Operating Room Activity Visualization via Camera Image Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems struggle to accurately visualize the activity levels in entire operating rooms and individual medical staff members, leading to potential misallocation of resources during medical operations.
Innovation Solution
A medical information processing system that calculates the activity levels in entire operating rooms and for each medical staff member using operating room information, including camera images, and generates graphics to visually represent these activity levels over time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If administrative staff check the state of each operating room manually to review medical staff assignment, then resource allocation can be adjusted, but the process is time-consuming and cannot provide real-time visualization of activity levels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual visual inspection and mechanical monitoring with an automated image processing system that uses cameras and algorithms to detect and quantify medical staff activity levels, transforming the mechanical process of checking into an automated computational process
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediate image processing system that acts as a mediator between the operating room environment and the administrative staff, automatically analyzing camera images to extract activity level information and present it in a visualized format
2Loss of information
If the system visualizes activity levels of individual medical staff members, then detailed monitoring is achieved, but it becomes difficult to grasp the overall situation of entire operating rooms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual medical staff activity visualizations with overall operating room activity visualization into a unified display system, where both individual icons and aggregate room-level information are presented together in the same interface
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new dimension of aggregation to the visualization, transforming one-dimensional individual staff activity data into multi-dimensional information that includes both individual levels and overall room summaries, allowing simultaneous viewing at different scales
3Reliability
If the system monitors detailed activity of each medical staff member, then accurate resource allocation decisions can be made, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the monitoring system into distinct functional modules: camera image acquisition, image processing and analysis, activity level calculation, and visualized information presentation, allowing each module to be developed and maintained independently
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service through automated image processing algorithms that automatically detect, track, and quantify medical staff activity without requiring manual intervention, and automatically generate visualized information for administrative decision-making
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a medical information processing system, a medical information processing method, and a program for enabling visualization of situations of entire operating rooms and situations of the respective medical staff members. A medical information processing system is provided, and the medical information processing system includes: a calculation unit that calculates the amount of activity in entire operating rooms and the amount of activity of each medical staff member, on the basis of operating room information including operating room camera images; and a generation unit that generates operating room graphics including graphics indicating a temporal change in the amount of activity in the entire operating rooms, and medical staff graphics including graphics indicating each medical staff member, the medical staff graphics visually changing with the amount of activity. The present disclosure can be applied to a system that manages the operating rooms in a hospital, for example.