| US 7,548,639 B2 | ||
| Diagnosis assisting system and storage medium having diagnosis assisting program stored therein | ||
| Shuji Sakai, Fukuoka (Japan); Naoki Sugiyama, Otawara (Japan); and Kenichi Niwa, Otawara (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kyushu TLO Company, Limited, Fukuoka-shi (Japan); and Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 16, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/80,428. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-162204 (JP), filed on May 31, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0267337 A1, Dec. 01, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—128 | 13 Claims |
| 1. A diagnosis assisting apparatus for assisting medical diagnosis that is carried out by executing a plurality of judgments
relating to a medical abnormality which has appeared on an image in predetermined steps of execution, the apparatus comprising:
a input unit configured to input each result of the plurality of judgments;
a display unit configured to selectively display a plurality of tools used to acquire, from the image, information to be referred
to for the plurality of judgments, and configured to sequentially provide a display for prompting an input of the results
of the plurality of judgments by sequentially changing the tools to be displayed based on the predetermined steps of execution
and a state of the input of each result of the plurality of judgments by the input unit; and
a determination unit configured to determine a result of the medical diagnosis, based on each of the results of the plurality
of judgments input by the input unit.
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