Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extraction of information from an image and inclusion thereof in a clinical report
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Application No.: US15109700Application Date: 2015-01-12
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Publication No.: US10664567B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Yinhui Deng , Qi Zhong Lin , Lilla Boroczky , Michael Chun-Chieh Lee , Ying Wu
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2015/050214 WO 20150112
- International Announcement: WO2015/110932 WO 20150730
- Main IPC: G06F17/24
- IPC: G06F17/24 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/20 ; G06K9/32 ; G06K9/46 ; G16H15/00 ; G06F19/00

Abstract:
A method includes obtaining, in electronic format, an image (102) including a medical image display region (104) and an information display region (106). The at least one of the medical image display region or the information display region includes graphical indicia representing at least one of an annotation (110, 112, 114, 116) or alphanumeric information (118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140). The method further includes evaluating pixels of the image to identify pixels including the graphical indicia representing an annotation or alphanumeric information of interest in the image. The method further includes extracting the annotation or alphanumeric information of interest from the identified graphical indicia from the image. The method further includes inserting the extracted annotation or alphanumeric information of interest in an electronically formatted clinical report for the image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160328517A1 EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM AN IMAGE AND INCLUSION THEREOF IN A CLINICAL REPORT Public/Granted day:2016-11-10
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