Claims
- 1. A computer system for screening of medical cases comprising:
(a) a case stack of cases to be reviewed by a user; (b) a user interface component for requesting a consecutive case, for display of the consecutive case, and for entering a diagnosis of the consecutive case; (c) a program component for receiving a request for a consecutive case from the user interface, the program component selecting the consecutive case or a known case for the display and the diagnosis; and (d) a feedback component for outputting a message to the user if the user diagnosis of the known case is incorrect.
- 2. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising a pseudo-random component for generation of a pseudo-random number, the program component being coupled to the pseudo-random component for determining the selection of the consecutive case or the known case based on the output of the pseudo-random component.
- 3. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising a session preparation component for initialising the case stack and for specifying an absolute number or a percentage of known cases to be selected by the program component during the screening of the case stack by the user.
- 4. The computer system of claim 3 wherein the session preparation component enables specifying a category for the known cases.
- 5. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising a user action component for tracing of user input actions and of the feedback component.
- 6. The computer system of claim 5 further comprising a user action report generation component being coupled to the user action component for generating a user action report for the purposes of quality monitoring and assurance.
- 7. The computer system of claim 1 further comprising a mode selection component for selecting a random mode or a fixed mode for the operation of the program component.
- 8. A method for screening of medical cases comprising the steps of:
(a) providing a case stack of cases to be reviewed by a user; (b) requesting the display of a consecutive case; (c) selecting the consecutive case or a known positive case for display; (d) entering a diagnosis of the displayed case; and (e) providing a feedback to the user if the diagnosis of the known case is incorrect.
- 9. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of selecting the case to be displayed based on a pseudo-random number.
- 10. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of selecting the case to be displayed based on a predefined fixed sequence.
- 11. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of preparing a screening session by specifying an absolute number or percentage of known cases to be selected for display during the screening of the case stack.
- 12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of specifying a category of a known case to be displayed during the session preparation.
- 13. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of tracing of the user input operations and of the diagnosis entered by the user.
- 14. The method of claim 13 further comprising the step of generating a report for the purposes of training or quality control and assurance based on a user action database.
- 15. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of selecting a random or a fixed mode for the selection of a case for display.
- 16. A computer program product stored on a computer usable medium, the computer program comprising program components for carrying out the following steps, when the program is run on the computer:
a. providing a case stack of case to be reviewed by a user; b. requesting the display of a consecutive case; c. selecting the consecutive case or a known case for display; d. entering a diagnosis of the displayed case; and e. providing a feedback to the user if the diagnosis of the known case is incorrect.
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is related to the following patent applications, filed at the same day as this application and assigned to the same assignee, MeVis Technology GmbH & Co. KG
[0002] (1) A method and computer system for prefetching of images, Ser. No. ; filed May 29, 2001;
[0003] (2) A method and computer system for screening of medical cases, Ser. No. filed May 29, 2001;
[0004] which are hereby incorporated by reference to be understood in connection with the present invention.