is received from the first client device in response. An alias mapping pair in a medical label alias database is identified by determining that a medical condition term of the alias mapping pair compares favorably to the identified medical condition term data. A medical code that corresponds to the alias mapping pair and a medical scan that corresponds to the medical report are transmitted to a second client device of an expert user for display, and accuracy data is received from the second client device in response. The medical code is mapped to the first medical scan in the medical scan database when the accuracy data indicates that the medical code compares favorably to the medical scan.