PURPOSE: To reduce communication quantity between management parts and the operation load of an additional information management part in a system which is provided with picture management parts and the additional information management part and which receives a processing request in the additional information management part.
CONSTITUTION: One additional information management part 10 is connected to LAN 1 and the plural picture management parts 11a-11d are connected to LAN 1 and 2. A modality 4 and a work station 5 are connected to LAN 1 and 2. The additional information management part 10 receives a picture registration request, issues a logical address (identification code) and returns it with a transfer destination to the modality 4. At that time, the retrieval table 24 of characteristic information and the logical address is generated. The picture management part 11a (...11d) registers a picture and generates the address table 32 of the logical address and a physical address. When the additional information management part 10 receives an access request, it retrieves the logical address and transmits the logical address and a request content to the picture management part 11a (...11d). The picture management part retrieves the physical address from the table 32 and executes a processing.
FUKUSHIMA YOSHITAKA
MOHAMEDO ARI NEMATOBAKUSHIYU
TOSHIBA MEDICAL ENG