Medical Schema Auto-Generation for Vessel Diagnostics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical reading report preparing apparatuses face a high workload due to the manual generation of schemata for medical images, particularly in ultrasonic inspections of blood vessels, where diagnosticians or technicians must individually create long-axis and short-axis sections, leading to inefficiencies and potential mismatches between these schemata.
Innovation Solution
A medical reading report preparing apparatus that includes a schema storage unit and a schema processing unit, capable of automatically generating a schema for one section based on a pre-existing schema of a blood vessel, using image processing to create perpendicular or angled schemata, thereby reducing user workload and minimizing mismatches.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual schema generation is performed individually for each section, then schema accuracy can be maintained, but user workload increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses one schema as a template or model to generate other schemas. The first schema (long-axis or short-axis) is copied and transformed to create the second schema (short-axis or long-axis), reducing manual work while maintaining consistency and accuracy across all schemas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms schemas between different dimensional perspectives - converting from long-axis view to short-axis view or vice versa. This dimensional transformation allows automatic generation of complementary schemas from a single source schema, significantly reducing workload while maintaining accuracy.
2Loss of information
If manual schema generation is performed for both long-axis and short-axis sections, then complete diagnostic information is obtained, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies the diagnostic information from one schema orientation to generate the complementary orientation. By using the first schema as a source, the system automatically creates the second schema with consistent diagnostic information, reducing time consumption while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary schema generation by creating one schema first, then uses this pre-generated schema as the basis for automatically generating the complementary schema. This preliminary action reduces the need for separate manual generation of both schemas.
3Stability of the object's composition
If individual manual generation of schemata is performed, then schema consistency can be ensured, but mismatches between schemata may occur
Solution Approach 1:
By copying the first schema to generate the second schema, the system ensures that both schemas are derived from the same source data and processing logic. This copying mechanism maintains consistency between schemas and reduces mismatches that would occur with independent manual generation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the generation process for both schemas into a single automated workflow. Instead of independently generating long-axis and short-axis schemas separately, the system combines them into one integrated process where the first schema serves as the basis for generating the second, ensuring consistency and reducing mismatches.
Data Source
AI summary
According to one embodiment, a schema storage unit stores a reference schema that schematically expresses the internal structure of a diagnosis target blood vessel concerning the reference section of the diagnosis target blood vessel. A schema processing unit automatically generates a schema concerning a section crossing the reference section of the diagnosis target blood vessel by image processing based on the reference schema.