Endoscope System Image Type Identification and Recognition Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Endoscope systems often produce inaccurate recognition results due to variations in observation modes, leading to incorrect user perceptions about the performance of recognition processes, which can hinder medical diagnoses.
Innovation Solution
An endoscope system that includes an identification unit to determine the type of image captured, a recognition unit to perform image recognition, and a notification unit to inform users whether the recognition process is functioning for specific image types, ensuring accurate recognition and preventing incorrect user perceptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the recognition process is performed on images captured in different observation modes, then the productivity of diagnosis support is improved, but the measurement precision of recognition results deteriorates due to inaccurate results from incompatible image types
Solution Approach 1:
The identification unit performs preliminary classification of the captured image to determine its type (first type or second type) before the recognition process is executed. This preliminary action ensures that the recognition process is only applied to compatible image types, preventing inaccurate results while maintaining diagnostic productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification unit provides feedback to the user about the compatibility between the captured image and the recognition process. When the image type is incompatible with the recognition process, the system notifies the user, creating a feedback loop that prevents misuse and ensures accurate recognition results are obtained only from suitable images.
2Measurement precision
If the recognition process is restricted to specific image types only, then the measurement precision of recognition results is improved, but the productivity of diagnosis support deteriorates due to limited applicability
Solution Approach 1:
The identification unit performs preliminary classification of the captured image to determine its type before the recognition process is executed. This preliminary action ensures that the recognition process is only applied to compatible image types, preventing inaccurate results while maintaining diagnostic productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification unit provides feedback to the user about the compatibility between the captured image and the recognition process. When the image type is incompatible with the recognition process, the system notifies the user, creating a feedback loop that prevents misuse and ensures accurate recognition results are obtained only from suitable images.
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AI summary
An endoscope system includes an identification unit that identifies the type of an image obtained by image capturing of a photographic subject, a recognition unit that performs a recognition process of recognizing the photographic subject by using the image, and a notification unit that gives a notification of whether the recognition process functions for the image of a specific type identified by the identification unit. The identification unit identifies the type of the image by determining an operation mode, the model of an endoscope used in image capturing of the photographic subject, or whether or not a drug is administered to the photographic subject.