Ensuring referential integrity of medical image data

US9070095B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Becker · Baiersdorf, DE
• Karlheinz Dorn · Kalchreuth, DE
• Andrew John Hewett · Erlangen, DE
• Armin Michel · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2008
• Grant date: Jun 30, 2015
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H30/20
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps.