Automated patient/document identification and categorization for medical data

US8751495B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Stanley Chung · Royersford, US
• Faisal Farooq · Norristown, US
• Glenn Fung · Madison, US
• Balaji Krishnapuram · King of Prussia, US
• R. Bharat Rao · Berwyn, US
• Romer E. Rosales · Burlingame, US
• John Weis · Collegeville, US
• Shipeng Yu · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2010
• Grant date: Jun 10, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H50/70
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method, including receiving a data source selection from a user or software application, the data source including medical information of a plurality of patients, receiving, from the user or software application, a data pattern that is related to a concept to be explored in the data source, querying the data source to find information that approximately matches the data pattern; and receiving the information from the data source, wherein the information includes unstructured data, assigning a classification to individual parts of the information based on the part's relationship to the data pattern, and outputting the classified information to the user or software application.