US 12,340,894 B2
Recommending at least one imaging protocol for scanning a patient
Sonal Sharma, Sawai Madhopur (IN); and Karasani Krishna Teja, Guntur (IN)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Jul. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/868,338.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 120 540.9 (DE), filed on Aug. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0048700 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 30/20 (2018.01) [A61B 6/54 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for recommending at least one imaging protocol for scanning a patient, the method comprising:
receiving, by a processor, an imaging protocol, wherein the imaging protocol comprises information pertaining to a set of imaging parameters for imaging the patient;
mapping the received imaging protocol to an imaging identifier based on plurality of standard imaging protocols stored in a second database;
determining a mapping score of the mapping between the received imaging protocol and the mapped imaging identifier based on an accuracy of the mapping;
determining a cluster from a plurality of clusters stored in a first database when the mapping score is below a first threshold value, wherein each cluster in the plurality of clusters is associated with a harmonized imaging protocol based on a clinical intent of the information; and
determining at least one imaging identifier associated with the determined cluster, wherein the determined at least one imaging identifier is one imaging identifier out of a plurality of imaging identifiers stored in the first database, wherein the first database comprises a plurality of harmonized imaging protocols, wherein each harmonized imaging protocol of the plurality of harmonized imaging protocols is associated with at least one imaging identifier out of the plurality of imaging identifiers, and wherein the plurality of imaging identifiers represents a clinical intent of the associated imaging protocol;
determining at least one harmonized imaging protocol out of the plurality of harmonized imaging protocols based on the determined at least one imaging identifier; and
providing the determined at least one harmonized imaging protocol on a graphical user interface.