Medical Image Processing Server Centralized Progress Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical image processing systems, it is difficult for primary physicians and other operators to easily monitor the work status of each operator when dividing and performing processing tasks among multiple operators, as conventional systems rely on notifications of processing results rather than centralized management.
Innovation Solution
A medical image processing system with a server that includes an image storage, an image processor, and a progress managing unit, which creates and centrally manages progress information on medical image processing stages, allowing the UI controller to generate display screen data showing the processing status of medical images across multiple clients, enabling easy monitoring of work status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If medical image processing is divided among multiple operators using conventional notification-based systems, then processing can be distributed and performed in parallel, but it becomes difficult to easily monitor the work status of each operator
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that centrally manages and stores progress information about each operator's work status. The server acts as a mediator between multiple operators and the primary physician, allowing status information to be collected, stored, and distributed without requiring direct communication between operators. This resolves the contradiction by enabling parallel processing while maintaining centralized visibility through the server-mediated information hub.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where operators' progress information is continuously updated and stored on the server, then retrieved and displayed to the primary physician and other operators. This feedback loop allows real-time monitoring of work status while maintaining parallel processing, as each operator's status is automatically reported back to the central system and made visible to all stakeholders.
2Device complexity
If conventional notification-based monitoring is used, then system complexity remains low, but work status information is not easily accessible to primary physicians and operators
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the progress information management function into the existing server infrastructure. Rather than creating separate monitoring systems for each operator, the system combines all work status information into a centralized database on the server, which is then accessible to all users. This merging approach maintains relatively simple system architecture while eliminating information loss, as all status data is consolidated in one accessible location.
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AI summary
A server including an image storage, an image processor, a progress managing unit, and a UI controller. The image storage stores medical images of different body regions of a subject. The image processor receives requests related to each medical image from one of multiple clients and executes processing of the medical images. The progress managing unit creates progress information on the processing of each medical image based on the stage of the processing performed by the image processor on each of the multiple medical images, and centrally manages progress information for multiple medical images. In accordance with the processing stage indicated by the progress information, the UI controller generates display screen data which presents the processing status of the medical images of the corresponding body regions on multiple screen regions corresponding to multiple body regions and transmits the display screen data to either one of the multiple clients.