Integrating ISO/IWA1 Practices with an Automatic Patient Image Quantity Examination Approach to Achieve the Patient Safety Goal in a Nuclear Medicine Department

This study proposes an automatic framework to integrate ISO/IWA1 practices to reduce excessive efforts of patient image quantity examination in a nuclear medicine department. The researchers validate this approach with a pilot study and prove its correctness vis-a-vis traditional processes. Furthermore, the efficiency of this approach is shown to be greater than the human validation method due to the high degree of automation in its design. Currently, this approach has been implemented in one nuclear medicine department and found to be beneficial in terms of patient safety and organization management to both medical staff and patients.