Medical Diagnosis Support System Matching Threshold
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical diagnosis support systems rely on operation and time-based criteria to determine interpretation completion, which may not ensure that doctors follow correct procedures or confirm diagnoses accurately, leading to potential errors or oversights.
Innovation Solution
A medical diagnosis support apparatus that calculates a degree of matching between diagnosis information and interpretation information, permitting the presentation of diagnosis results only when the matching exceeds a predetermined threshold, ensuring that the doctor has completed thorough interpretation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If operation and time-based criteria are used to determine interpretation completion, then the system can automatically judge whether interpretation is complete, but the reliability of ensuring correct interpretation procedures is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system compares the doctor's interpretation information with CAD diagnosis information and provides feedback by calculating a degree of matching. When the matching degree is high, the system judges interpretation as complete, creating a closed-loop feedback mechanism that improves reliability while maintaining automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces operation-based and time-based mechanical judgment criteria with a content-based comparison mechanism. Instead of relying on external operational cues, the system substitutes a direct content comparison between doctor's interpretation and CAD results to determine completion, thereby improving reliability.
2Productivity
If the doctor interprets images without confirming CAD information, then the interpretation process is faster, but the accuracy of diagnosis may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary comparison between the doctor's interpretation and CAD information during the interpretation process. By calculating the degree of matching in advance and providing feedback, the system ensures diagnosis accuracy is maintained while allowing the doctor to proceed efficiently when matching is high.
3Speed
If the system presents CAD results immediately, then the doctor can access diagnosis support information quickly, but the doctor may make incorrect decisions based on erroneous CAD information
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback by comparing interpretation information with CAD information and calculating a degree of matching. CAD results are presented quickly when the matching degree is high, providing both speed and reliability through this feedback mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary comparison and validation between doctor's interpretation and CAD information before presenting results. This preliminary action ensures that only reliably matched information is presented to the doctor, maintaining decision reliability while enabling quick access.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention provides a mechanism for making a doctor surely follow correct procedures in which the doctor confirms diagnosis information obtained by computer processing after he or she has completed interpretation. A medical diagnosis support apparatus executes diagnosis processing for acquiring medical diagnosis information from an image to be interpreted by computer processing. The medical diagnosis support apparatus accepts interpretation information as an interpretation result of the image to be interpreted, which information is input by, for example, a doctor. The medical diagnosis support apparatus calculates a degree of matching between the diagnosis information and interpretation information, and permits to present the diagnosis information acquired by the diagnosis processing when the calculated degree of matching exceeds a predetermined threshold.