Lung Image Display Linking Anatomy and Quantitative Lesion Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical imaging technologies struggle to effectively visualize the quantitative distribution of lesions in organs or tissues, particularly in diffuse lung diseases where lesions spread along bronchial structures, complicating diagnosis and treatment due to varying pathological conditions between distal and proximal parts.
Innovation Solution
A medical image processing apparatus and method that displays a first index value based on anatomical structure and a second index value related to lesion amount, keeping them in correspondence, allowing graphical representation of how the second index varies with the first, using CT values and voxel or pixel values to quantify lesion distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional medical imaging methods are used to visualize lesions, then basic lesion detection is possible, but quantitative distribution of lesions along anatomical structures cannot be effectively visualized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms 3D volumetric data into a 2D projection view that displays both anatomical structure (bronchial tree) and lesion distribution simultaneously. This dimensional transformation allows quantitative lesion assessment while preserving spatial relationship to anatomical structures, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary visualization method that projects both anatomical landmarks and lesion quantities onto a common 2D display plane. This intermediary representation mediates between the 3D anatomical structure and 3D lesion distribution, enabling simultaneous visualization of both elements with their quantitative relationships preserved.
2Measurement precision
If detailed 3D volumetric data is analyzed, then accurate lesion measurement is possible, but ease of diagnosis and treatment planning is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential diagnostic information from complex 3D volumetric data by projecting lesion quantities and anatomical structures onto a 2D display. This extraction process separates the critical diagnostic elements (lesion distribution and anatomical correlation) from the overwhelming 3D data complexity, maintaining measurement precision while improving diagnostic ease.
Solution Approach 2:
By transforming 3D data into a 2D projection that preserves quantitative information, the patent simplifies the diagnostic interface without sacrificing measurement accuracy. The 2D representation makes lesion distribution and anatomical relationships immediately visible and interpretable.
3Ease of operation
If lesion distribution is visualized without anatomical reference, then visualization simplicity is improved, but understanding of relationship between lesion distribution and anatomical structure is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges anatomical structure visualization and lesion quantity visualization into a single integrated 2D projection. This merging combines bronchial tree anatomy and lesion distribution data in one view, maintaining both simplicity and anatomical correlation simultaneously through unified display.
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AI summary
A medical information display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display controller. The display controller displays information on the basis of volume data including at least a lung. The display controller displays a first index value based on an anatomical structure of the lung and a second index value based on the volume data related to the lung, so as to be kept in correspondence with each other.