US 11,990,232 B2
Clinical discovery wheel—a system to explore clinical concepts
Lucas de Melo Oliveira, Melrose, MA (US); Douglas Henrique Teodoro, Sao Paulo (BR); and Yuechen Qian, Lexington, MA (US)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 15/776,465
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 22, 2016, PCT No. PCT/IB2016/057019
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 16, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/093846, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 8, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/260,687, filed on Nov. 30, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2018/0330807 A1, Nov. 15, 2018
Int. Cl. G16H 40/63 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 40/63 (2018.01) 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions readable and executable by an electronic device to perform a method for navigating clinical information using a wheel structure in a graphical user interface, the non-transitory storage medium storing:
a medical ontology of clinical concepts;
instructions for annotating medical reports by associating clinical concepts with text segments of the medical reports;
instructions for displaying, on a graphical user interface (GUI), text segments of the medical reports with natural language processing (NLP) and regular expressions to associate the text segments with clinical concepts clustered according to categories from the medical ontology;
instructions for building and displaying, on the GUI, a wheel structure initially including a root region structured as a root concepts ring, wherein each arc segment of the root concepts ring corresponds to a respective clinical concept category of a plurality of clinical concept categories, wherein the plurality of clinical concept categories comprise clinical findings, symptoms, diagnoses, medical procedures, and body structures, wherein the root region comprises a square region;
instructions for receiving, via a user input device operating on the displayed root concepts ring or arc, a user selection of an arc segment representing a clinical concept category whereby a user-selected clinical concept category is identified;
instructions for, in response to the user selection of the arc segment representing a clinical concept category whereby the user-selected clinical concept category is identified, expanding a size of the wheel structure on the GUI by building and displaying a children concept ring or arc expanding the user-selected clinical concept category and at least partially encircling the root concepts ring or arc, the children concept ring or arc including arc segments representing clinical concepts of the user-selected clinical concept category, the children concept ring or arc not being displayed to the user until the user provides the user selection of the arc segment representing the clinical concept category, the children concept ring o r arc adjacent to but not in direct contact with the root concepts ring or arc;
instructions for receiving via the user input device operating on the displayed children concept ring or arc a user selection of an arc segment representing a clinical concept whereby a user-selected clinical concept is identified; and
instructions for building and displaying, adjacent the children concept ring or arc, an interactive timeline comprising arc segments or blocks representing medical reports annotated with the user-selected clinical concept, wherein the interactive timeline corresponds to a course of treatment of a particular disease;
wherein the arc segments represent medical reports annotated with the user-selected clinical concept that display at least a portion of a text segment of the medical report that is annotated with the user-selected clinical concept.