Interactive Medical Report Display for Image-Report Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical reports are often lengthy and in printed format, making it difficult for medical professionals to quickly access relevant information, especially in urgent situations, and to visualize correlations between medical findings and body parts.
Innovation Solution
An interactive display method that allows users to select regions in a medical image, with associated medical findings from the report displayed textually, and vice versa, enabling users to focus on relevant data and visualize relationships between image regions and medical findings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If medical reports are provided in printed format with complete text, then all medical findings are available for review, but the document becomes multi-page and time-consuming to read, especially under time pressure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the relevant medical findings from the complete medical report and displays them selectively in the graphical user interface. When a user selects a body part in the medical image, only the medical findings related to that specific body part are extracted and displayed in the text field, rather than showing the entire multi-page report. This extraction principle resolves the contradiction by providing complete information when needed while minimizing information display during urgent decision-making.
2Loss of information
If all medical findings are displayed simultaneously, then the user has access to complete information, but it becomes tedious to extract relevant information related to specific body parts
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by detecting user selections on the medical image and dynamically updating the displayed medical findings accordingly. When a user selects a specific body part or region in the medical image, the system provides feedback by displaying only the medical findings related to that selection in the text field. This feedback mechanism resolves the contradiction by making relevant information extraction effortless while maintaining access to all medical findings through the interactive interface.
3Loss of information
If medical reports are displayed in traditional printed format, then all findings are documented, but correlations between medical findings and body parts cannot be visualized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a spatial dimension to the presentation of medical findings by displaying them in relation to the visual medical image rather than in a linear text format. Medical findings are presented in the graphical user interface with spatial correspondence to their location in the medical image, allowing users to visually correlate findings with specific body parts. This dimensional transformation resolves the contradiction by maintaining complete documentation while enabling intuitive visualization of correlations between medical findings and anatomical locations.
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AI summary
A method of generating a medical report of a patient is disclosed. The method comprises (a) selecting, from a plurality of program modules, at least one program module having an input requirement matching medical image-related data of a patient, (b) using the at least one program module to obtain a medical finding, (c) selecting, from the plurality of program modules, at least one program module having an input requirement matching the obtained medical finding, (d) using the at least one program module to obtain a medical finding based on the previously obtained medical finding, and (e) generating the medical report of the patient, the medical report comprising at least one of the obtained medical findings.