Medical Image Thumbnail Grouping for Faster View Review
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical image management systems group medical images by position and side, making it difficult for clinicians to quickly find specific views and potentially miss useful images due to technical repeats, leading to inefficient review processes.
Innovation Solution
Implement user-selectable grouping and ungrouping of thumbnail images in a graphical user interface, allowing clinicians to switch between set-grouped and ungrouped thumbnail displays for easier navigation and viewing of medical images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If medical images are grouped into sets by position and side, then the organization and structure of the image display is improved, but it becomes difficult for clinicians to quickly find specific views and may cause useful images to be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the thumbnail display into multiple selectable grouping modes (e.g., grouped by imaging position and side, or ungrouped individually). This segmentation allows clinicians to choose the appropriate level of organization based on their specific needs, resolving the contradiction between structured organization and quick access to specific views.
2Loss of information
If additional images of a set are displayed as additional pages, then all images can be viewed, but the clinician must page through multiple images which increases review time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic display modes that allow clinicians to switch between grouped and ungrouped thumbnail views. This dynamic adaptability enables efficient navigation through large sets of images by allowing direct access to specific views without mandatory sequential paging, thus reducing review time while maintaining access to all images.
3Stability of the object's composition
If images are grouped by the same position and side, then the display is more organized, but it becomes difficult to identify technical repeats and prompt clinicians to view useful images
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different display qualities to different thumbnails based on their content characteristics. By allowing ungrouped or differently grouped displays, clinicians can identify technical repeats and useful images through visual comparison of individual thumbnails, maintaining local detectability while preserving overall organizational structure.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are described that implement displaying grouped medical images for review. Current medical image management systems generally use thumbnail image grouping of images that have the same position and side. These groups of thumbnail images can be large, making it difficult for a clinician (e.g., a radiologist) to quickly find a particular view they are interested in reviewing. The disclosed systems and methods provide for user-selectable grouping and ungrouping of thumbnail images in a graphical user interface, which makes it easier for a clinician to quickly find a particular view that they are interested in and enables a more-efficient review of an imaging study.