Skin Marking UI for Iterative Specialist Refinement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing algorithms for automatically detecting skin characteristics like spots and pores from images require accurate information generation, which is challenging to achieve fully automatically and often involves significant user workload.
Innovation Solution
An information generating apparatus that includes a marking-user-interface processor to input and aggregate markings from multiple users, with a specialist providing amendments to generate correct information, reducing the user workload by iteratively refining markings until accurate.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If fully automatic information generation is attempted, then productivity increases, but measurement precision deteriorates due to insufficient accuracy of automatically generated correct information
Solution Approach 1:
The information generation process is segmented into multiple stages: initial automatic generation of candidate markings, followed by iterative refinement cycles where specialists review and amend specific portions. This segmentation allows automatic processing to handle volume while human expertise ensures precision at critical decision points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary review process where specialist users act as mediators between automatic generation and final correct information. The marking-user-interface processor serves as a technical intermediary that presents candidate markings to specialists for verification and amendment, combining automated efficiency with human judgment.
2Measurement precision
If more specialist review is performed, then measurement precision improves, but user workload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automatic generation of candidate markings before presenting them to specialists for review. This preliminary action filters out obviously incorrect markings and prepares organized candidate sets, reducing the time specialists need to spend on each review while maintaining high precision through targeted human verification.
3Measurement precision
If iterative refinement is performed, then measurement precision improves, but loss of time increases due to multiple review cycles
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial review cycles where specialists review only portions of markings that require attention, rather than complete re-review of all markings in each iteration. The marking-user-interface processor tracks which markings have been reviewed and amended, enabling efficient partial action that reduces redundant time consumption while achieving sufficient precision through targeted refinement.
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AI summary
An information generating apparatus includes: an information managing unit that associates and manages an image obtained by photographing skin of a person, marking information indicating one or more markings that one or more operators perform with respect to one or more characteristic parts of skin in the image, and amendment information indicating amendment that a specialist makes to the marking information; and a marking-UI processing unit that superimposes and displays the one or more markings, indicated by the marking information, and the amendment, indicated by the amendment information, on the image.