Four-Dimensional Medical Image Visualization With Cache-Based Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical image processing systems are limited by high processing costs, low efficiency, and inflexibility, requiring high-performance workstations, are difficult to operate, necessitate specialized personnel, and lack compatibility and flexibility for modern medical needs.
Innovation Solution
A four-dimensional visualization method and device utilizing a modular architecture with a perception module, control module, communication module, and processing module, employing a cache server for data exchange, enabling seamless interaction across clients and servers, and supporting master-slave synchronization for efficient data access and processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If high-performance workstations are used for medical image processing, then image processing quality is improved, but processing cost increases and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the medical image processing functionality into separate modules: image acquisition module, preprocessing module, analysis module, and visualization module. Each module can be independently configured and deployed, allowing high-quality processing without requiring a single complex high-performance workstation, thus reducing overall system complexity while maintaining processing quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed to support multiple image processing algorithms, formats, and devices through a unified architecture. The preprocessing module can handle various image formats and the analysis module supports multiple processing algorithms, making the system universally applicable without requiring separate specialized systems for each function, thereby reducing complexity while maintaining high processing quality.
2Reliability
If specialized personnel are assigned to operate the system, then operation reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates automated preprocessing algorithms and intelligent analysis functions that can operate without constant human intervention. The system automatically performs image preprocessing, selects appropriate processing algorithms, and generates analysis results, reducing the need for specialized operational knowledge while maintaining reliable operation through built-in quality control mechanisms.
3Reliability
If professional engineers are appointed for maintenance and update, then system reliability is improved, but ease of repair deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The modular architecture allows each functional module to be independently maintained and updated. If a specific module requires maintenance, only that module needs to be accessed and repaired, rather than the entire system, significantly easing the maintenance process while maintaining system reliability through isolated fault management.
4Device complexity
If the system supports single function with limited image format, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system is designed with universal support for multiple medical image formats (DICOM, NIFTI, MINC, etc.) and multiple processing algorithms through a standardized interface architecture. The preprocessing module can convert various formats to a standard internal format, and the analysis module can apply different algorithms, providing high adaptability without significantly increasing device complexity through standardized design.
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AI summary
The present application provides a method and device for four-dimensional visualization of medical images, the medical image data is uploaded to the control module by the user via the client, the medical image data is analyzed and the analyzing result is fed back to the client by the control module, the medical image data is preprocessed by the storage server to form the cross-sectional tomographic images, dynamic three-dimensional image display is provided on the client by the processing module according to the cross-sectional tomographic images. The device comprises perception module, control module, communication module and processing module, the control module communicates with the client through the interconnection unit, the storage server communicates with the control module and the cache server respectively, the cache server communicates with the control module, the processing module communicates with the storage server, the cache server and the control module respectively. The modules of the present application can be synchronized quickly, the data access performance is improved, the operation is convenient, the expansibility is strong, the consumptions of computing resources of the network transmission data and the client are reduced, and the cost is lower.