Medical Image Processing Apparatus for Correlating Analysis Results
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical image processing systems struggle to effectively display and compare analysis results from medical images with different imaging conditions, such as distance, direction, and illumination, making it difficult to recognize and correlate analysis results between images.
Innovation Solution
A medical image processing apparatus that acquires and analyzes medical images, sets a correspondence relationship between analysis results from images with different conditions, and controls the display to highlight and correlate the results, allowing for the presentation of analysis results from one image on another, using a correspondence relationship setting unit and display control unit.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple medical images with different imaging conditions are displayed side by side to show different analysis results, then the quantity of analysis results presented is improved, but the ease of comparing positions and ranges between images deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple medical images with different imaging conditions into a single composite display. The composite image integrates the distant view image and close view image, allowing analysis results from both images to be overlaid and compared in one unified view, thus maintaining the quantity of analysis results while improving comparability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a composite image as an intermediary representation that bridges multiple original medical images. This composite image serves as a mediator that preserves spatial relationships and allows correlation of analysis results across different imaging conditions without requiring direct comparison of separate images.
2Measurement precision
If analysis results from close view images are displayed on distant view images using existing methods, then the presentation of localized analysis results is improved, but the ability to display distributed lesions across wide ranges deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from displaying analysis results in a single image dimension to a multi-dimensional composite display. By integrating close view analysis results into the distant view composite image, the system adds spatial context and scale, allowing precise localized findings to be viewed in the broader context of distributed lesions across the entire examination area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested display structure where close view analysis results (detailed view) are embedded within the distant view composite image (overall view). This nested arrangement allows the composite image to contain multiple levels of detail, simultaneously displaying both localized precision and distributed patterns of lesions.
3Reliability
If medical images with different imaging conditions are analyzed separately to obtain different analysis results, then the reliability of each analysis result is improved, but the loss of information about correlations between different images increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple medical images with different imaging conditions into a composite image that preserves and displays correlations between them. By overlaying analysis results from different images onto the composite image, the system maintains the reliability of individual analyses while recovering and visualizing the spatial and contextual correlations that would otherwise be lost.
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AI summary
A medical image processing apparatus includes: a medical image acquisition unit that acquires a medical image; a medical image analysis result acquisition unit that acquires an analysis result of the medical image; a display unit that displays the medical image and the analysis result; a correspondence relationship setting unit that sets a correspondence relationship between a first analysis result of a first medical image and a second analysis result of a second medical image having different imaging conditions from the first medical image; and a display control unit that sets a display form in case of displaying the second analysis result on the first medical image using the set correspondence relationship or sets a display form in case of displaying the first analysis result on the second medical image using the set correspondence relationship.