AUTOMATIC DENTAL CHART CREATION METHOD USING DIGITAL IMAGE

• Main Authors: EDWARD R SHELLARD, RONGGUANG LIANG, JEAN-MARC INGLESE, STEVE MCLAUGHLIN, MARK WOODMAN, LARRY A GREENSPAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.08.2012
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for automatically creating an electronic dental chart for a patient by using information acquired from analyzing any of several types of digital images captured from the patient.SOLUTION: In accordance with image data of a plurality of teeth of a patient, a position of each of imaged teeth is represented by a symbol, and a template dental chart regarding the patient is created. For the template dental chart, data are input to form the electronic dental chart by the steps of associating captured image data with a corresponding symbol in the template dental chart relating to an imaged tooth, analyzing the captured image data so as to identify a condition of the imaged tooth, associating at least the identified condition with the symbol corresponding to the imaged tooth, and displaying the electronic dental chart to which data have been input, and the displayed electronic dental chart provides a visual index in an identified state.