US 12,243,206 B2
System and methods for qualifying medical images
Michael D. Abramoff, University Heights, IA (US); Ben Clark, Cedar Rapids, IA (US); Eric Talmage, Byron Center, MI (US); John Casko, Iowa City, IA (US); Warren Clarida, Cedar Rapids, IA (US); Meindert Niemeijer, Coralville, IA (US); Timothy Dinolfo, Coralville, IA (US); and Tay Stutts, Iowa City, IA (US)
Assigned to Digital Diagnostics Inc., Coralville, IA (US)
Filed by Digital Diagnostics Inc., Coralville, IA (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,016.
Application 17/558,016 is a continuation of application No. 15/466,636, filed on Mar. 22, 2017, granted, now 11,232,548.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/311,660, filed on Mar. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0114719 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 7/0002 (2013.01) [G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G06T 2207/10101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30041 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A system for qualifying medical images submitted by a user for diagnostic analysis comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising memory with instructions encoded thereon; and
one or more processors configured to, when executing the instructions, perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of retinal images input by a user, each of the plurality of retinal images capturing a different portion of a retina, each different portion of a retina corresponding to a respective predefined protocol requiring an anatomical object to be at a particular location within the respective retinal image, the respective predefined protocol being of a plurality of predefined protocols;
determining that a retinal image of the plurality of retinal images is a non-conforming image based on the retinal image not conforming to its respective predefined protocol, while determining that other ones of the plurality of retinal images conform to their respective predefined protocols;
generating for display a graphical interface to the user, the graphical interface comprising:
for each respective predefined protocol of the plurality of predefined protocols, a respective section comprising a description of the respective predefined protocol and an area for an image corresponding to the respective predefined protocol;
for each of the other ones of the plurality of retinal images that conform to their respective predefined protocols, a copy of the retinal respective retinal image in its respective area of its respective section;
for the retinal image that is determined to be a non-conforming image, omitting the retinal image from its respective section and instead including a generic placeholder cell in its respective area that excludes any retinal image;
receiving a resubmitted image; and
replacing the placeholder cell with the resubmitted image responsive to determining that the resubmitted image conforms to the respective predefined protocol corresponding to the captured portion of the retina.