Activity Window Layout for Annotation-Rich Image Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Visualizing images at multiple resolutions with overlapping overlays can occlude image content, making it difficult for users to view all information without overwhelming them or causing certain content to be missed, particularly in the context of biological slide images.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for augmented visualization using activity windows, which includes a processor, memory, and an interactive display device, generating a display data structure with a primary window and an activity window that overlays metadata, allowing users to view image data with or without annotations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If overlays and multiple resolutions are used to visualize image data, then information completeness is improved, but user interface clarity deteriorates and content occlusion occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple independent windows (primary window for image data, activity windows for overlays and metadata). This allows information to be distributed across separate visual spaces, maintaining completeness while preventing occlusion and improving clarity.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution transitions from a single-layer overlay approach to a multi-window spatial arrangement. By utilizing the two-dimensional display space more effectively with separate windows positioned at different locations, the system preserves all information without occluding content.
2Loss of information
If multiple overlays are displayed simultaneously, then annotation completeness is improved, but visual clutter increases
Solution Approach 1:
Annotations and metadata are segmented into separate activity windows rather than being layered as overlapping overlays. This segmentation distributes visual elements across different spatial regions, maintaining annotation completeness while eliminating visual clutter.
Solution Approach 2:
The activity window serves as an intermediary container that holds all annotation elements and metadata. This mediator structure organizes disparate information elements in a coordinated manner, preventing visual chaos while preserving complete annotation information.
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AI summary
Systems for augmented visualization using activity windows may include at least a processor, a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor and an interactive display device. The memory may store instructions configuring the processor to initiate a method for image processing and labeling for user display. A method for augmented visualization using activity windows may include receiving image data from an imaging device, executing at least a first algorithm on the image data, wherein the first algorithm is configured to output annotation data associated with the image data, generating a display data structure, and displaying the display data structure at interactive display device.