JP2013037453A - Medical image processing system and image diagnostic device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image processing system and an image diagnostic device for interpreting a medical image of a client, using a thin client server.SOLUTION: The medical image processing system includes an image diagnostic device and a plurality of client servers, which are interconnected by a network. The image diagnostic device includes: a division position setting part that sets a position for dividing a subject into a plurality of sections; a reconfiguration part that reconfigures medical image date of the subject; an image dividing part that divides the reconfigured medical image into multiple pieces of medical image data for each of the plurality of sections; an image selection part that selects medical image data for a predetermined section from the multiple pieces of medical image data for each of the plurality of sections; and a first communication part that transmits the medical image data for the predetermined section to a predetermined client server corresponding to the predetermined section. The client server includes a second communication part that receives the medical image data, an image processing part, and a section image storing part.

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to a medical image processing system and an image diagnostic apparatus.

  In recent years, an image diagnostic apparatus such as a CT apparatus has been able to acquire a whole body image of a patient at once due to improved functions. The acquired medical image is interpreted by a site specialist for each site.

  On the other hand, a thin client type information processing system has attracted attention in recent years, and a thin client type system has begun to be introduced in medical treatment. The thin client type medical system is a system in which the main server controls the thin client in a network such as an in-hospital LAN to which one main server and a plurality of clients (thin clients) are connected. The thin client terminal is not equipped with a hard disk and stores applications and data for operating the thin client terminal on the server side. As a specific example, the server stores image data captured by another image processing apparatus, performs image processing, and starts various application programs in response to requests from the thin client terminal. The thin client terminal has a data display function. And has only a minimum input function.

  Since the thin client terminal does not store the application program and data in the thin client terminal itself, the processing load on the thin client terminal side can be reduced and data can be managed centrally on the server. Further, since no hard disk is installed, the thin client terminal itself can be inexpensive, and more thin client terminals can be introduced and connected to the network.

  For example, for a medical image of a patient, when a plurality of thin client servers interpret a specific part, the main server side has a patient's whole body medical image and whole body report data, and the thin client server uses the patient's whole body medical image. The image and the report data of the part to be interpreted are acquired from the main server each time and displayed.

JP 2002-360519 A

However, when interpreting a medical image of a patient using a conventional thin client system, the whole body image is transferred to each thin client server as one data, and the processing transfer time is enormous because the data is large. End up. In addition, the thin client server cannot interpret images until the transfer of whole body medical image data is completed. For example, when an image is transmitted from the patient's head, the thin client server that specially interprets the legs is the last one. An image will be received, and it will take some time to start interpretation. In addition, the whole-body medical image transferred to the thin client server interprets a predetermined part by a region specialist, so a medical image in a non-special part is unnecessary and is wasted.
Even when the whole body image is divided into a plurality of images and transmitted to all the thin client servers at the same time, the communication band is the same, so that communication may eventually take time.

  The present embodiment has been made in consideration of such points, and an object thereof is to provide a medical image processing system and an image diagnostic apparatus capable of interpreting a medical image of a patient using a thin client server.

  The medical image processing system according to the embodiment is a medical image processing system in which an image diagnostic apparatus and a plurality of client servers are connected via a network. The image diagnostic apparatus sets a position at which the subject is divided into a plurality of parts. A division position setting unit; a data collection unit that collects medical image data of the subject; a reconstruction unit that reconstructs medical image data collected by the data collection unit; and the medical device reconstructed by the reconstruction unit An image dividing unit that divides image data into medical image data for each of the plurality of parts based on the position set by the division position setting unit, and medical image data for the plurality of parts divided by the image dividing unit. An image database to be stored; and an image selection unit that selects medical image data of a predetermined part from a plurality of medical image data stored in the image database; A first communication unit that transmits medical image data of the predetermined part selected by the image selection unit to a predetermined client server corresponding to the predetermined part, wherein the client server The second communication unit that receives the medical image data of the predetermined part transmitted from the first communication unit of the diagnostic apparatus, and the medical image data of the predetermined part received by the second communication unit An image processing unit to be processed, and a part image storage unit for storing medical image data of the predetermined part that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing unit.

  The image diagnostic apparatus according to the embodiment includes a division position setting unit that sets a position at which a subject is divided into a plurality of parts in the image diagnostic apparatus of a medical image processing system connected to a plurality of client servers via a network; A data collection unit that collects medical image data of a subject, a reconstruction unit that reconstructs medical image data collected by the data collection unit, and a medical image of the subject that is reconstructed by the reconstruction unit, An image dividing unit that divides the image into medical image data for each of the plurality of parts based on the position set by the division position setting unit; and an image database that stores medical image data for each of the plurality of parts divided by the image dividing unit; An image selection unit for selecting medical image data of a predetermined part from a plurality of medical image data stored in the image database, and the image selection unit The medical image data of the serial given site, and having a first communication unit for transmitting each given client server corresponding to the site, the.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a medical image processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The block diagram which shows the detail of a site | part dedicated thin client server. The flowchart which shows the fundamental operation | movement in which an image diagnostic apparatus transmits a medical image to each site | part dedicated thin client server. The figure which shows an example of the setting method of the division | segmentation position of a patient. The figure which shows the example which determines the transmission order to the site | part dedicated thin client server, and transmits the medical image of a corresponding site | part. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation of reconstructing an image in ascending order of waiting for an interpretation job and transmitting a medical image to a site-specific thin client server. The conceptual diagram at the time of providing the client server for whole bodies. The figure which shows the example of incidental information. The conceptual diagram when an image server connects directly with the site | part dedicated thin client server.

  Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a medical image processing system 800 according to an embodiment. The medical image processing system 800 includes an image diagnostic apparatus 1, a site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23), a thin client 3 (31 a to 31 c, 32 a to 32 b, 33 a), and an image server 5.

  The diagnostic imaging apparatus 1, the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23), and the image server 5 are connected to be communicable with each other via a local area network (LAN) in the hospital. The site-specific thin client server 2 receives a medical image of the corresponding site from the image diagnostic apparatus 1 and stores applications and data for operating the thin client 3.

  The thin clients 31 a to 31 c, 32 a to 32 b, and 33 a are connected to the site-specific thin client servers 21, 22, and 23, respectively, and operate as the site-specific thin client server 2. That is, the thin client 3 has only a data display function and a minimum input function.

  The image server 5 is a server for long-term storage of images provided in, for example, a PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), and stores medical images acquired by the image diagnostic apparatus 1.

  The image diagnostic apparatus 1 is a modality, and performs image diagnosis by taking a medical image of a patient (subject). In the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1, the control unit 10, the display unit 12, the operation unit 13, the imaging unit 14, the communication unit 15, the storage unit 16, the information storage medium 17, the patient information database 18, and the image database 19 can communicate with each other via a bus. Connected to and configured.

  The display unit 12 is a monitor or the like, and displays document data, image data, and the like based on the control of the control unit 10. The operation unit 13 is an input device such as a touch panel or operation keys. The imaging unit 14 captures a medical image of a patient. The communication unit 15 is connected to the in-hospital LAN and communicates with the site-specific thin client server 2 and the image server 5.

  The storage unit 16 is a work area such as the control unit 10 or the communication unit 15 and can be realized by a RAM (Random Access Memory) or the like. The storage unit 16 temporarily stores the patient's whole body medical image data and incidental information taken by the imaging unit 14.

  The information storage medium 17 (a computer readable medium) stores programs, data, and the like, and can be realized by a hard disk, a memory (Flash Memory, ROM: Read Only Memory), or the like. The information storage medium 17 stores a program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the present embodiment (a program for causing a computer to execute processing of each unit), a plurality of applications, and the like.

  The control unit 10 is an arithmetic device that performs overall control of the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 and performs other various arithmetic processes and control processes. The function of the control unit 10 can be realized by hardware such as various processors (CPU, DSP, etc.), ASIC (gate array, etc.), and programs. The control unit 10 performs various processes of the present embodiment based on a program (data) stored in the information storage medium 17.

  The control unit 10 includes a data collection unit 101, a reconstruction unit 102, an image division unit 103, an interpretation job standby number acquisition unit 104, a scheduling unit 105, an image selection unit 106, and a division position setting unit 107.

  The division position setting unit 107 sets a position for dividing the subject (the patient's whole body) into a plurality of parts. The data collection unit 101 collects the whole body medical image data of the patient imaged by the imaging unit 14. The reconstruction unit 102 performs predetermined image processing on the medical image data collected by the data collection unit 101 to reconstruct the medical image data. The image dividing unit 103 divides the whole-body medical image data reconstructed by the reconstructing unit 102 into region-specific medical image data and stores it in the image database 19. Details will be described later.

  The interpretation job standby number acquisition unit 104 acquires the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job, which is calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 of the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23). The scheduling unit 105 is based on the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job in the site dedicated thin client servers 21, 22, 23 acquired by the image interpretation job waiting number acquisition unit 104, and the site dedicated thin client servers 21, 22, 23. The order in which the medical image data for each region is transmitted is determined.

  The image selection unit 106 selects medical image data stored in the image database 19 based on the transmission order of the medical image data for each part determined by the scheduling unit 105, and transmits the medical image data via the communication unit 15.

The patient information database 18 stores in advance physical features such as patient height and weight.
The image database 19 includes at least a patient ID, an examination ID, and a series included in the supplementary information of the plurality of region-specific medical image data reconstructed by the reconstructing unit 102 and divided by the image dividing unit 103 and the region-specific medical image data. The ID and the division position when divided into each part are stored.

  FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23). The site-specific thin client server 2 includes a control unit 200, a communication unit 205, a storage unit 206, an information storage medium 207, and a site image database 209.

The communication unit 205, the storage unit 206, and the information storage medium 207 are the same as the functions in the image diagnostic apparatus 1 and will not be described.
The part image database 209 stores the reconstructed medical image data of the part corresponding to the part-only thin client server 2 transmitted from the image diagnostic apparatus 1. At this time, additional information including at least patient ID, examination ID, series ID, and division information indicating a part is also attached to the medical image data.

The control unit 200 includes a data relay unit 213, an interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212, and an image processing unit 211. The image processing unit 211 performs image processing on the medical image transmitted from the image diagnostic apparatus 1.
The interpretation job waiting number calculation unit 212 calculates the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job. That is, the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 calculates a value of medical image data (for example, the number of medical images) that has not been interpreted among medical images stored in the part image database 209.
The data relay unit 213 relays the medical image image-processed by the image processing unit 211 based on the value of the medical image data calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 to the thin client 3 or the whole-body thin client server 4 described later. Send.

  The thin client 3 (31a to 31c, 32a to 32b, 33a) is a terminal or the like and functions as an interpretation terminal connected to the site-specific thin client server 2. The thin client 3 acquires a medical image to be interpreted from the site-specific thin client server 2 and displays it on the monitor. The image interpretation doctor interprets the image by viewing the medical image displayed on the monitor of the thin client 3, and inputs the image interpretation result (report). The input report is stored in the part image database 209 as supplementary information of the medical image.

  Next, the operation of the medical image processing system 800 configured as described above will be described.

<Example 1>
FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of a basic operation in which the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 transmits a medical image to each site-specific thin client server 2.

  The division position setting unit 107 of the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 sets a division position for dividing the entire patient body into each part based on the patient's height, weight, and physical characteristics stored in the patient information database 18 (step S101). For example, the parts such as the head, chest, abdomen, leg 1 and leg 2 and the division positions thereof are set.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a method for setting the division position of the patient in step S101. In the case of CT, when the width of a patient's body is acquired using a scanner image and plotted at a position in the longitudinal direction of the body (except for the part (F) in FIG. 4), the body width changes rapidly. (A)-(E)) are detected and divided. At this time, with respect to the part (F) where the change in the width of the body such as the chest and the abdomen is not large, from the positions (B) and (C), a predetermined ratio (example: (B) in FIG. 4) (C: 7: 3 position). Note that the division of the whole-body image is not limited to the vertical division in the body axis direction.
The method for setting the division position of the patient is not limited to the above example. As another example, a marker serving as a mark of a part may be placed on a bed and automatically recognized.

  Next, the imaging unit 14 of the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 captures the whole body of the patient, and the data collection unit 101 collects the captured medical image data and incidental information (for example, patient ID, examination ID, series ID, etc.) and stores it. 16 is temporarily stored (step S103).

  Next, the reconstruction unit 102 reconstructs the medical image data collected by the data collection unit 101 in step S103 and transmits the medical image data to the image server 5 via the communication unit 15 (step S105). Next, the image dividing unit 103 divides the medical image data reconstructed in step S105 at the division position set by the division position setting unit 107 in step S101, creates a medical image for each part, and stores it in the image database 19. (Step S107). At this time, the supplementary information including at least the patient ID, the examination ID, the series ID, and the division position collected in step S103 is attached to the medical image for each region and stored in the image database 19.

The created medical image for each site is transmitted to the corresponding site-specific thin client server 2. In the site-specific thin client server 2, the image processing unit 211 performs image processing on the transmitted medical image and stores the image in the site image database 209.
The interpreting doctor of each part requests a medical image via the operation unit of the thin client 3 in order to interpret the medical image using the terminal of the thin client 3. The data relay unit 213 of the part-only thin client server 2 relays and transmits the medical image stored in the part image database 209 to at least one thin client 3.

Here, the image processing speed of the image processing unit 211 is considered to be different for each part because the processing content and the amount of image differ depending on the part. For example, a site-specific thin client server for abdomen requires processing to analyze a medical image and discriminate each organ such as the stomach and duodenum, and takes more time for image processing than other site-specific thin client servers. Therefore, the data relay unit 213 cannot perform relay transmission to the thin client 3 unless the image processing of the medical image is completed, and as a result, the site-specific thin client server 2 waits for interpretation of the medical image.
In addition, since the amount of images relayed and transmitted from the data relay unit 213 to the thin client 3 at a time is large, it takes time for the interpretation doctor to interpret, and the medical image waiting for the next interpretation is a dedicated thin client for the region. It is accumulated at the server 2.
As described above, the data value of the medical image waiting for interpretation is calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 as the interpretation job standby number.

  Therefore, the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit 104 acquires the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 of the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23). (Step S109).

  Next, the scheduling unit 105 transmits the medical image data of the corresponding site to the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23) based on the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job acquired in step S109. The order to be performed is determined (step S111).

  The data value of the medical image waiting for the image interpretation job acquired in step S109 indicates that the more the value, the more the image interpretation work has not progressed. The image selection unit 106 starts from the site-specific thin client server 2 with the smallest data value of the medical image waiting for the interpretation job (in the order determined in advance if the data values of the waiting medical images are the same). If the medical image of the corresponding part is selected and transmitted, the interpretation can be started earlier by the thin client 3 connected to the thin client server 2 dedicated to each part. Therefore, the order of transmission to the site-specific thin client server 2 determined by the scheduling unit 105 in step S111 is the order in which the medical image data waiting for the image interpretation job is small.

  The image selection unit 106 sequentially selects the medical images of the parts corresponding to the part-dedicated thin client server 2 from the image database 19 based on the order of transmission to the part-dedicated thin client server 2 determined in step S111. (Step S113).

  FIG. 5 shows an example in which the transmission order to the site-specific thin client server 2 is determined and the medical image of the corresponding site is transmitted. For example, if the number of medical image data waiting for an interpretation job is one for the head-only thin client server 21, three for the abdominal thin client server 22, and two for the leg dedicated thin client server 23. The image selection unit 106 is in the order of the site-specific thin client server 2 with the smaller number of medical image data waiting for the interpretation job, that is, the head dedicated thin client server 21, the leg dedicated thin client server 23, and the abdominal dedicated thin client server. The medical images of the corresponding parts are selected from the image database 19 in the order of the client server 22 and transmitted via the communication unit 15.

  As a result, the medical image of the patient is divided according to the region, thereby eliminating unnecessary transmission of the medical image. Also, according to the data value of the medical image waiting for the interpretation job, by sending the medical image of each part in turn to the corresponding part-dedicated thin client server, the number of waiting for the interpretation job disappears first. Despite having a thin client server, there is no longer waiting for the end of transmission to another part-dedicated thin client server that has a large number of waiting for interpretation jobs. Can be interpreted.

<Example 2>
FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of an operation for reconstructing images in the order of the site-specific thin client servers 2 having the smallest number of interpretation job standbys and transmitting a medical image to each site-only thin client server 2.

  Since the setting of the division position of the division position setting unit 107 in step S201 is the same as that in step S101, the description thereof is omitted. Next, the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit 104 acquires the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit 212 of the site-specific thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23) ( Step S203). Next, the scheduling unit 105 determines the order of the parts in which the reconstruction unit 102 reconstructs the medical image data based on the value of the medical image data waiting for the interpretation job acquired in step S203 (step S205).

  Next, the imaging unit 14 of the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 captures the whole body of the patient, and the data collection unit 101 collects medical image data and temporarily stores it in the storage unit 16 (step S207). The collected medical image data is also transmitted to the image server 5.

  Next, the image division unit 103 divides the medical image data collected by the data collection unit 101 in step S207 at the division position set in step S201, and creates medical image data for each part (step S209).

  Next, the reconstruction unit 102 reconstructs the medical image data for each region, which is generated by the image dividing unit 103 in Step S209, according to the order of the regions determined in Step S205 (Step S211). Next, the image selection unit 106 selects medical images in the order of reconstruction in step S211, and transmits them to the corresponding site-specific thin client server 2 via the communication unit 15 (step S213). Note that this transmission does not have to be performed after completion of reconfiguration of all parts, and for parts that have been reconfigured, transmission may be performed without waiting for completion of reconfiguration of other parts. Good.

  As a result, the whole body medical image data of the patient is not reconstructed at a time, but is reconstructed in ascending order of the number of jobs waiting for interpretation after being divided for each part, which is necessary for reconstructing medical image data. Time is shortened and faster interpretation is possible.

<Example 3>
Note that since some interpretation doctors may make judgments by looking at the whole body medical image of the patient, the medical image processing system 800 may include the whole body thin client server 4 that handles the whole body medical image of the patient. A conceptual diagram in this case is shown in FIG. The whole-body thin client server 4 is directly connected to the site-specific thin client server 2 (in FIG. 7, the head dedicated thin client server 21, the abdominal dedicated thin client server 22, and the leg dedicated thin client server 23). The whole body thin client server 4 forms a client server cluster with a plurality of site-specific thin client servers 2. The whole body thin client server 4 is communicably connected to the thin clients 43a, 43b, and stores applications and data for operating the thin clients 43a, 43b,.

The operation of transmitting a medical image corresponding to the site-specific thin client server 2 from the image diagnostic apparatus 1 when the whole body thin client server 4 is provided is the same as in the first or second embodiment.
In the part-only thin client server 2, the image processing unit 211 performs image processing of the medical image, and the data relay unit 213 transmits the corresponding part of the medical image to the whole body thin client server 4. At this time, since the data relay unit 213 also transmits incidental information (patient ID, examination ID, series ID, and division position information) to the whole-body thin client server 4, the additional information is added to the whole-body thin client server 4. Based on this, it is possible to collect medical images in the same examination and the same series of the same patient and generate a medical image of the whole body. The whole-body thin client server 4 performs various image processing on the generated whole-body medical image, and relays it to the thin clients 43 a, 43 b... Connected to the whole-body thin client server 4.

  Here, an example of the incidental information is shown in FIG. FIG. 8 shows a case where the patient is divided into three, and the information on the division position indicates “1/3” as the head, “2/3” as the abdomen, and “3/3” as the leg. Based on this division position information, the whole body thin client server 4 can check whether the whole body medical images of the patient are prepared in the same examination ID and the same series ID in the specific patient. And it can function as a thin client server in the whole body medical image of the patient.

  As a result, the whole body medical image of the patient can be image-processed by the whole body thin client server 4. In addition, it is possible to check whether there is a whole body of medical images of each part in the same examination ID and the same series ID in a specific patient.

<Example 4>
Alternatively, the image server 5 may be directly connected to the site-specific thin client server 2, and medical images of each site in a specific patient may be transmitted from the site-only thin client server 2 and stored in the image server 5. A conceptual diagram of this case is shown in FIG.

  The image server 5 is a server for storing medical images for a long time. In general, images stored in the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 or the site-specific thin client server 2 have a short storage period, and are deleted after a certain period. Therefore, the image server 5 stores data for a long time. Medical image data is stored in In the first to third embodiments, the whole body medical image of the patient is transmitted from the diagnostic imaging apparatus 1 to the image server 5. In this embodiment, the medical image of each part is sent from the dedicated thin client server 2 to the image server 5. To generate and store a whole body medical image.

The image server 5 receives the medical image of each part of the patient relay-transmitted from the data relay unit 213 of the part-only thin client server 2 (21, 22, 23). At this time, incidental information (patient ID, examination ID, series ID, and division position information) shown in FIG. 8 is also attached to the medical image and received. The image server 5 can check from the incidental information of the received medical image whether the whole body medical image of the patient has been prepared in the same examination ID and the same series ID in the specific patient. And it can function as a file server in the whole body medical image of the patient.
The medical image data transmitted from the part-only thin client server 2 to the image server 5 may be deleted from the part image database 209.

  This eliminates the need for the image diagnostic apparatus 1 to transmit image data redundantly to the site-specific thin client server 2 and the image server 5, and makes it easier to concentrate on operations for patients.

  According to the embodiment described above, when a medical image of a patient is divided into parts and transmitted to a client server dedicated to each part, it is wasted by sending in order of few jobs waiting for interpretation. There is no transmission of medical images, and interpretation can be performed more quickly.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was explained in full detail with reference to drawings, the specific structure is not restricted to this embodiment, The design change etc. of the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention are included.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Image diagnostic apparatus, 2 (21, 22, 23) ... Site-specific thin client server, 3 (31a-31c, 32a-32b, 33a) ... Thin client, 4 ... Whole body thin client server, 5 ... Image server, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Control part, 12 ... Display part, 13 ... Operation part, 14 ... Imaging part, 15 ... Communication part, 16 ... Memory | storage part, 17 ... Information storage medium, 18 ... Patient information database, 19 ... Image database, 101 ... Data Collection unit 102 ... reconstruction unit 103 ... image division unit 104 ... interpretation job standby number acquisition unit 105 ... scheduling unit 106 ... image selection unit 800 ... medical image processing system

Claims (9)

In a medical image processing system in which an image diagnostic apparatus and a plurality of client servers are connected via a network,
The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes:
A division position setting unit for setting a position at which the subject is divided into a plurality of parts;
A data collection unit for collecting medical image data of the subject;
A reconstruction unit for reconstructing medical image data collected by the data collection unit;
An image dividing unit that divides the medical image data reconstructed by the reconstructing unit into medical image data for each of the plurality of parts based on the position set by the division position setting unit;
An image database for storing medical image data for each of the plurality of parts divided by the image dividing unit;
An image selection unit that selects medical image data of a predetermined part from a plurality of medical image data stored in the image database;
A first communication unit that transmits medical image data of the predetermined part selected by the image selection unit to a predetermined client server corresponding to the predetermined part, and
The client server is
A second communication unit that receives medical image data of the predetermined part transmitted from the first communication unit of the diagnostic imaging apparatus;
An image processing unit that performs image processing on the medical image data of the predetermined part received by the second communication unit;
A medical image processing system comprising: a part image storage unit that stores medical image data of the predetermined part that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing unit. The client server is
An interpretation job waiting number calculating unit for calculating a data value for waiting for a medical image interpretation job;
The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes:
An interpretation job standby number acquisition unit for acquiring a data value for waiting for an interpretation job, calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit of the client server;
A scheduling unit that determines a data transmission order to the client server based on a data value that is acquired by the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit and that waits for a medical image interpretation job in each client server;
The image selection unit selects medical image data corresponding to each client server from the image database in order of data transmission to the client server determined by the scheduling unit,
The first communication unit transmits the medical image data of the part selected by the image selection unit to the corresponding client server in the data transmission order determined by the scheduling unit.
The medical image processing system according to claim 1. The scheduling unit of the diagnostic imaging apparatus determines a data transmission order from a client server having a small value of data waiting for an interpretation job acquired by the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit.
The medical image processing system according to claim 2. The division position setting unit of the diagnostic imaging apparatus captures an image of the subject based on at least one of physical characteristics of the subject or a marker written in advance on a bed on which the subject is placed. Set the division position,
The medical image processing system according to claim 1. In a medical image processing system in which an image diagnostic apparatus and a plurality of client servers are connected via a network,
The client server is
A second communication unit that receives medical image data of a predetermined part;
An image processing unit that performs image processing on the medical image data of the predetermined part received by the second communication unit;
Of the medical image data of the predetermined part subjected to image processing by the image processing unit, an interpretation job standby number calculation unit for calculating a data value for waiting for an interpretation job;
Have
The diagnostic imaging apparatus includes:
A division position setting unit for setting a position at which the subject is divided into a plurality of parts;
An interpretation job standby number acquisition unit that acquires a value of data waiting for an interpretation job, calculated by the interpretation job standby number calculation unit of the client server;
Scheduling for determining the order in which the medical image data of the part corresponding to each client server is reconstructed based on the value of the data waiting for the medical image interpretation job in each client server acquired by the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit And
A data collection unit for collecting medical image data of the subject;
An image dividing unit that divides the medical image data collected by the data collecting unit into medical image data for each of the plurality of parts based on the position set by the division position setting unit;
Based on the order of reconstructing the medical image data of the part determined by the scheduling unit, a reconstruction unit that sequentially reconstructs the medical image data of the plurality of parts image-divided by the image dividing unit;
And a first communication unit configured to sequentially transmit the medical image data for each of the plurality of parts reconstructed by the reconstructing unit to a corresponding client server. The medical images of the respective parts are received from the plurality of client servers, and the same examination and the same series of medical images in the predetermined subject are collected based on the supplementary information of the received medical images to obtain the medical images of the predetermined subject. A client server for generating and performing image processing on the medical image of the subject;
The medical image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the medical image processing system is a medical image processing system. The medical image of each part is received from the plurality of client servers, and the same examination and the same series of medical images in the predetermined subject are collected based on the supplementary information of the received medical images, and the medical images of the predetermined subject are collected. An image server that functions as a file server;
The medical image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the medical image processing system is a medical image processing system. In an image diagnostic apparatus for a medical image processing system connected to a plurality of client servers via a network,
A division position setting unit for setting a position at which the subject is divided into a plurality of parts;
A data collection unit for collecting medical image data of the subject;
A reconstruction unit for reconstructing medical image data collected by the data collection unit;
An image dividing unit for dividing the medical image of the subject reconstructed by the reconstructing unit into medical image data for each of the plurality of regions based on the position set by the division position setting unit;
An image database for storing medical image data for each of the plurality of parts divided by the image dividing unit;
An image selection unit that selects medical image data of a predetermined part from a plurality of medical image data stored in the image database;
A first communication unit that transmits medical image data of the predetermined part selected by the image selection unit to a predetermined client server corresponding to the part; and
A diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising: An interpretation job standby number acquisition unit for acquiring a data value for waiting for a medical image interpretation job calculated by the client server;
A scheduling unit that determines a data transmission order to the client server based on a data value that is acquired by the interpretation job standby number acquisition unit and that waits for a medical image interpretation job in each client server;
The image selection unit selects medical image data corresponding to each client server from the image database in order of data transmission to the client server determined by the scheduling unit,
The first communication unit transmits the medical image data of the part selected by the image selection unit to the corresponding client server in the data transmission order determined by the scheduling unit.
The diagnostic imaging apparatus according to claim 8.

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