Visual Image Registration Tree Structure for Medical Imaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing complexity and volume of medical images from various modalities pose challenges in image registration, leading to long registration times, chaotic relationships between images, and difficulties in troubleshooting registration failures.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for image registration that includes obtaining multiple images, establishing a registration relationship model with multiple registration relationships, and displaying these relationships on a user interface, allowing users to modify, add, or delete registration relationships, and facilitating the adjustment of registration results based on user input.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all images are registered to integrate comprehensive information, then the completeness of information integration is improved, but the registration time increases and the relationship between images becomes chaotic

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation integration completenessVSAvoidregistration time

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the large set of images into multiple groups based on their registration relationships. Each group contains images that share common reference relationships, allowing the system to process and manage images in smaller, organized units rather than handling all images simultaneously, thus reducing registration time while maintaining information integration completeness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a visual dimension by displaying registration relationships in a tree structure on the user interface. This dimensional transformation allows users to comprehend complex registration relationships intuitively through visual representation, making the relationship management efficient even when all images are registered.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Loss of information

If all images are registered to integrate comprehensive information, then the completeness of information integration is improved, but the complexity of managing image relationships increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation integration completenessVSAvoidimage relationship management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments complex registration relationships into hierarchical groups displayed as tree structures. Each node in the tree represents a reference image and its associated images, organizing the complexity into manageable hierarchical levels that users can navigate and understand easily.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a visual interface as an intermediary between the complex registration data and the user. The tree structure visualization acts as a mediator that translates complex registration relationships into an intuitive visual format, reducing the perceived complexity for users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Manufacturing precision

If registration relationships are established for multiple images, then the quality of registration is improved, but the difficulty of troubleshooting registration failures increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveregistration qualityVSAvoidtroubleshooting difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms abstract registration relationships into a visual tree structure displayed on the user interface. This visual representation allows users to trace registration paths and identify failure points by observing the hierarchical structure, making troubleshooting easier while maintaining high registration quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The visual interface provides feedback about registration relationships and their status. Users can see the hierarchical structure of registration relationships and identify potential issues by examining the tree structure, enabling easier detection and measurement of registration problems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple images from different modalities are registered, then the comprehensiveness of multi-modality integration is improved, but the difficulty of registration increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-modality integration comprehensivenessVSAvoidregistration difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments images by modality or reference relationship into distinct groups in the tree structure. This segmentation allows users to manage different modality images separately while maintaining their registration relationships, reducing the operational difficulty of multi-modality integration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250173814A1Methods, systems, and storage medium for image registration

Publication Date: 2025.05.29 SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE

AI summary

A method and system for visual registration of an image are provided. The method may include obtaining multiple images; establishing a registration relationship model including multiple registration relationships each of which is of at least two of the multiple images; and displaying at least a portion of the multiple registration relationships on a user interface, wherein one of the multiple registration relationships presents at least one of a registration mode, a registration direction, or a reference image for registration of at least two of the multiple images.