Grayscale-to-Color Medical Imaging via Combined Tissue Color Tables

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing medical imaging technologies face challenges in efficiently converting grayscale images to color images for improved tissue differentiation, as switching between multiple color tables for tissue display is cumbersome and time-consuming, complicating the diagnostic process.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for generating color medical images using a combined color table, which involves determining tissue types, retrieving and selecting a combined color table from a database, and applying it to segment and display tissues, allowing for efficient and user-friendly image conversion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If multiple color tables are used to display different tissue regions, then tissue differentiation is improved, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetissue differentiationVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple color tables into a single integrated color table that can simultaneously display multiple tissue types with different color schemes. This merging eliminates the need to switch between separate color tables, reducing operational complexity while maintaining the ability to differentiate various tissues through distinct color representations within the unified color table structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If multiple color tables are used to display different tissue regions, then tissue differentiation is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetissue differentiationVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple color tables into one integrated color table, the system eliminates the time-consuming process of switching between separate color tables. The unified color table allows all tissue types to be displayed simultaneously with appropriate color coding, significantly reducing the time required for tissue differentiation and analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If color tables are switched to display different tissues, then tissue visibility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetissue visibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the functionality of multiple separate color table systems into a single integrated color table. This consolidation reduces system complexity by eliminating the need for multiple independent color table modules, while still achieving effective tissue visibility through the unified color table's ability to assign distinct color representations to different tissue types simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3588438B1Method and system for generating colour medical images
Publication Date: 2025.07.30 SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE
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AI summary

The present disclosure discloses a method for generating color medical image. The method for generating color medical image comprising: acquiring medical image data, segmenting at least one tissue in the medical image data, determining a combined color table from a combined color table database based on the at least one tissue; and generating a color medical image based on the combined color table. In some embodiments, the combined color table comprises data of color schemes for the segmented tissues.