Dynamic Medical Image Comparison Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for displaying and interacting with medical images are inefficient in detecting differences between images, particularly when comparing large numbers of images from various exams or modalities, leading to tedious and difficult evaluations.
Innovation Solution
The development of interactive user interfaces that dynamically update to facilitate rapid comparison of medical images, allowing users to select and automatically display related images from multiple exams, with features like interleaving and automatic registration to enhance detection of differences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If multiple monitors are placed side by side to display images for comparison, then image comparison capability is improved, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple image display functions into a single monitor by implementing multiple display panels or regions on one screen, allowing side-by-side comparison of images without requiring separate physical monitors for each image series
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a spatial arrangement of multiple physical monitors to a dimensional arrangement of multiple display panels within a single monitor, organizing images in a grid or list format that enables comparison through software layout rather than hardware configuration
2Device complexity
If images are displayed side by side on a single monitor, then device complexity is reduced, but image comparison efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic display arrangements where images can be automatically sorted, filtered, and repositioned based on user selections and comparison criteria, allowing the interface to adapt and optimize the display order of images from multiple exams to enhance comparison efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs image sorting, matching, and display arrangement based on pre-defined criteria or user preferences, reducing the manual effort required by the user to organize images for comparison while maintaining high comparison efficiency
3Device complexity
If manual sorting and arrangement of images is performed, then device complexity is reduced, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary sorting and arrangement of images automatically before the user begins review, organizing images from multiple exams according to predefined criteria such as temporal order, anatomical region, or modality, so that images are already arranged in an optimal comparison sequence when the user opens the system
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions with image sorting and arrangement options refine future automatic sorting behavior, allowing the system to learn and adapt to user preferences over time, reducing the need for manual reorganization and minimizing review time
Data Source
AI summary
Database systems and techniques are disclosed for accessing data stores of digital medical images, processing the digital images, and displaying the digital images to efficiently provide information in an interactive user interface. The disclosure may advantageously provide efficient and rapid dynamic interaction with digital images accessed from one or more databases to enable user detection of differences between related digital images. Interactive user interfaces may be dynamically updated to provide rapid comparison of digital images. Further, digital images from multiple data sources may be automatically sorted by the system according to attributes associated with the images and rules and/or preferences of the user. In an embodiment the user may select a digital image from a first data source, and the system automatically determines and displays one or more comparison images from other image data sources. Images may additionally be automatically registered and/or matched to enable more efficient comparison and evaluation.