Medical Report Structuring to Preserve Relation Information
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for transcribing medical imaging diagnosis reports into electronic health records fail to preserve the relationships between different sections of the report, leading to information loss during the transcription process.
Innovation Solution
A medical information processing apparatus that processes structured document information by selecting and arranging partial information and relation information, allowing for the generation of copy data that maintains the original relationships between entries, thereby ensuring complete information transfer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If simple copying and pasting of selected contents is performed, then the operation is easy and fast, but the relation between multiple regions is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The interpretation report is segmented into multiple regions with distinct characteristics (e.g., imaging diagnosis region, comparison region, impression region). Each region is copied as a unit while preserving its relational context, allowing easy selection and copying without losing inter-region relationships. The segmentation enables users to copy specific regions while maintaining the structural relationships between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The copy information structure embeds multiple levels of information nesting: region-level information contains paragraph-level information, which contains sentence-level information. This nested structure preserves the hierarchical relationships between different regions (e.g., how the imaging diagnosis relates to the comparison and impression), allowing complete information transfer while maintaining ease of operation at each level.
2Loss of information
If all information is copied to preserve relationships, then no information is lost, but the copying process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the document into distinct regions (imaging diagnosis, comparison, impression) that can be independently selected and copied, the system enables users to copy only necessary information while preserving relationships. This segmentation reduces copying time compared to copying the entire document, while still maintaining complete information transfer for the selected regions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows partial copying of specific regions rather than requiring complete copying of the entire interpretation report. Users can select and copy only the relevant regions needed for their purpose, which reduces the time required while still preserving all necessary relationships within the selected portions. The partial action approach avoids unnecessary copying time while maintaining information completeness for the copied content.
3Device complexity
If regions are copied as independent contents, then the copying process is simple, but the contextual relationships between regions are omitted
Solution Approach 1:
The copy information is constructed with a nested structure where region information contains paragraph information, which contains sentence information. This nesting preserves contextual relationships (e.g., the relationship between imaging diagnosis findings and the corresponding impression) while maintaining the simplicity of copying individual regions. The nested structure ensures that contextual relations are not lost even when copying specific portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces copy information as an intermediary structure between the original interpretation report and the target electronic health record. This intermediary preserves the contextual relationships between regions by maintaining the hierarchical structure (region-paragraph-sentence) during the copying process, thereby preventing information loss while keeping the copying process simple.
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AI summary
A medical information processing apparatus processes structured document information including a plurality of pieces of partial information obtained by classifying information concerning imaging diagnosis for each predetermined type and relation information indicating a relation between the plurality of pieces of partial information. The medical information processing apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select partial information and relation information as copy targets from the structured document information which is being displayed; a decision unit configured to decide an arrangement of the partial information in copy information based on the selected partial information and the selected relation information; and a generating unit configured to generate data by converting the selected partial information and the selected relation information based on the decided arrangement.