Multi-modality Medical Image Viewing Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical imaging systems face challenges in efficiently handling multiple patients and modalities, particularly in registering images from multiple sessions and providing customizable display protocols, which complicates patient comparison and workflow.
Innovation Solution
A medical imaging system with an interactive user interface allows simultaneous inspection of selected image data from multiple patients or images, featuring a viewer device that generates a tiled format for side-by-side comparison and supports customizable display protocols, along with a registration component for aligning images using a global reference coordinate system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If images from multiple patients and modalities are viewed using current systems, then patient comparison becomes difficult and workflow becomes cumbersome, but the system must handle multiple patients and modalities
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the viewing environment into multiple display regions or panes, with each region dedicated to displaying images from different patients or modalities. This segmentation allows simultaneous visualization of multiple images without overwhelming the user interface, enabling easy comparison while maintaining system capability to handle complex multi-patient, multi-modality scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The viewing system is designed to universally handle multiple patients and modalities through a single integrated interface that automatically adapts to different image types and patient data. The system provides a unified workflow that works consistently across PET, CT, MRI, and other modalities, eliminating the need for separate viewing procedures for each modality while maintaining ease of patient comparison.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customizable display protocols are provided to meet different needs, then display flexibility improves, but implementing a tightly integrated viewing environment becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The display protocol system implements dynamic customization where viewing parameters, layout configurations, and image selection criteria can be adjusted in real-time based on specific diagnostic needs. The system allows users to dynamically modify display settings for different patients and modalities while maintaining a cohesive integrated viewing environment, rather than requiring static pre-configured protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the diverse imaging modalities and the display interface that standardizes and harmonizes different image types. This intermediary processing layer enables customized display protocols to be applied uniformly across multiple modalities, maintaining tight integration while providing the flexibility needed for different diagnostic requirements.
3Measurement precision
If images are registered using current methods with fixed first volumetric image, then registration of few images is possible, but handling multiplicity of patients and modalities becomes problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The system extends the traditional registration approach by introducing additional dimensions for patient identification and modality classification. Instead of limiting registration to a single fixed reference image, the system creates a multi-dimensional registration framework that can simultaneously align images from multiple patients across different modalities, maintaining precision while dramatically increasing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual reference images or coordinate system templates that can be copied and applied across multiple patient cases and modalities. Rather than requiring manual setup of registration parameters for each new patient, the system replicates and adapts proven registration configurations, maintaining alignment accuracy while enabling efficient handling of numerous patients and modalities.
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AI summary
A medical imaging system (10) comprises one or more displays (66). A viewer device (86) generates an interactive user interface screen (80) on the display (66), which viewer device (86) enables a user to simultaneously inspect selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images.