US 11,817,201 B2
Imaging discovery utility for augmenting clinical image management
Mark Palmer, Oak Grove, MN (US); Kalvin Parman, Maple Grove, MN (US); Ryan P. Lahm, Lino Lakes, MN (US); Megan L. Harris, Andover, MN (US); Srinivasan Varahoor, Windsor, CA (US); Priya Nair, Shoreview, MN (US); Julianne H. Spencer, New Brighton, MN (US); Walton W. Baxter, San Clemente, CA (US); and Callie Cronin Myers, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/349,361.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/075,413, filed on Sep. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076804 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/50 (2019.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 30/20 (2018.01) [G16H 30/40 (2018.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising: receiving, with a non-relational (“NoSQL”) data management system (“DMS”) and from a requesting device, a request for at least one first medical image file, the request comprising one or more search terms; accessing, with the NoSQL DMS, a NoSQL database that is managed by the NoSQL DMS, the NoSQL database containing a plurality of medical image files, a plurality of metadata tags associated with each medical image file, and a plurality of artifact files associated with two or more of the plurality of medical image files, the NoSQL database containing mirrored copies of the plurality of medical image files that are stored in a relational (“SQL”) database that is managed by a SQL DMS, wherein the plurality of medical image files contained in the NoSQL database and in the SQL database are each organized in an image-centric hierarchy with image data being at a top level of the image-centric hierarchy and patient information associated with the image data being at a level below the top level of the image-centric hierarchy; performing, with the NoSQL DMS, a search of the NoSQL database, by searching for each of the one or more search terms in the plurality of metadata tags associated with each medical image file among the plurality of medical image files in the NoSQL database; and based on a determination that at least one metadata tag associated with one or more second medical image files among the plurality of medical image files contains keywords that correspond to or match at least one search term among the one or more search terms: identifying, with the NoSQL DMS, corresponding one or more second medical image files as stored in the SQL database, wherein the search 27 of the NoSQL database serves as an index search of the SQL database; 28 retrieving, with at least one of the NoSQL DMS or the SQL DMS and 29 from the SQL database, the one or more second medical image files; and sending, with the at least one of the NoSQL DMS or the SQL DMS, the retrieved one or more second medical image files to the requesting device.