Distributed 3D Medical Visualization System for Collaborative Diagnosis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical imaging technologies often generate two-dimensional images, which require significant skill to interpret and lose valuable three-dimensional information, limiting the effectiveness of visual observation in medical diagnosis and treatment.
Innovation Solution
A distributed interactive medical visualization system that generates a three-dimensional model of a patient's anatomy, allowing multiple users to interact and view the same model from different perspectives, with user representations and annotations, and incorporating real-time, stored, and idealized data, facilitating collaborative visualization across networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If two-dimensional medical imaging is used, then the imaging system is simple and easy to operate, but three-dimensional information is lost and interpretation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms two-dimensional medical images into three-dimensional visualizations by integrating multiple 2D images from different angles and processing them through video processing circuits to generate 3D models. This allows clinicians to view anatomical structures in three dimensions while using conventional 2D imaging equipment, thus recovering lost 3D information without requiring complex new imaging hardware.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users view the same anatomical model simultaneously, then collaboration is improved, but system complexity and network requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a universal 3D anatomical model that can be simultaneously accessed and viewed by multiple users from different locations through a network. The centralized 3D model serves multiple functions: it can be viewed by individual users, shared across multiple users simultaneously, and accessed from different geographical locations, thus enabling collaboration without requiring separate systems for each user.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a network as an intermediary that connects multiple users to the centralized 3D anatomical model. The network mediates the transmission of 3D model data and user interaction information between different users and the central processing system, enabling collaborative viewing and interaction without direct user-to-user connections.
3Measurement precision
If three-dimensional models are generated and shared across networks, then diagnostic accuracy and collaboration improve, but data transmission requirements and network bandwidth increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and transmits only the essential 3D model data and key anatomical features over the network, rather than transmitting complete high-resolution 3D datasets. By extracting the most diagnostically relevant information and transmitting selectively, the system maintains diagnostic accuracy while reducing the overall quantity of data that needs to be transmitted across the network.
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AI summary
Embodiments herein relate to distributed interactive medical visualization systems including user interface features and related methods. In an embodiment, a distributed interactive medical visualization system is included having a first video processing circuit, a first central processing circuit in communication with the first video processing circuit, a first communications circuit in communication with the first central processing circuit, and a first user interface generated by the first video processing circuit. The first user interface can include a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a subject's anatomy from a first perspective, the first perspective configured to be controlled by a first user. The first user interface can further include one or more user representations representing one or more other users, the user representations superimposed within the three-dimensional model, wherein each of the one or more user representations are visually distinct from one another. Other embodiments are also included herein.