MRI Analyzer Navigating Cardiac Slices with Global Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) technologies lack effective tools for clinicians to navigate, understand, and organize cardiac image data, limiting their ability to fully utilize the information captured for assessing cardiac features and functions.
Innovation Solution
The development of an MRI analyzer system that allows users to navigate through MR slices, display contextual and global information, including animated presentations and 3D views, to analyze cardiac features such as strains and deformation parameters, and generate reports based on user inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If cMRI provides abundant information about heart health, then measurement precision and information quality are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of detecting and measuring increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the abundant cMRI data into organized groups and categories, presenting them in a structured manner that clinicians can navigate efficiently. The system divides complex cardiac information into manageable segments while maintaining global context, resolving the contradiction between providing comprehensive data and making it accessible.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer between the cMRI device and the clinician. This intermediary system automatically organizes, analyzes, and presents the raw cardiac data in meaningful contexts, reducing the difficulty of detecting and measuring while preserving the high measurement precision of the original cMRI technology.
2Ease of operation
If clinicians navigate through MR slices to evaluate specific areas, then localized analysis capability is improved, but loss of global perspective increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested information display structure where specific localized MR slice analyses are nested within the broader context of global myocardium information. When clinicians examine specific areas, the system maintains and displays related global perspective data simultaneously, allowing navigation at multiple levels of detail without losing overall context.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds an additional dimension of information presentation by displaying both localized slice details and global myocardium context in an integrated interface. This multi-dimensional display approach allows clinicians to navigate specific areas while maintaining awareness of the broader cardiac structure and function across time and space.
3Loss of information
If the system displays detailed contextual information for selected slices, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary automated organization and analysis of cardiac information before presentation to clinicians. The system pre-processes cMRI data into meaningful contexts, calculates relevant metrics, and structures information in advance, reducing the complexity of real-time information processing while ensuring complete contextual information is available when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
Cardiac features captured via an MRI scan may be tracked and analyzed using a system described herein. The system may receive a plurality of MR slices derived via the MRI scan and present the MR slices in a manner that allows a user to navigate through the MR slices. Responsive to the user selecting one of the MR slices, contextual and global cardiac information associated with the selected slice may be determined and displayed. The contextual information may correspond to the selected slice and the global information may encompass information gathered across the plurality of MR slices. A user may have the ability to navigate between the different display areas and evaluate the health of the heart with both local and global perspectives.