JP4435530B2 - Medical image set processing system and medical image set processing method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medical image set processing system and a medical image set processing method for managing and processing an image set composed of a plurality of image data.

  Medical image diagnostic technology has made rapid progress with MRI apparatuses and X-ray CT apparatuses that have been put into practical use with the development of computer technology in the 1970s, and has become indispensable in today's medical care. Each image data generated by these devices is centrally managed in a hospital information system (HIS) or radiation department information system (RIS) connected via a network. By reading out desired image data from image data stored in the data server, for example, comparison of image data obtained by different image diagnostic apparatuses for the same patient, or obtained by the same image diagnostic apparatus. The past image data and the latest image data are compared to improve the diagnostic accuracy.

  Recently, the image data centrally managed in the image data server includes not only conventional two-dimensional image data but also, for example, an X-ray CT apparatus, an MRI apparatus, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and the like. The obtained three-dimensional image data, time-series two-dimensional image data, and further, time-series three-dimensional image data (so-called four-dimensional image data) have been included, and the data capacity is It is increasing rapidly.

A computer terminal (hereinafter referred to as a medical image collective processing system) connected via a network to a medical image diagnostic apparatus or an image data server that generates or stores such image data has the above-described medical image diagnostic apparatus or A method has been proposed that allows image data collected from an image data server to be easily searched and extracted without using database software by distributing the image data to a file having a file name with a storage destination identifier. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-188697 (pages 12-13 and 27-31)

  The medical image data is classified based on attribute information such as patient information, study information, series information, and image information based on the DICOM standard. When extracting desired image data from image data having such auxiliary information, according to the method of Patent Document 1, it is difficult to sufficiently extract only the above-described auxiliary information.

  For example, when setting image sets by selecting image data in a desired time phase from time-series two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data classified by study information, series information, and image information, or a series The method of Patent Document 1 does not sufficiently correspond to the case where image data in a desired slice slice is selected from image data in a plurality of slice slices classified by information and an image set is set.

  That is, when selecting the image data in the desired time phase or the desired slice cross section, the user (hereinafter referred to as an operator) selects from among several hundred pieces of image data captured by the medical image aggregate processing system. An image set had to be set by selecting a small number of image data. For this reason, the operator spends a great deal of effort in setting the image set. In particular, when updating the time phase and slice section, the above method requires the same amount of work as the initial setting, so the setting efficiency of the image set is high. Has been significantly reduced.

  The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and its purpose is to easily and accurately select a desired image set when an operator processes the image set using a processing application. It is an object of the present invention to provide a medical image set processing system and a medical image set processing method that can be set or updated.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the medical image set processing system according to the present invention according to claim 1 includes an image data storage unit that stores a plurality of image data and its accompanying information, and an image set conditional expression using the accompanying information. The image set setting means for setting a desired image set by setting the image data, and the image data constituting the image set based on the setting information set by the image set setting means from the image data storage means The image data extracting means for extracting and image set processing means for performing desired processing on the image set composed of the image data extracted by the image data extracting means are provided.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medical image set processing method according to the present invention, wherein the collected medical image data and its accompanying information are stored, and an image set conditional expression for a desired image set is set based on the accompanying information. A step of extracting medical image data constituting the image set based on a set image set conditional expression, and a step of performing a desired process on the image set formed of the extracted medical image data It is characterized by having.

  According to the present invention, when desired processing is performed on an image set using a processing application, an image set composed of image data selected from a large amount of image data can be set or updated easily and accurately. Is possible.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  The features of the embodiments of the present invention described below are as follows. First, an incidental information management list is generated based on the incidental information of image data obtained from a predetermined patient, and then the information is set using the information of the incidental information management list. The purpose is to set a desired image set based on the image set conditional expression.

(Configuration of medical image collection processing system)
The configuration of the medical image set processing system in the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of a medical image set processing system. This medical image set processing system 100 is a block diagram of image data supplied from a medical image diagnostic apparatus 25, an image data server 27, etc. An image database unit 10 that stores and generates a hierarchical incidental information management list based on the incidental information of the image data, and a conditional expression for setting a desired image set using the information of the incidental information management list A conditional expression setting unit 11 for setting and updating (hereinafter referred to as an image set conditional expression) and image data constituting a desired image set from the image data stored in the image database unit 10 are image sets. A search engine unit 12 for searching based on the conditional expression is provided.

  Further, the medical image collection processing system 100 includes a processing application unit 13 that performs processing for display or transfer of the image data of the image collection to an external system via the network 28, and an image collection condition. An image set setting screen used for setting an expression, a display unit 14 for displaying image data of an image set processed by the processing application unit 13, and an image set setting screen displayed on the display unit 14 An operation unit 15 for inputting commands for setting and updating an image set conditional expression, displaying an image set setting screen, and displaying image data of the image set, and system control for comprehensively controlling the above-described units. A portion 16 is provided.

  The image database unit 10 of the medical image collection processing system 100 includes a medical image diagnostic apparatus 25 such as an X-ray CT apparatus, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an MRI apparatus, and an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus via a network 28 or a normal line. These are connected to an image data server 27 in which image data obtained by the medical image diagnostic apparatus 25 is stored. Further, the above-described image database unit 10 is configured to be able to input image data from an external recording medium 26 such as a magneto-optical disk (MO).

  The image database unit 10 stores and manages DICOM format image information classified by patient ID, study ID, series ID, and image ID. The medical image diagnostic apparatus 25, the image data server 27, and an external recording medium An image data storage unit 22 that stores a plurality of pieces of image data supplied from 26 and image information including image data incidental information, and an incidental information management list generation unit 21 that generates an incidental information management list based on the incidental information. It has.

  In the image data storage unit 22, three-dimensional image information composed of a plurality of two-dimensional image data having different slice cross sections, or a plurality of two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data having different time phases are stored in time series. The configured 3D / 4D image information, and further, image information such as a cine image group generated by animation and a Capture image group obtained by collecting Capture images are stored.

  FIG. 2 schematically shows image information stored in the image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10. The minimum unit of image information includes, for example, one piece of two-dimensional image data and this image. It consists of incidental information such as patient ID, study ID, series ID, and image ID related to data. As the study ID, for example, “US-B” of a B-mode image by an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, “US-C” of a color Doppler image, “FSE (Fast-Spin-Echo) image of an FSE image by an MRI apparatus”. “MR-FSE” and “MR-EPI” of an EPI (Echo-planar-imaging) image are recorded. Further, as the series ID, for example, “T-1” to “T-100” of the time phase when the image data was collected, and further, as the image ID, for example, “I-1” to “I-1” of the slice section in the patient. "I-100" is recorded.

  Then, the incidental information management list generation unit 21 of the image database 10 monitors the image data storage unit 22, and when new image information is supplied to the image data storage unit 22, the incidental information is read and the incidental information is read. Generate a management list.

  FIG. 3 schematically shows auxiliary information classified into a hierarchical structure by the auxiliary information management list generation unit 21. For example, the first layer is a patient ID, the second layer is a diagnostic device (diagnostic modality), The incidental information management list is generated based on the study ID corresponding to the photographing method, the third layer is the series ID corresponding to the photographing time phase, and the fourth layer is the image ID corresponding to the photographing position (slice cross-sectional position). . However, the time phase of the third layer and the shooting position of the fourth layer may be interchanged.

  Next, the conditional expression setting unit 11 includes incidental information selected by the operator based on the information in the incidental information management list generated by the incidental information management list generation unit 21 of the image database unit 10, that is, patient ID, study ID, series. An image set conditional expression for setting a desired image set is set from the ID and the image ID. It is also possible to update or add by rewriting a part of the image set conditional expression already set.

  On the other hand, the search engine unit 12 receives a desired image set conditional expression selected by the operator from a plurality of image set conditional expressions set or updated by the conditional expression setting unit 11. Next, the image data constituting the image set indicated by the image set conditional expression is read from the image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10 and supplied to the processing application unit 13.

  The processing application unit 13 performs predetermined processing on the image data of the image set read by the search engine unit 12 in accordance with an operator command signal supplied via the system control unit 16. For example, the processing application unit 13 converts the image data supplied from the search engine unit 12 into a predetermined display format and displays it on the display unit 14, converts the image data into a file format such as a DICOM file, and the medical image set A transfer process for transferring to a viewer or the like provided outside the processing system 100 and a management process for storing and managing image data in the selected image set are performed.

  In addition to the normal two-dimensional image display, the above display processing includes three-dimensional by MPR (Multi-planner-reconstruction) processing, volume rendering processing or surface rendering processing, MIP (Maximum-Intensity-Projection) processing, etc. There are image display and moving image display using a plurality of pieces of image data obtained in time series. Also, MPR processing is performed on image data that is not displayed on the display unit 14, and management processing for storing the processed image data in a storage circuit (not shown) is performed.

  Next, the display unit 14 includes a display data storage circuit, a conversion circuit, and a monitor (not shown), and a display screen corresponding to an image set setting mode and an image data display mode for the conditional expression setting unit 11 to set an image set conditional expression. Set. The image set conditional expression data set by the conditional expression setting unit 11 and the image data processed by the processing application unit 13 are temporarily stored in the display data storage circuit. On the other hand, the conversion circuit performs D / A conversion and television format conversion on the data stored in the display data storage circuit to generate a video signal and displays it on the monitor.

  FIG. 4 shows an image set setting screen 30 displayed on the monitor of the display unit 14 when the image set setting mode is selected. The image set setting screen 30 includes a menu / toolbar display area 31 in which a general-purpose menu / toolbar is displayed, a selection tag display area 32 in which tags used for selection of various modes and input of command signals are displayed, An image set setting area 33 for setting an image set based on the information in the incidental information management list generated by the information management list generation unit 21 is provided. The selection tag display area 32 is a new registration for registering an image set setting tag 34 and an image data display tag 35 for selecting an image set setting mode and an image data display mode, and a newly created image set conditional expression. A tag 36 is provided.

  On the other hand, the image set setting area 33 includes a patient ID display column 37 for displaying the patient ID of the incidental information management list generated by the incidental information management list generating unit 21 of the image database unit 10, and a study ID display column for displaying the study ID. 38, an accompanying information ID display area 44 including a series ID display field 39 for displaying a series ID and an image ID display field 40 for displaying an image ID is provided.

  Further, the image set setting area 33 includes a conditional expression setting field 41 for newly setting or updating an image set conditional expression based on various IDs displayed in the incidental information ID display area 44, and the image set conditional expression. An image set name setting field 42 for setting an image set name for an image set corresponding to the image set, and a conditional expression list in which image set conditional expressions already set or newly registered image set conditional expressions are displayed as a list A display field 43 is provided.

  On the other hand, FIG. 5 shows an image data display screen 50 displayed on the display unit 14 in the image data display mode. This image data display screen 50 displays a menu / toolbar as in the image set setting screen 30 of FIG. An area 31 and a selection tag display area 32 are provided. The image data display screen 50 further includes an image data display area 45 for displaying image data of the set image set, a list of image set conditional expressions, or an image set name corresponding to each image set conditional expression. The icon / list display area 46 is displayed, and image data of the image set selected in these lists or icons is displayed in the image data display area 45.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the operation unit 15 is an interactive interface including an input device such as a keyboard, a trackball, and a mouse and a display panel on the operation panel. By using the input device and the display unit 14, the image set setting mode and the image data display mode are selected, the image set conditional expression is newly set or updated, and a command for new registration is input.

  On the other hand, the system control unit 16 controls the image database unit 10, the conditional expression setting unit 11, the search engine unit 12, the processing application unit 13, the display unit 14 and the operation unit 15, and performs medical image diagnosis. The apparatus 25 and the image data server 27 are requested to supply image data and accompanying information.

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Next, the procedure for setting and processing an image set in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. However, FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the above procedure in the present embodiment. In this embodiment, for example, the patient “A” with the patient ID “PA” is selected from a plurality of pieces of medical image information stored in the image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10. Applying the B-mode method (study ID “US-B”) by the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, the obtained image data (image ID “I−”) of the slice slice in the time phase T-10 (series ID “T-10”) 5 ”to“ I-50 ”) is set, and a case where desired processing is performed will be described.

  The operator of the medical image collection processing system 100 is obtained by first imaging the patient “A” with the medical image collection processing system 100 and the medical image diagnostic apparatus 25 or the image data server 27 connected. Medical image information collected is collected (step S1 in FIG. 6). In the medical image information collected at this time, as already shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of pieces of image data and accompanying information “patient ID”, “study ID”, “series ID”, “image ID” "It is included. The image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10 to which such medical image information is supplied from the medical image diagnostic apparatus 25 or the image data server 27 via an interface (not shown) is used as the image data of the medical image information. The supplementary information is stored in the storage circuit, and the supplementary information is supplied to the supplementary information management list generation unit 21.

  The incidental information management list generation unit 21 to which the incidental information is supplied generates the incidental information management list by classifying the above-mentioned IDs constituting the incidental information according to the hierarchy, and stores the generated incidental information management list in the storage unit (Step S2 in FIG. 6). For example, as shown in FIG. 3, time phases 1 to 4 of a B-mode image, a color Doppler image, an FSE image, an MR angio image, and an EPI image collected by an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus collected for a patient “A” are collected. If the medical image information in the phase M and the slice cross section 1 to the slice cross section N is supplied to the image data storage unit 22, the patient ID “PA” as the incidental information and the study associated with the patient ID. IDs “US-B”, “US-C”, “MR-FSE”, “MR-A”, and “MR-EPI” are stored in the patient ID storage unit and study ID storage unit of the incidental information management list generation unit 21 The series IDs “T-1” to “TM” corresponding to each of these study IDs are stored in the series ID storage unit, and the slice section ID “I-1” in each of the series IDs. Optimum "I-N" are stored respectively in the image ID storage unit.

  The image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10 already stores image data obtained for a plurality of patients other than the patient “A” and their associated information, and the associated information management list generating unit 21. Stores an incidental information management list generated based on the incidental information.

  In the medical image set processing system 100 in which the incidental information management list for the newly collected image data is generated, the operator can set the image set setting tag in the selection tag display area 32 that is always displayed on the monitor of the display unit 14. 34 is selected using the input device of the operation unit 15. The system control unit 16 that has received the selection signal from the operation unit 15 supplies a display command signal to the conditional expression setting unit 11, and the conditional expression setting unit 11 displays in accordance with a display format created in advance. The image set setting screen 30 is displayed on the monitor of the unit 14 (step S3 in FIG. 6).

  Further, the conditional expression setting unit 11 reads a plurality of patient IDs stored in the incidental information management list generation unit 21 of the image database unit 10 and displays them in a list in the patient ID display field 37 of the image set setting screen 30. In this case, the displayed patient ID includes the patient ID “P-B”, “P-C”,... "Patient ID" PA "is added.

  Next, the operator selects a desired patient ID “PA” from among a plurality of patient IDs displayed in a list using, for example, a mouse of an input device. The conditional expression setting unit 11 that has received the selection signal via the system control unit 16 stores the study IDs “US-B”, “US-C” of the patient “A” stored in the incidental information management list generation unit 21. “MR-FSE”, “MRA”, “MR-EPI”... Are read and displayed in the study ID display field 38 of the image set setting screen 30.

  Hereinafter, the desired study ID “US-B” is selected by the same procedure and the time phase “T-1” to the time phase “TM” of the ultrasonic B-mode image displayed in the series ID display field 39 is displayed. The desired time phase “T-10” is selected from the inside, and then, by selecting the time phase “T-10”, the cross-sectional positions of the slices in the time phase “T-10” displayed in the image ID display column 40 are displayed. Desired image IDs “I-5” to “I-50” are selected from the image IDs “I-1” to “IN” (step S4 in FIG. 6).

  Next, the conditional expression setting unit 11 selects an image set conditional expression (for example, “P-A * US-B * T-10 * I- (5-50) based on the ID information selected by the above-described method. ) ”) Is set and displayed in the conditional expression setting area 41 on the image set setting screen 30 of the display unit 14. In this case, the conditional expression setting unit 11 automatically sets the image set conditional expression based on the ID information selected in the patient ID display field 37, the study ID display field 38, the series ID display field 39, and the image ID display field 40. However, the operator may set manually (step S5 in FIG. 6).

  Next, the operator sets the image set name (for example, “D-1”) of the image set corresponding to the above-described image set conditional expression in the image set name setting area 42 (step S6 in FIG. 6). When the setting of the image set conditional expression and the image set name is completed, the operator selects the new registration tag 36 in the selection tag display area 32 using the input device.

  The conditional expression setting unit 11 receives the registration command signal supplied from the operation unit 15 via the system control unit 16 and sets the set image set name “D-1”, patient ID “PA”, and study ID. “US-B”, series ID “T-10”, and image IDs “I-5” to “I-50” are registered and stored in a storage circuit (not shown) and displayed in the conditional expression list display column 43.

  On the other hand, in the storage circuit of the conditional expression setting unit 11, IDs that constitute image set conditional expressions that have already been set for image information other than the patient “A” are stored. A list is displayed in the conditional expression list display field 43 together with the ID of “A”. FIG. 7 shows a display example in the conditional expression list display field 43, in which each ID of a newly registered image set conditional expression is displayed as a list. FIG. 8 shows another display example in the conditional expression list display field 43. As in this display example, the image set conditional expression set in the conditional expression setting area 41 may be displayed as it is (step of FIG. 6). S7).

  Also, by selecting an image set conditional expression already displayed in the conditional expression list display field 43 or an image set name corresponding to this image set conditional expression, and dragging and dropping it in the conditional expression setting area 41, After copying the image collection conditional expression, a new image collection conditional expression can be set by changing a part of the image collection conditional expression.

When the setting of the image set for a plurality of patients including the patient “A” is completed in this way, the operator selects the image data display tag 35 in the selection tag display area 32 of the image set setting screen 30. Upon receiving this selection command from the operation unit 15, the system control unit 16 supplies a command signal for displaying image data to the processing application unit 13. Then, the processing application unit 13 displays an image data display area 45 for displaying image data, a conditional expression list displayed in the conditional expression list display field 43, or an icon with an image set name in the conditional expression list. 6 is displayed on the monitor of the display unit 14 (step S8 in FIG. 6).

  FIG. 5 is a specific example in which a plurality of icons 47 are displayed in the icon / list display area 46. These icons 47 include, for example, image set names “D-1”, “D-2”, “D-3”, “ D-4 ”...“ DX ”are added with icon names. It should be noted that the first image data or representative image data in each image set may be displayed as a snapshot on these icons 47. Further, when confirming the image set conditional expression for the icon 47, the image set conditional expression corresponding to the icon 47 is moved by moving the pointer on the monitor to the desired icon 47 using the input device of the operation unit 15. (For example, P-A * US-B * T-10 * I- (5-50)) is displayed as a pop hint as shown in FIG.

  Next, the operator selects a plurality of icons 47 displayed in the icon / list display area 46 on the image data display screen 50 in FIG. 5 or an icon 47 corresponding to a desired image set from the conditional expression list (not shown) or The conditional expression list is selected using the input device, and dragged and dropped onto the image data display area 45 (step S9 in FIG. 6).

  On the other hand, the processing application unit 13 that has received the selection information from the operation unit 15 via the system control unit 16 supplies the search engine unit 12 with an image set conditional expression corresponding to the selected icon 47 or conditional expression list. On the other hand, the search engine unit 12 reads out image data of a desired image set from the image data storage unit 22 of the image database unit 10 based on the supplied image set conditional expression and supplies it to the processing application unit 13 (FIG. 6). Step S10).

  Next, the processing application unit 13 performs, for example, MPR processing, volume rendering processing, or MIP processing for three-dimensional display on the plurality of image data of the supplied image set, and obtains the obtained three-dimensional image data. Is displayed on the monitor of the display unit 14.

  If the icon of the image set conditional expression P-B * US-C * T- (50-80) * I-100 or the conditional expression list is selected in step S9, the monitor of the display unit 14 is selected. A moving image is displayed.

  Further, the processing application unit 13 performs processing for transferring the image data subjected to the display processing to a viewer or the like provided outside the medical image aggregate processing system 100 via the network 28, and storing and managing these image data. The process for performing is performed (step S11 of FIG. 6).

  According to the embodiment of the present invention described above, when setting an image set based on the auxiliary information of the image data, the image set is set using the image set conditional expression associated with the auxiliary information, Since the image data constituting the image set can be searched, the time required for setting and searching the image set can be shortened. In particular, it is possible to easily select image data in a desired period or a desired space from many image data collected in time series or three-dimensionally.

  Also, when changing the desired period or desired space, it can be easily changed by rewriting a part of the preset image set conditional expression, and a new image set conditional expression is set. In this case, it is possible to rewrite a part of the copied similar image set conditional expression.

  For this reason, when processing a desired image set, the desired image set can be easily and accurately set from a large number of pre-collected image data, and the operability in setting the image set is dramatically increased. As a result, the burden on the operator can be greatly reduced.

  As mentioned above, although the Example of this invention has been described, this invention is not limited to the above-mentioned Example, It can change and implement. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the image data obtained by the X-ray CT apparatus, the MRI apparatus, the X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has been described. However, the image data of other medical image diagnostic apparatuses may be used. . Moreover, although patient information, modality information, imaging method, imaging time phase information, and imaging position information have been described as incidental information of these image data, the present invention is not limited to these.

1 is a functional block diagram of a medical image set processing system in an embodiment of the present invention. The schematic diagram of the image information stored in the image database part of the Example. The schematic diagram of the incidental information classified into the hierarchical structure in the incidental information management list production | generation part of the Example. The figure which shows the specific example of the image set setting screen in the Example. The figure which shows the specific example of the image data display screen in the Example. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for setting and processing an image set according to the present exemplary embodiment. The figure which shows the specific example of the conditional expression list display column in a present Example. The figure which shows the other specific example of the conditional expression list display column in a present Example. The figure which shows the icon by which the image collection conditional expression was displayed by the pop hint in the present Example.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Image database part 11 ... Conditional expression setting part 12 ... Search engine part 13 ... Processing application part 14 ... Display part 15 ... Operation part 16 ... System control part 21 ... Attached information management list generation part 22 ... Image data storage part 25 ... Medical image diagnostic apparatus 26 ... external recording medium 27 ... image data server 28 ... network 100 ... medical image set processing system

Claims (10)

Image data storage means for storing a plurality of image data and its accompanying information;
An image set setting means for setting a desired image set by setting an image set conditional expression using the accompanying information ;
Image data extraction means for extracting image data constituting the image set from the image data storage means based on setting information set by the image set setting means;
A medical image set processing system comprising image set processing means for performing desired processing on an image set composed of the image data extracted by the image data extraction means.   The image data storage means stores image data obtained by at least one of a medical image diagnostic apparatus such as an X-ray CT apparatus, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and an MRI apparatus and associated information thereof. The medical image set processing system according to claim 1.   2. The image set setting unit sets a desired image set based on at least one of incidental information of patient information, modality information, imaging method, imaging time phase information, and imaging position information. Medical image collection processing system. A conditional expression update unit is provided, wherein the image set setting unit updates a part of the preset image set conditional expression by the conditional expression update unit, and sets a new image set. 1 the medical image collection processing system according.   Image set display means for displaying an image set icon corresponding to the image set is provided, and the image data extraction means extracts a desired image set by selecting the image set icon displayed by the image set display means. The medical image set processing system according to claim 1. 6. The medical image group processing system according to claim 5 , wherein image data of an image group corresponding to the image group icon is displayed as a snapshot on the image group icon displayed by the image group display means. 6. The medical image set processing system according to claim 5, wherein a conditional expression of the image set corresponding to the icon is displayed as a pop hint on the icon displayed by the image set display means.   2. The image set processing unit performs at least one of processing for displaying image data of a set image set, processing for transferring, and processing for storage management. The medical image collection processing system described.   Image data display means for displaying image data, wherein the image set processing means drags a desired icon displayed by the image set display means to an image data display area set by the image data display means; 7. The medical image set processing system according to claim 6, wherein processing of a desired image set is executed by performing an AND drop. Storing the collected medical image data and its accompanying information;
Setting an image set conditional expression for a desired image set based on the incidental information;
Extracting medical image data constituting the image set based on the set image set conditional expression;
A medical image set processing method comprising a step of performing a desired process on an image set composed of the extracted medical image data.

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