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Method and appparatus for generating a compact post-diagnostic case record for browsing and diagnostic viewing
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Inventors: Bernadett, Michael J.; Castorino, Michael; Dilorenzo, Sharon; Fee, Nancy; Foster, George; Martin, Irene; Michener, James; Wallace, David;
Assignee: Eigden Video (Nevada City, CA)
Primary Examiner: Winder; Patrice
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP
Server accessible case records are generated for post-diagnostic and remote access viewing. First, a master sequence of digital video images is recorded. Next, a post-diagnostic case record is generated including a sequence of thumbnail images and a single lossless still image selected from the master sequence of images. The images of the post-diagnostic case record are formatted to be accessible by a browser over a dial-up connection. Each image of the sequence of thumbnail images includes a selection of interior pixels of one of the digital video images of the master sequence. The sequence of thumbnail images is a selection of consecutive images from the master sequence. The post-diagnostic case record and the master sequence are then stored on an image server. The master sequence is archived onto a secondary archive medium after a predetermined time. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT FIG.
1 includes a series of major rectangular blocks which represent PC or workstation-class computers.
Each workstation preferably includes a monitor, suitable input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse, and any data communication devices necessary to implement the data links shown in FIG.
1 and described in the specification.
In FIG.
1, a minor rectangle within a major rectangle represents a further hardware component.
The circles and ellipses represent software components.
Referring to FIG.
1, the present invention begins in a recorder workstation 2 represented by the first block having a video recorder 4 and a digital video recording of, for example, a series of cardiac images or angiograms.
The images are preferably converted to Dicom 3.
0 XA format, or specifically, to ACC/ACR-NEMA DICOM 3.
0 exchange media, CD-Rom format by a first source code 6.
Another format may be used in accord with the present invention which is readable by an appropriate and accessible diagnostic viewstation 16.
The images preferably comprise 521.
times.
512 pixels, and may include 1024.
times.
512 pixels or any other suitable pixel arrangement.
A second source code 8, disclosed in the appendix and comprising a preferred embodiment of the present invention, entitled "compress.
cpp" 8, generates a plurality of single thumbnail images of the original images forming a Dynamic Thumbnail.
TM.
or a video of the original images.
Each of the Dynamic Thumbnail.
TM.
images in a preferred embodiment is 256.
times.
256 pixels, and may be further reduced to 240.
times.
240 pixels or may be 128.
times.
128 pixels or another pixel amount.
Using compress.
cpp 8, a group of DICOM formatted, thumbnail images, or a Dynamic Thumbnail.
TM.
, is generated.
Compress.
cpp 8 is a plug-in which converts ordinary video images from a video recorder into Dynamic Thumbnail.
TM.
images.
Dynamic Thumbnail.
TM.
images are an ISO standard MPEG-1 file (or video file) generated by taking, e.
g.
, in a preferred embodiment, the middle fifteen frames, or one second of images, out of the center of a larger sequence of images
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