Medical Image Playback System with Sub-Display Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current medical image playback systems for ultrasound scanning images are inconvenient and prone to errors, as they require manual recording of anomalies and lack timely pausing functionality, leading to potential mistakes in scanning processes that can decrease medical quality.

Innovation Solution

A medical image playing system comprising a main display module, a sub display module, and an instruction receiving module that allows for external instructions to be received and transmitted, enabling intuitive and accurate playback of continuous images, with features like direction and distance information display to facilitate error detection during scanning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the physician manually records the position of abnormalities during scanning, then the abnormality information can be tracked, but this consumes additional human resources and time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveabnormality position informationVSAvoidtime for manual recording
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically recording and marking abnormality positions during the scanning process itself. The processor detects abnormalities in real-time and marks their positions on the continuous image, eliminating the need for subsequent manual recording and position tracking by the physician.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If the continuous image is played back without segmentation, then the playback is simple, but the physician cannot efficiently locate and review specific abnormalities when attention is distracted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage playback convenienceVSAvoidtime to locate abnormality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies segmentation by dividing the continuous image into multiple image sections based on detected abnormalities. Each image section contains specific abnormality information and is displayed with navigation indicators, allowing the physician to efficiently locate and review specific abnormalities without playing through the entire continuous image.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If the scanning process is not monitored for errors, then the operation is simpler, but mistakes may go undetected and decrease medical quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescanning monitoring systemVSAvoidscanning accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by providing real-time monitoring and alerting during the scanning process. The processor analyzes the continuous image to detect abnormalities and provides feedback indicators, allowing the operator to immediately correct scanning errors or missed abnormalities, thereby improving scanning reliability and medical quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10405831B2Medical image playing system and method
Publication Date: 2019.09.10 TAIHAO MEDICAL
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AI summary

The invention provides a medical image playing system for playing a continuous image corresponding to a particular region of the human body. The system includes: a main display module for displaying the continuous image, a sub display system for displaying at least one information of image sections of the continuous image, and an instruction receiving module for receiving at least an external instruction. The instruction receiving module is arranged in the sub display module and combined with the at least one information, such that when the instruction receiving module receives the at least one external instruction, the at least one information corresponding to the external instruction is transmitted to the main display module to display the image corresponding to the at least one information.