Abstract: Teeth are screened for periodontal disease using digitized images manipulated and annotated on a processor. A digitized radiographic image of a tooth shows locations of a bone boundary and a cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) of the tooth. The digitized radiographic image is marked on the processor with a location on the bone boundary and with a pair of CEJ points at opposite ends of the CEJ visible in the radiograph. A ratio between (a) a distance between the bone boundary location and the adjacent CEJ point as numerator and (b) a distance between the CEJ points as denominator is calculated on the processor and compared with a threshold ratio-value for a corresponding tooth from a database accessible by the processor. A calculated ratio-value which is greater than the database threshold ratio-value is indicative of periodontal disease in the tooth. The probability of the correct diagnostic decision is determined by the relative magnitude of the calculated ratio-value and the threshold ratio-value.

Abstract: Teeth are screened for periodontal disease using digitized images manipulated and annotated on a processor. A digitized radiographic image of a tooth shows locations of a bone boundary and a cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) of the tooth. The digitized radiographic image is marked on the processor with a location on the bone boundary and with a pair of CEJ points at opposite ends of the CEJ visible in the radiograph. A ratio between (a) a distance between the bone boundary location and the adjacent CEJ point as numerator and (b) a distance between the CEJ points as denominator is calculated on the processor and compared with a threshold ratio-value for a corresponding tooth from a database accessible by the processor. A calculated ratio-value which is greater than the database threshold ratio-value is indicative of periodontal disease in the tooth. The probability of the correct diagnostic decision is determined by the relative magnitude of the calculated ratio-value and the threshold ratio-value.

Abstract: A system enables a diagnosing physician to assess an effect of medical video clip data compression. A medical image data processing and image viewing system includes an acquisition processor for acquiring image data representing a sequence of reduced resolution medical images and corresponding full resolution medical images. An image navigation processor detects, a pause in user navigation through the sequence of reduced resolution medical images and continued presentation of a particular reduced resolution medical image of the sequence on a display. An acquisition control processor automatically initiates acquisition by the acquisition processor of data representing a full resolution medical image corresponding to the particular reduced resolution medical image for presentation on the display in response to a detected pause.

Abstract: A method of automatically generating a medical report summary includes the following steps. A medical report which includes one or more parameters is generated. A weight is calculated for the parameters in the medical report. The parameters are ordered based upon the calculated weight. A medical report summary is created that lists the parameters that have been ordered based upon the calculated weight.