Medical image processing system for detecting failure and method for operating the same
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorHisashi Endo
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Abstract
A medical image processing system includes an external device having a processor, and an endoscope system, in which the processor is configured to acquire a real-time medical video image from the endoscope system during endoscopy, receive a trigger signal having information regarding failure occurrence created based on a failure scene of the medical video image from the endoscope system, temporarily store the medical video image, extract a failure video image having the failure scene from the temporarily stored medical video image based on a reception timing of the trigger signal, and store the failure video image in a main storage region.
Claims15
A medical image processing system comprising:
- an external device having a processor, the external device being separate from and not included in an endoscope system;
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- the endoscope system,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- acquire a real-time medical video image from the endoscope system during endoscopy;
- receive a trigger signal from the endoscope system, the trigger signal including information regarding failure occurrence created based on a failure scene of the medical video image, the trigger signal being transmitted via a trigger transmission line separate from a video image transmission line, and being generated in a processor device of the endoscope system by failure detection processing that classifies frame images of the medical video image and specifies the failure scene composed of one or more failure frame images indicating a failure of endoscope equipment;
- temporarily store the medical video image in a temporary storage region;
- extract a failure video image having the failure scene from the temporarily stored medical video image based on a reception timing of the trigger signal, the failure video image including scenes chronologically before and after the reception timing;
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- store the failure video image in a main storage region distinct from the temporary storage region, the main storage region comprising non-volatile storage.
A method for operating a medical image processing system that includes an external device having a processor, the external device being separate from and not included in an endoscope system, and the endoscope system, the method comprising:
- a step of acquiring a real-time medical video image from the endoscope system during endoscopy;
- a step of receiving a trigger signal from the endoscope system, the trigger signal including information regarding failure occurrence created based on a failure scene of the medical video image, the trigger signal being transmitted via a trigger transmission line separate from a video image transmission line, and being generated in a processor device of the endoscope system by failure detection processing that classifies frame images of the medical video image and specifies the failure scene composed of one or more failure frame images indicating a failure of endoscope equipment;
- a step of temporarily storing the medical video image in a temporary storage region;
- a step of extracting a failure video image having the failure scene from the temporarily stored medical video image based on a reception timing of the trigger signal, the failure video image including scenes chronologically before and after the reception timing;
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- a step of storing the failure video image in a main storage region distinct from the temporary storage region, the main storage region comprising non-volatile storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.