Medical Imaging Body Position Re-Registration via Pop-Up Prompt
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical imaging systems, such as MRI, face challenges in efficiently adjusting the subject's body position during imaging, leading to the need for cumbersome re-registration operations when mismatches occur, and do not provide specific means to resolve such issues.
Innovation Solution
A medical imaging apparatus and method that includes a sensor to identify the subject's body position, displaying a pop-up screen on the examination window for proposed re-registration when a mismatch is detected, allowing users to easily correct the position without returning to the registration screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a notification is issued when body position mismatch is detected, then imaging accuracy is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to cumbersome re-registration operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of body position mismatch before imaging proceeds, and prepares the re-registration function in advance by displaying it on the current screen, so that when correction is needed, the user can immediately access it without navigating back to the registration screen
Solution Approach 2:
A pop-up screen is introduced as an intermediary element that bridges the notification function and the re-registration function. The pop-up screen displays both the mismatch notification and the re-registration interface simultaneously on the examination window screen, allowing users to correct body position information without leaving the current workflow context
2Measurement precision
If the system returns to the registration screen for re-registration, then body position correction is achieved, but time efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The re-registration function is prepared in advance by embedding it within the examination window screen context. When body position mismatch is detected, the correction interface is already available in a pop-up, eliminating the time needed to navigate back to the registration screen and forward again after correction
3Ease of operation
If a pop-up screen with re-registration proposal is displayed on the examination window screen, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The re-registration function is segmented into a separate pop-up screen component that overlays the examination window screen. This allows the main examination interface to remain unchanged while adding the correction functionality in a modular, non-intrusive manner that doesn't complicate the overall system architecture
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AI summary
There is provided a medical imaging apparatus that captures a medical image of a subject, including: a sensor that acquires information used to identify a body position of the subject; and a processor, in which the processor is configured to: display a registration screen for accepting registration of the body position of the subject on a display device; accept an imaging start instruction for the subject whose body position has been registered; identify the body position of the subject based on the information obtained from the sensor; and in a case where the registration screen has transitioned to an examination window screen including an image display area for displaying the medical image, and the identified body position and the registered body position are different from each other, display a pop-up screen including a proposal for re-registration of the body position on the examination window screen.