Global Patent Index - EP 1314121 A1

EP 1314121 A1 20030528 - SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AID DIAGNOSES USING CROSS-REFERENCED KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGE DATABASES

Title (en)

SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AID DIAGNOSES USING CROSS-REFERENCED KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGE DATABASES

Title (de)

SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR UNTERSTÜTZUNG VON DIAGNOSEN DURCH EXPERTEN- UND BILDDATENBANKEN MIT QUERVERWEISEN

Title (fr)

SYSTEME ET PROCEDE DESTINES A L'AIDE AU DIAGNOSTIC AU MOYEN DE BASES DE DONNEES D'IMAGES ET DE CONNAISSANCES A REFERENCES CROISEES

Publication

EP 1314121 A1 20030528 (EN)

Application

EP 01961804 A 20010731

Priority

  • US 0123921 W 20010731
  • US 22257300 P 20000801
  • US 27528201 P 20010313
  • US 30791901 P 20010726

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0211035A1] The present invention is a method and apparatus for increasing the usefulness of visual knowledge in a number of applications. It distills the relationships between characteristics and hypotheses into database form (104), thereby organizing visual information in a manner suitable to aid the user in the investigation of the various hypotheses (medical diagnosis, pill identification, plant/animal identification, cause of death, cause of accident, etc.). The invention sidesteps unresolved issues around knowledge engineering by not automating a decision making process. Rather, the present invention utilizes a relational database (104) to dynamically respond to textual and visual findings (110) as an aid to assist a user reaching a reasoned conclusion (120) based upon information available by direct observation and comparison (116,118) with stored image and textual data.

IPC 1-7

G06F 17/60

IPC 8 full level

G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G06Q 50/00 (2006.01); G01N 5/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G06F 16/248 (2018.12 - EP US); G16H 30/40 (2017.12 - EP US); G16H 50/20 (2017.12 - EP); G16H 50/70 (2017.12 - EP); G16H 70/60 (2017.12 - EP US); G01N 5/00 (2013.01 - EP); G06V 40/155 (2022.01 - EP); G16H 40/67 (2017.12 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0211035 A1 20020207; AU 8304101 A 20020213; CA 2417664 A1 20020207; EP 1314121 A1 20030528; EP 1314121 A4 20061129; JP 2004517380 A 20040610

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0123921 W 20010731; AU 8304101 A 20010731; CA 2417664 A 20010731; EP 01961804 A 20010731; JP 2002516682 A 20010731