Medical Image Thumbnail Navigation for Multi-Index Quality Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical image diagnosis apparatuses face challenges in adjusting multiple image quality indexes due to the large number of combinations, limiting user flexibility and making it difficult to achieve optimal image quality.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus employs a graphical user interface with thumbnail images representing different image quality settings, allowing users to adjust image quality indexes through intuitive button operations, and sets an adjustable range using an anchor flow line based on user-defined trajectories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple image quality indexes are adjusted to achieve optimal image quality, then image quality can be optimized according to user preference, but the number of combinations becomes extremely large (e.g., 5^60 combinations for 60 indexes with 5 levels each), making adjustment difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the 60 image quality indexes into multiple groups (first group, second group, third group, etc.), allowing users to adjust indexes in manageable portions rather than facing all 60 indexes simultaneously. This segmentation reduces the cognitive load and makes the adjustment process more tractable while still enabling comprehensive image quality optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a grouping dimension to organize image quality indexes, transforming the flat space of 60 individual indexes into a hierarchical structure with multiple groups. This dimensional reorganization allows users to navigate and adjust indexes systematically, reducing the perceived complexity from 5^60 combinations to a series of smaller adjustment tasks.
2Ease of operation
If image quality indexes are indexed as combinations based on user preference, then adjustment is simplified through preset options, but the degree of freedom for adjusting image quality becomes quite limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic adjustment mechanism where users can first select from preset group combinations to quickly achieve a baseline image quality, then freely adjust individual indexes within each group to fine-tune the results. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt between providing structured guidance and enabling unlimited customization based on user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by providing preset group combinations of image quality indexes that represent common user preferences. These pre-configured groups serve as starting points that simplify initial adjustment, while users retain the ability to modify any individual index afterward, thus combining the benefits of preset convenience with custom flexibility.
3Ease of operation
If thumbnail images are displayed as selection buttons to make adjustment visually easier to understand, then user interface comprehension is improved, but the fundamental adjusting difficulty from numerous image quality index values remains unresolved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the numerous image quality index values into multiple groups, with each group displayed as a set of thumbnail images. This segmentation reduces the visual complexity by organizing the overwhelming number of individual index adjustments into manageable groupings, where each thumbnail represents a coherent set of related indexes rather than isolated values.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses thumbnail images as visual copies or representations of the actual image quality adjustments. Instead of displaying numerical values for 60 different indexes, the system creates simplified visual copies (thumbnails) that convey the effect of index combinations, making the adjustment interface comprehensible while maintaining access to the full range of adjustment options.
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AI summary
The medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment comprises processing circuitry configured to set a value of an image quality index selected regarding multiple types of the image quality index to display medical image as an anchor, and generate a first thumbnail image based on the anchor; display the first thumbnail image; generate second thumbnail images by increasing or decreasing the image quality index by a preset value from the anchor; display the plurality of second thumbnail images; generate a new first thumbnail image, display the new first thumbnail image, generate a new second thumbnail image, and display the new second thumbnail image; and generate an anchor flow line based on at least a starting point in which the anchor starts a movement and an ending point in which the anchor ends the movement, and set an adjustable range of the value of the image quality index.