Medical Image Display System for Collaborative Review

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current medical image display systems face challenges in collaborating across different devices with varying resolutions and formats, particularly in situations where radiologists and other clinicians need to review images together, as existing systems lack seamless integration and standardized viewing protocols, leading to inconsistent and suboptimal image presentation.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes a layout unit and allocation unit to configure multiple display devices, including mobile devices, to display medical images according to a hanging protocol, ensuring appropriate image allocation and positioning based on relative device positions, thereby facilitating collaborative image review across devices with varying capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple display devices with varying resolutions and formats are used for collaborative image review, then accessibility and collaboration convenience are improved, but image display consistency and diagnostic accuracy deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration convenienceVSAvoidimage display consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts display parameters including image resolution, format, size, and positioning based on the specific characteristics of each display device. This allows the same medical image to be optimally displayed across devices with varying resolutions and formats while maintaining diagnostic quality and consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The display system is divided into multiple independent view regions, each capable of displaying different medical images or image parameters simultaneously. Each view can be independently configured for different display devices, allowing collaborative review while maintaining individual device optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If high-resolution dedicated display devices are used, then image display quality and diagnostic accuracy are improved, but device portability and accessibility deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage display qualityVSAvoiddevice portability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The medical image display system is designed to universally support multiple types of display devices including dedicated high-resolution displays, mobile devices, and shared displays. The system automatically adapts to each device type while maintaining core functionality, enabling both high-quality stationary review and portable accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes display parameters such as image resolution, scaling, and formatting based on the capabilities of the specific display device being used. This allows high-quality image display on dedicated devices while also enabling effective viewing on portable devices with different display characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If multiple views are displayed simultaneously on a single device, then comprehensive image analysis is improved, but device resource consumption and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensive image analysisVSAvoidsystem resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display interface is segmented into multiple independent view regions that can simultaneously display different medical images, parameter sets, or analysis results. Each view can be independently configured and manipulated, allowing comprehensive image analysis across multiple views without requiring excessive system resources on a single device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10169534B2Medical image display system and method
Publication Date: 2019.01.01 TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYST CORP
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AI summary

A display system for displaying medical images across a plurality of separate display devices, the system comprising a layout unit for providing layout data concerning the display of medical images, an allocation unit for allocating a plurality of medical images amongst a plurality of separate display devices according to the layout data, wherein at least one of the plurality of display devices comprises a mobile display device.