Whole Body Imaging System with Segmented High Resolution Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for imaging and recording a patient's skin lack efficiency in displaying skin images, identifying abnormalities, and facilitating side-by-side comparisons over time, as well as sharing these images with healthcare professionals and entities.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a wide angle camera and multiple high resolution cameras capturing images simultaneously, with software that arranges and navigates these images to create a standardized, reproducible process for image acquisition, post-processing, and archiving, allowing for detailed viewing and annotation of skin images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple high resolution cameras are used to capture body parts, then image resolution and detail are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the body imaging task into multiple segments, with each high resolution camera capturing a specific body part (head, torso, arms, legs). This segmentation allows each camera to focus on a limited area, achieving high resolution for that portion without requiring a single complex ultra-high-resolution camera for the entire body.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges multiple lower-resolution body part images into a single comprehensive full-body image through software processing. By combining the images from multiple cameras positioned at different locations, the system achieves complete body coverage with high resolution in critical areas without the complexity of a single massive imaging system.
2Loss of time
If simultaneous image capture is implemented, then time efficiency and consistency are improved, but device complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning multiple cameras at predetermined locations around the imaging space before the subject enters. This preliminary setup ensures that when the subject is scanned, all necessary body parts are already within the capture range of appropriate cameras, enabling simultaneous capture without complex real-time coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms where the wide-angle camera captures an initial full-body view, which then provides feedback information about the subject's position and pose. This feedback is used to trigger and coordinate the high-resolution cameras at the appropriate moment, ensuring simultaneous capture of all body parts in the correct sequence without requiring complex pre-synchronization.
3Ease of operation
If automated image processing and navigation are implemented, then ease of operation and analysis are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service through automated image processing algorithms that automatically stitch together body part images into a complete full-body image, automatically detect and annotate skin abnormalities, and provide navigational guidance. This self-service capability reduces the need for manual image assembly and analysis, greatly improving ease of operation despite the underlying computational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary software layer that acts as a mediator between the multiple cameras and the user. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of coordinate transformation, image stitching, and abnormality detection, presenting a simplified interface to the user while managing the complexity of coordinating multiple high-resolution cameras and processing numerous images simultaneously.
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AI summary
A system and method for capturing and navigating whole body images that includes capturing a total body image with a wide angle lens camera and simultaneously capturing body part images of the same body using a plurality of high resolution cameras. The total body image is used as a navigational grid that is associated with the high resolution body part images.