Medical Document Creation from Multiple Image Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques fail to appropriately support the creation of medical documents when a user designates multiple regions of interest in medical images, leading to inefficiencies in document generation.
Innovation Solution
A document creation support apparatus and method that acquires and processes medical images to identify multiple regions of interest, derives evaluation indices for each region, and generates text based on these indices to support the creation of medical documents, including features like sentence, itemized, or table formats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a user designates multiple regions of interest in a medical image, then the quantity of information to be documented increases, but the ability to determine which region to prioritize for document creation becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by introducing an evaluation index that quantifies multiple attributes of regions of interest (such as abnormality degree, size, location, and clinical significance). By transforming qualitative assessment into quantitative parameters, the system can automatically rank and prioritize multiple regions of interest, resolving the difficulty of determining which region to document first when multiple regions are designated.
2Reliability
If the system processes multiple regions of interest without prioritization, then all regions can be considered, but the efficiency of document creation decreases due to lack of organization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing evaluation indices for each region of interest before document creation. The system预先 assesses and ranks all designated regions based on their clinical importance and characteristics, creating a prioritized list that guides the document generation process. This preliminary organization ensures both completeness (all regions are considered) and efficiency (regions are processed in priority order).
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AI summary
A document creation support apparatus acquires information representing a plurality of regions of interest included in a medical image, acquires position information representing a position designated by a user in the medical image displayed on a display device, selects, based on the position information, two or more regions of interest from among the plurality of regions of interest, and derives an evaluation index for each of the two or more selected regions of interest as a target to be in a medical document.