Medical Image Comment Display Positioning to Avoid Anatomical Overlap
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical image display systems, it is challenging for users to easily identify the correspondence between medical images and interpretation reports, as existing methods do not consider anatomical structures or report contents when overlaying comment information, leading to overlap and hindrance in confirming anatomical structures or report contents.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and system that acquires report information including a region of interest and associated comment information, determines a display position for comment information to avoid overlap with related regions, and displays the medical image with comment information at a determined position, ensuring clear visibility of both the image and report contents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If comment information is displayed near the region of interest on the medical image, then the user can easily grasp the correspondence between the medical image and interpretation report, but the comment information may overlap with anatomically important positions or related regions, making it difficult to confirm the anatomical structure or report contents
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third dimension (depth/z-axis) by displaying comment information in a pop-up window or overlay that can be positioned above or below the medical image plane, rather than strictly on the 2D image plane. This allows comment information to be associated with specific regions without physically overlapping and obscuring the anatomical structures on the image.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an intermediary display mechanism (pop-up window, overlay layer, or separate display region) that mediates between the comment information and the medical image. This intermediary allows the comment to be displayed in proximity to the region of interest while preventing direct overlap with the anatomical structures, thus preserving both the association and the visibility of the image.
2Loss of information
If the user refers to the interpretation report while associating it with the medical image, then the user can understand the diagnosis, but it requires additional time to manually associate the two pieces of information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the interpretation report and medical image into a single integrated display interface. Comment information from the interpretation report is automatically overlaid or associated with the corresponding region of interest on the medical image, allowing the user to view both pieces of information simultaneously in one location rather than switching between separate displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically matching and associating comment information with the corresponding regions on the medical image before the user views them. The system pre-processes the interpretation report to identify region-of-interest descriptions and automatically positions the corresponding comments near the relevant anatomical regions, eliminating the need for manual association by the user.
3Device complexity
If character strings from interpretation reports are displayed on medical images without considering anatomical structures, then the display is simple, but the character strings may be overlaid at anatomically important positions, preventing clear confirmation of the anatomical structure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the display behavior adaptive to different regions of the medical image. The system analyzes the anatomical importance of different regions and adjusts the placement strategy accordingly - comment information is positioned in areas of lower anatomical importance or displayed using techniques that preserve the visibility of critical anatomical structures, thus maintaining both simplicity and precision.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a report acquisition unit adapted to acquire report information including a region of interest in a medical image and comment information associated with the region of interest, a related region acquisition unit adapted to acquire a region related to the region of interest in the medical image, a determination unit adapted to determine a display position of a display region of the comment information so as not to make the display region of the comment information overlap the related region, and a display control unit adapted to display the medical image including the comment information so that the comment information is displayed at the determined display position of the display region on a display unit.