Bidirectional Medical Server System for Image and Operation Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical conferencing systems over networks face challenges in accurately sharing specific sites within medical images and transmitting operation information bidirectionally, leading to potential misdiagnoses and image quality deterioration due to compression, especially in remote locations with varying network bandwidth.
Innovation Solution
A medical support system with bidirectionally connected servers and terminals that enables the bidirectional sharing of medical images and operation information, using conference processing units, image sharing processing units, and control units to ensure accurate image sharing and operation information transmission over networks, even in diverse network conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If medical images are transmitted over network with compression to accommodate narrow bandwidth in remote locations, then network adaptability is improved, but image quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the image transmission process by maintaining original high-quality images at the server while transmitting only necessary operation information and image data to clients. This allows different quality levels for different purposes without compromising the original image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that stores original high-quality medical images and transmits only operation information and necessary image data to clients. This mediator role allows clients to work with compressed data while the server preserves and can provide original quality images when needed.
2Device complexity
If only one-way operation information transmission is used in conference systems, then device complexity is reduced, but communication reliability deteriorates due to lack of bidirectional sharing
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements bidirectional transmission where operation information from one terminal is transmitted to another terminal's control unit, which then controls based on received operation information. This feedback mechanism ensures both parties share the same operational state, improving communication reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges image sharing processing and operation information transmission into a unified conference system. Both functions work together to ensure that medical images and their operational context are shared bidirectionally, improving overall communication reliability without significantly increasing complexity.
3Ease of operation
If specific sites in medical images are not properly indicated during conference, then ease of operation is improved, but diagnostic accuracy deteriorates leading to wrong diagnosis
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses visual indicators such as colored markers or annotations to highlight specific sites in medical images during conferences. These visual changes make it easy to indicate and discuss specific locations without complex operations, while maintaining high accuracy in site identification.
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AI summary
A medical support system enables one server bidirectionally connected to one terminal to bidirectionally communicate with another server bidirectionally connected to another terminal. Each of the one server and the other server comprises: a conference processing unit configured to perform a conference between the one terminal and the other terminal; an image sharing processing unit configured to bidirectionally share an image between the one server and the other server; and a control unit configured to control the entire server over a network, wherein the control unit of the one server transmits only operation information sent from the one terminal to the control unit of the other server, and the control unit of the other server controls based on the received operation information.