Multi-Modality Medical Data Navigation and Enhancement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multi-modality medical processing systems face challenges in efficiently handling and processing data from various diagnostic and sensing modalities, requiring improved methods for data identification, separation, indexing, and presentation to enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for navigating medical data in a multi-modality processing system, allowing users to select and enhance subsets of data through user input, applying enhancements such as single-axis zoom, and providing on-demand data measurement and measurement zoom functions, facilitating clearer and more accurate views of medical data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple imaging modalities are integrated in a multi-modality medical system, then diagnostic capability and information completeness are improved, but data handling complexity and processing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments medical data by modality type (e.g., angiography, IVUS, OCT, FFR) and organizes it into separate data sets within the unified interface. This allows the system to handle complex multi-modality data by dividing it into manageable, modality-specific segments while maintaining integrated access and correlation capabilities.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive medical data from multiple modalities is collected, then diagnostic accuracy is improved, but data presentation clarity and operator comprehension become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple modality data sets into a single unified user interface that displays angiography, IVUS, OCT, FFR, and other data together with synchronized navigation. This integration allows operators to comprehend comprehensive diagnostic information in a coordinated manner rather than switching between separate systems, improving ease of operation while maintaining diagnostic accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal and spatial dimension to data presentation by synchronizing navigation across all modalities and providing time-correlated display of periodic values. This dimensional approach helps operators comprehend complex multi-modality data by showing how different data types relate to each other in space and time.
3Loss of information
If detailed medical data is displayed across multiple modalities, then diagnostic information completeness is improved, but interface complexity and navigation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal user interface that handles multiple modalities (angiography, IVUS, OCT, FFR, pressure, flow) through common navigation controls and interaction methods. This multi-functional interface maintains information completeness across all modalities while simplifying navigation by providing consistent controls rather than modality-specific interfaces.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for multi-modality data processing are provided. Some embodiments are particularly directed to navigating sets of multi-modality medical data in a multi-modality processing system. In one embodiment, a method for navigating medical data in a medical processing system includes receiving a reference set of medical data by the medical processing system, where the medical data corresponds to a modality selected from the group consisting of: FFR, iFR, pressure, flow, IVUS, and OCT. The medical processing system also receives a navigation command. An enhancement and a subset of the reference set of medical data to enhance are identified based on the navigation command. The medical processing system performs the selected enhancement on the subset of data and the enhanced subset is displayed. The enhancement may include performing a single-axis zoom on the subset.