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US 10,096,382 B2Granted
Multi-modality medical image viewing
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsYang-Ming Zhu, Xiangyu Wu, Charles A. Nortmann, Ronald W. Sukalac, Steven M. Cochoff, L. Alan Love, Richard Cheng-Hsiu Chen, Chris A. Dauterman, Madhavi Ahuja, Dawn M. Maniawski
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Abstract
A medical imaging system (10) comprises one or more displays (66). A viewer device (86) generates an interactive user interface screen (80) on the display (66), which viewer device (86) enables a user to simultaneously inspect selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images.
Claims6
A medical imaging system comprising:
- a display for displaying a user interface screen;
- an interface component for controlling the user interface screen to display images of DICOM formatted medical imaging data;
- one or more processors programmed to perform steps of:
- processing DICOM formatted medical imaging data into images;
- defining attributes of a layout of series of images of DICOM formatted medical imaging data to be displayed on the display for a view by a user;
- building a complete display protocol for selected image data based at least on the defined layout attributes, wherein the selected image data includes studies including series;
- based on studies sorting rules, determining a succession in which the studies are to be displayed;
- based on series role sorting rules, selecting a reference series in the study determined to be displayed first;
- and
- based on series sorting rules and the selected reference series, determining a preferred order for series display
- wherein the one or more processors is further programmed to perform steps of:
- building the full display protocol;
- and
- executing the full display protocol;
- further including a protocol engine which establishes a viewing network based on the full display protocol;
- and
- further including a link controller which dynamically links viewers with an associated image data based on linking rules in response to user's interactions such as changing fusion states in viewers.
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A medical imaging method comprising:
- generating an interactive user interface screen on a display;
- controlling the user interface screen to display images of DICOM formatted medical imaging data with an interface component;
- processing DICOM formatted medical imaging data into images;
- simultaneously inspecting selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images on the display;
- defining attributes of a layout of the images;
- and
- displaying the images with the defined attributes on the display for a view by a user;
- wherein the selected image data includes studies including series and further including determining a succession in which the studies are to be displayed and based on studies sorting rules;
- and
- further including building a complete display protocol based at least on the defined layout attributes;
- further including:
- based on series role sorting rules, selecting a reference series in the study determined to be displayed first;
- based on series sorting rules and the selected reference series, determining a preferred order for series display;
- identifying matching layouts based at least on the determined preferred order for the series display;
- based on layout sorting rules and identified matching layouts, determining a succession of launching layouts;
- and
- executing the determined preferential layout;
- further including building the full display protocol, and executing the full display protocol;
- further including establishing a viewing network based on the full display protocol;
- and
- further including automatically linking viewers with an associated image data based on linking rules.
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A medical imaging method comprising:
- generating an interactive user interface screen on a display;
- controlling the user interface screen to display images of DICOM formatted medical imaging data with an interface component;
- processing DICOM formatted medical imaging data into images;
- simultaneously inspecting selected image data of multiple patients or multiple images on the display;
- defining attributes of a layout of the images;
- and
- displaying the images with the defined attributes on the display for a view by a user;
- wherein the selected image data includes studies including series and further including determining a succession in which the studies are to be displayed and based on studies sorting rules;
- further including:
- controlling the display of fused and non fused images with a toggle switch;
- and
- automatically connecting or disconnecting viewers with an associated image data based on a status of the toggle switch;
- and
- further including building a complete display protocol based at least on the defined layout attributes;
- and
- further including:
- based on series role sorting rules, selecting a reference series in the study determined to be displayed first;
- based on series sorting rules and the selected reference series, determining a preferred order for series display;
- identifying matching layouts based at least on the determined preferred order for the series display;
- based on layout sorting rules and identified matching layouts, determining a succession of launching layouts;
- and
- executing the determined preferential layout.
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