Endoscopic Image Processing With Change-Triggered Observation Indicators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing endoscopic systems face challenges in effectively displaying observation state indications without compromising the visibility of the endoscopic image, as notification indications often obscure the main image or require attention diversion to a secondary monitor.
Innovation Solution
A medical image processing apparatus and method that acquires and analyzes medical images in a time-series manner, determining observation states in small areas and displaying relevant indications on the monitor only when the observation state changes, allowing for timely and user-controlled visibility of completion or incompleteness of the observation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the notification indication is displayed in the main display region, then the visibility of the notification indication is improved, but the visibility of the endoscopic image decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitor display is segmented into a main display region for endoscopic images and a sub display region for notification indications. This spatial segmentation allows both types of information to be displayed simultaneously without mutual interference, resolving the contradiction between visibility of notification indications and visibility of endoscopic images.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification indication is moved from the two-dimensional main display region to a separate sub display region, creating a dimensional separation. This allows the notification information to be displayed without obscuring the endoscopic image, maintaining both visibilities through spatial dimensionality management.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the notification indication is displayed in the sub display region, then the visibility of the endoscopic image is maintained, but the visibility of the notification indication decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into distinct main and sub display regions with appropriate size allocations. The sub display region is designed to be sufficiently large to ensure notification indication visibility while being separate from the main endoscopic image display, resolving the visibility contradiction.
3Loss of information
If the notification indication is displayed on a sub-monitor, then the visibility of both endoscopic image and notification indication is improved, but the user's concentration on the endoscopic image decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification indication display is merged with the main monitor display rather than using a separate sub-monitor. This integration ensures that both notifications and endoscopic images are viewed from the same position, maintaining user concentration on the endoscopic image while still providing clear notification visibility through the sub display region.
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AI summary
Provided are a medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method that effectively display an observation state indication related to the comprehensiveness of observation while suppressing a decrease in the visibility of an endoscopic image. The medical image processing apparatus is a medical image processing apparatus including a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to acquire a plurality of medical images in a time-series manner, make a determination of an observation state in units of a small area of a photographic subject on the basis of the medical images, cause the memory to store a result of the determination, and upon an observation state of the photographic subject being changed, cause a monitor to display an observation state indication of the photographic subject, the observation state indication being based on the result of the determination stored in the memory.