Medical Image Display System Using Segmented Viewer Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently interpreting medical images due to the need to operate unfamiliar integrated viewers instead of experienced local applications, limiting the use of application-specific operations and functions for tasks like 3D viewing and annotation.
Innovation Solution
A medical image display system that allows a first viewer to display both local and remotely stored medical images, enabling the user to operate related images through a familiar local application, while also utilizing web-based viewers for comprehensive comparison.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If medical images from different facilities are displayed on a single integrated viewer, then comparative interpretation becomes possible, but users must operate unfamiliar applications reducing interpretation efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the display function by allowing different viewer types (local application and web application) to coexist. The determination unit selectively determines whether to display images from the local application or web application based on the image source, enabling comparative interpretation while maintaining familiarity for each image type.
Solution Approach 2:
The determination unit acts as an intermediary that automatically selects the appropriate viewer type based on the image source. This mediator transparently handles the switching between local and web applications, allowing users to perform comparative interpretation without manually managing different applications.
2Device complexity
If a single integrated viewer is used for all medical images, then device complexity is reduced, but application-specific functions become inaccessible
Solution Approach 1:
The display system achieves multi-functionality by supporting both local applications and web applications through a single display interface. The determination unit dynamically selects which application to use based on the image source, allowing the system to provide both familiar local application functions and web-based comparative interpretation capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically switches between different viewer types based on the image source. The determination unit continuously evaluates whether to display images from the local application or web application, allowing the system to adapt its behavior to the specific interpretation task at hand.
3Productivity
If users operate local applications for familiar images, then interpretation efficiency is maintained, but comparative interpretation across facilities becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a unified display interface that copies the familiar local application experience for local images while integrating web application functionality for external images. This allows users to interpret local images with full familiar functionality while automatically accessing web-based images for comparative interpretation in a similarly familiar interface.
Data Source
AI summary
A medical image display apparatus includes: a display that displays, through a first viewer, a first medical image stored in a first server; and a hardware processor that obtains a related medical image that is a second medical image related to the first medical image and is displayable through a second viewer, from a second server that stores the second medical image, wherein the display displays, through the first viewer, the related medical image obtained by the hardware processor.