Medical Image Layout Editor for Multi-Patient Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical imaging systems face challenges in efficiently handling multiple patients and modalities, particularly in image registration and customizable display protocols, which hinder effective comparison and workflow efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A medical imaging system with an interactive user interface that allows simultaneous inspection of multiple patients' or images' data, featuring a layout editor for real-time layout modification and configuration, enabling side-by-side comparison and automatic alignment of images across multiple monitors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional off-line layout editors are used to create and modify layouts, then layout customization is possible, but the editing process requires leaving the viewing program, making multiple iterations necessary, and substantially increasing editing time and learning curve
Solution Approach 1:
The layout editor is merged with the image viewing application, allowing users to create and modify layouts within the same program environment. This integration eliminates the need to switch between separate applications, enabling direct feedback as users make changes and significantly reducing the time required to create and iterate on layout designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a large number of predefined layouts are provided to match user preferences, then layout options increase, but load time substantially increases and layout management difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to create their own customized layouts through an integrated layout editor, eliminating the need for the system to provide a large number of predefined layouts. Users can design layouts that precisely match their preferences and requirements, reducing system complexity while maintaining high adaptability.
3Productivity
If patients are loaded one at a time using current approaches, then system resources are managed efficiently, but workflow efficiency decreases and patient comparison becomes difficult or impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the display area into multiple layout regions that can simultaneously display images from multiple patients. This segmentation approach allows efficient comparison of multiple patients within a single viewing session, improving workflow efficiency without requiring separate loading operations for each patient.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple image views and imaging modalities are combined in display layouts, then comprehensive information is provided, but the number of possible display combinations becomes virtually endless, complicating layout design and management
Solution Approach 1:
The layout editor provides dynamic capabilities that allow users to flexibly create and modify display layouts by dragging and dropping image views, adjusting sizes, and configuring modalities in real-time. This dynamic approach enables comprehensive information display while keeping layout design manageable through intuitive user controls rather than pre-defined complex combinations.
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AI summary
A medical imaging system comprises one or more displays. A viewer device generates an interactive user interface screen on the display, which viewer device enables a user to simultaneously inspect selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images. A layout editor generates a layout editor user interface in the user interface screen, which layout editor device enables the user to create and/or modify a layout of the selected image data on the display.