Multi-Date, Multi-Modality Image Display With Auto-Aligned Viewports
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Solution Overview
Problem
Displaying multiple medical images from different modalities and time points for disease assessment is cumbersome and time-consuming, requiring manual resizing and scrolling, which increases processing demands and reduces efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) that allows for multiple medical images to be displayed in configurable viewports, with automatic resizing and alignment, enabling efficient comparison and analysis of images from different modalities and time points.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple medical images from different modalities and time points are displayed using traditional methods, then complete image comparison is achieved, but user interaction time and processing demands increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple image display functions into a single integrated viewport. The system combines images from different modalities and time points into one unified display area, eliminating the need for users to manually switch between multiple windows or applications. This consolidation maintains complete image comparison capability while dramatically reducing user interaction time and processing demands.
Solution Approach 2:
The viewport is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse image types simultaneously. It can display images from different modalities (CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc.) and different time points within the same display area, providing a universal interface that replaces multiple specialized viewing tools. This universal approach maintains comprehensive comparison capabilities while reducing the time needed to access and compare different image sets.
2Loss of information
If multiple medical images are displayed simultaneously in traditional interfaces, then comprehensive disease assessment is enabled, but device complexity and processing demands increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display area into multiple viewports within a single interface, where each viewport can display a specific image or set of images. This segmentation allows comprehensive disease assessment across multiple images while maintaining a manageable interface structure. The segmented viewports can be independently controlled and configured, reducing overall interface complexity compared to a single overwhelming display area.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds temporal and modality dimensions to the image display by incorporating time point indicators and modality identifiers within the viewport interface. This dimensional approach allows comprehensive disease assessment across multiple dimensions (spatial, temporal, modality) without proportionally increasing interface complexity, as the additional information is integrated into the existing viewport structure rather than requiring separate interfaces.
3Loss of information
If manual resizing and scrolling is used to display multiple medical images, then image comparison capability is maintained, but processing demands and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically configuring the viewport layout and image arrangement before user interaction. Images are pre-organized by modality and time point, and the display parameters are pre-optimized for comparison. This preliminary configuration eliminates the need for users to manually resize and scroll through images, maintaining complete image comparison capability while significantly improving assessment efficiency by reducing interactive processing time.
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AI summary
Methods and systems are herein provided for multi-date, multi-modality imaging display. In one example, a method for displaying multiple images in a graphical user interface (GUI) comprises obtaining one or more medical images and findings data thereof from a database; time ordering the obtained one or more medical images and findings data thereof; and displaying the one or more medical images and at least one corresponding findings data in respective viewports of the GUI based on a selected GUI configuration, wherein the one or more medical images are comparable images.