JP5161646B2 - Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and control program thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a control program therefor, and more particularly to a medical image diagnostic apparatus capable of controlling the arrangement of application icons necessary for examination and visually displaying the progress of the application. Regarding the program.

  Conventionally, there is a technique for processing a series of applications (jobs) in an examination of a patient in a medical image diagnostic apparatus. The series of applications includes an application for collecting images, an application for measuring an affected area, and an application for saving to media. The number and type of applications vary depending on the patient's examination content.

  In order to manage the progress status of each application, for example, a progress management tool is used. This progress management tool displays the currently activated application and the next activated application as a workflow. But it's not like controlling multiple applications.

Further, for example, Patent Document 1 proposes a technique for managing an application by selecting a screen selection switch and displaying a target operation screen.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-25456

  However, with the progress management tool, there is a problem that the switching of applications increases as the number of applications increases, and the progress of the entire inspection cannot be grasped.

  Further, the means for confirming the progress management tool and the means for switching the application are independent of each other, and there is a problem of poor operability.

  Further, in Patent Document 1, although the operation screen can be switched, the progress of all the applications cannot be managed at a glance, and which application should be performed next to the currently performed application. There was a problem that could not be determined.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and its purpose is to display all applications necessary for inspection at a glance, and to display an application on the basis of a specific application. To provide a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a control program for the medical image diagnostic apparatus that are arranged in accordance with the depth of association with an application, and that the progress status can be visually grasped from the displayed application.

  The first feature according to the embodiment of the present invention as set forth in claim 1 is that: a selection means for selecting an application necessary for the currently performed inspection; an application selected by the selection means; The related depth acquisition means for acquiring the related depth of the application, the progress status acquiring means for acquiring the progress status of the application selected by the selecting means, and the icon of the application selected by the selecting means for the related depth And a display means for visually displaying the progress status acquired by the progress status acquisition means on an icon, in accordance with the depth of association acquired by the acquisition means.

  The second feature according to the embodiment of the present invention as set forth in claim 4 is that a selection step for selecting an application necessary for the currently performed inspection, an application selected by the selection step, and an application being activated The related depth acquisition step for acquiring the related depth of the application, the progress acquiring step for acquiring the progress status of the application selected by the selecting step, and the icon of the application selected by the selecting step for the related depth Arranging according to the relation depth acquired in the acquisition step, and causing a computer provided in the medical image diagnostic apparatus to execute a display step of visually displaying the progress acquired in the progress acquisition step on the icon It is characterized by that.

  According to the present invention, all the applications necessary for the inspection are displayed so that they can be grasped at a glance, and the application is arranged according to the depth of relation with the application based on a specific application, Thus, it is possible to provide a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a control program therefor in which the progress status can be visually grasped from the displayed application.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 according to the present invention. In this medical image diagnostic apparatus 1, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 1a, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1b, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 1c, and an input / output interface 1d are connected via a bus 1e. A storage unit 1f, a communication unit 1g, a display unit 1h, an input unit 1i, and a removable disk 1j are connected to the input / output interface 1d.

  The CPU 1a reads out and executes a boot program for starting up the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 from the ROM 1b based on an input signal from the input unit 1i, and reads out various operating systems stored in the storage unit 1f. The CPU 1a performs various controls based on an input signal from the input unit 1i, reads a program and data stored in the ROM 1b and the storage unit 1f and loads them into the RAM 1c, or a program read from the RAM 1c. Based on the command, a series of processes such as data calculation or processing is executed.

  The storage unit 1f includes a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, and the like, and stores programs and data executed by the CPU 1a. In the storage unit 1f, as a program executed by the CPU 1a, for example, an application for managing the progress of an application necessary for the currently performed inspection and visually displaying the application on the display unit 1h with an icon is provided. Be prepared. Hereinafter, this application that appropriately manages the progress of each application and visually displays these applications with icons is referred to as a progress management application.

  An application is an application program corresponding to the basic OS. As an example here, for example, a stress echo collection application for collecting tomograms as an examination of ischemic heart disease, an inspection Viewer application for observation, a media storage application for saving collected tomograms to media, Normal measurement application for measuring the size of the affected area and depth from the body surface, report creation application for creating post-test reports, patient information transfer application for transferring patient information to other devices, Examples include an examination reservation application for making an examination reservation, a printing application for printing a tomogram after examination, a stress measurement application for measuring cardiac functions, and an imaging appointment application for making an appointment for taking an image of a patient. be able to.

  The communication unit 1g is configured by a LAN (Local Area Network) card, a modem, or the like, and enables the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 to be connected to a communication medium such as a local area network or the Internet. That is, the communication unit 1g transmits data received from the communication medium to the CPU 1a via the input / output interface 1d and the bus 1e, and transmits data received from the CPU 1a via the bus 1e and the input / output interface 1d to the communication medium. To do.

  The display unit 1h is a liquid crystal display, for example, and displays a processing result of the CPU 1a based on a signal received from the CPU 1a via the bus 1e and the input / output interface 1d.

  The input unit 1i is configured by an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse through which an operator of the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 inputs various operations. The input unit 1i generates an input signal based on the operation of the operator, and an input / output interface 1d. And transmitted to the CPU 1a via the bus 1e.

  The removable disk 1j is, for example, an optical disk or a flexible disk, and data read by a disk drive (not shown) is transmitted to the CPU 1a via the input / output interface 1d and the bus 1e, and the bus 1e and the input / output interface are transmitted from the CPU 1a. Data received via 1d is written by the disk drive.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1. At least a part of the functional units shown in FIG. 2 is realized by the progress management application being executed by the CPU 1a of FIG.

  When the operation detection unit 2 detects that the mouse wheel button of the input unit 1 i has been pressed for a long time on the inspection screen, the operation detection unit 2 outputs the detection result to the application selection unit 3. The mouse wheel button is a disk-shaped member between the left and right mouse buttons, and you can scroll the window by turning or moving the mouse body while holding it. can do.

  In the following description of the embodiment of the present invention, an operation using a mouse wheel button is taken as an example of a trigger for detecting an operator's operation, but the setting of the trigger operation is freely performed. In particular, the operation is not limited to wheel buttons.

  When the operation detection unit 2 detects that the mouse wheel button has been pressed for a long time, the application selection unit 3 selects an application necessary for the currently performed inspection, and information on the selected application (application Name and identification information) are supplied to the related depth acquisition unit 4, progress acquisition unit 5, and display processing unit 6. Information representing the currently performed examination is input to the application selection unit 3 at a predetermined timing.

  The related depth acquisition unit 4 acquires the related depth with the application selected by the application selection unit 3 based on the application that is activated when the long press is detected. The application necessary for each examination and the depth of the relationship between the applications are determined in advance by the operator of the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1, and the information is registered in a table managed by the related depth acquisition unit 4. Yes. For example, the related depth acquisition unit 4 selects the application a, the application b, and the application c from the information registered in the table as applications necessary for the currently performed examination A, and selects the selected application a, The depth of association between b and c and the application d running when a long press is detected is acquired.

  For example, it can be said that an application that is always started next to a running application is closely related. On the other hand, it can be said that an application that is activated independently regardless of the activated application is not related or is not related. The depth of association can be expressed by an arbitrarily defined expression such as a numerical value of 0 to 100% or an arbitrarily defined 5-level numerical value.

  In the following description, the above-described numerical values of 0 to 100% and arbitrarily determined numerical values of 5 levels are used for the convenience of understanding the related depth (in the case of a 5-level display, from “1” to “ The relationship will become deeper towards 5 ”). Further, the numerical value indicating the depth of association with each application based on the running application is set for explanation, and the depth of association can be freely defined.

  The related depth acquisition unit 4 supplies information indicating the acquired related depth of the application to the display processing unit 6.

  The progress acquisition unit 5 monitors the progress of each application, and acquires the progress of the application selected by the application selection unit 3. The progress status of the application is expressed by a numerical value of 0 to 100%, for example. The progress acquisition unit 5 supplies information indicating the acquired application progress to the display processing unit 6.

  The display processing unit 6 creates an icon that can identify the application from the application information supplied from the application selection unit 3, and represents the related depth of the application supplied from the related depth acquisition unit 4. It arrange | positions on the screen of the display part 1h according to information. Further, the display processing unit 6 visually displays the progress status on an icon arranged on the screen of the display unit 1 h according to the information indicating the progress status of the application supplied from the progress status acquisition unit 5.

  Next, display control processing executed by the progress management application will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Here, for example, it is assumed that an ischemic heart disease is being examined and a stress echo collection application is activated. While the current stress echo collection application is running, an image collected by the stress echo is displayed on the display unit 1h. For convenience of explanation, FIG. 4 shows a display showing this state instead of the image etc. The word “stress echo collection application is starting up” is shown.

  In step S1, the operation detection unit 2 determines whether or not the mouse wheel button has been pressed for a long time on the screen shown in FIG. 4, and detects that the mouse wheel button has been pressed for a long time. Wait until. When the operation detection unit 2 detects that the mouse wheel button has been pressed for a long time, the operation detection unit 2 supplies the detection result to the application selection unit 3.

  In step S2, the application selection unit 3 selects an application necessary for the inspection currently being performed. For example, imaging appointment application, examination appointment application, printing application, media storage application, examination viewer application, patient information transfer application, report creation application, normal measurement application, and stress measurement application as applications necessary for examination of ischemic heart disease Is selected.

  In step S3, the related depth acquisition unit 4 is selected by this application and the process of step S2 on the basis of the application activated when a long press of the wheel button of the mouse is detected by the process of step S1. Get the depth of association with the selected application.

  For example, among the applications acquired as necessary for the examination of blood heart disease, the imaging reservation application and the stress measurement application are acquired that the depth of association with the stress echo collection application is one of five levels. . That is, the imaging reservation application and the stress measurement application are not closely related because they cannot be selected while the stress echo collection application is activated.

  Further, the examination reservation application, the print application, the media storage application, the patient information transfer application, the report creation application, and the normal measurement application are acquired to have a depth of 3 of 5 levels with the stress echo collection application. . That is, the examination appointment application, the print application, the media storage application, the patient information transfer application, the report creation application, and the normal measurement application are related because they can be selected while the stress echo collection application is activated.

  Further, the inspection viewer application is obtained that the depth of association with the stress echo collection application is 5 of 5. That is, the inspection viewer application is the most relevant because it is selected for zooming in and out of the tomographic image collected by the stress echo collection application.

  In step S4, the progress acquisition unit 5 acquires the progress of each application selected in the process of step S2. For example, it is acquired that the progress of the examination reservation application is 100% (that is, it has been completed). Further, it is acquired that the progress status of the patient information transfer application is 80%, the progress status of the report creation application is 50%, and the progress status of the normal measurement application is 20%.

  Information on the application selected in the process of step S2, information indicating the depth of association between the applications acquired in the process of step S3, and information indicating the progress of the application acquired in the process of step S4 are display processing. Supplied to section 6.

  In step S5, the display processing unit 6 creates an icon that can identify the application from the information of the application selected in the process of step S2, and determines the related depth of the application acquired in the process of step S3. It arrange | positions on the screen of the display part 1h according to the information to represent. The display processing unit 6 visually displays the progress status on the icon according to the information indicating the progress status of the application acquired in the process of step S4.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for managing the progress status of each application displayed on the display unit 1h by the progress management application.

  As shown in FIG. 5, an icon A1 of a stress echo collection application, which is an application that is currently running, is arranged at the center of the screen, and an imaging reservation application icon A2, an inspection reservation application icon A3, and a printing application icon are arranged around the icon A1. A4, media storage application icon A5, examination viewer application icon A6, patient information transfer application icon A7, report creation application icon A8, normal measurement application icon A9, and stress measurement application icon A10 are arranged. . In the example of FIG. 5, a rectangular icon is displayed as an icon of each application.

  Since the examination viewer application is most closely related to the stress echo collection application, the examination viewer application icon A6 is arranged closest to the stress echo collection application icon A1.

  Since the examination appointment application, printing application, media storage application, patient information transfer application, report creation application, and normal measurement application are closely related to the stress echo collection application next to the examination viewer application, their icons A3, A4, A5 , A7, A8, A9 are arranged around the icon A1.

  Since the imaging reservation application and the stress measurement application are not related to the stress echo collection application, their icons A1 and A10 are arranged at a position farthest from the icon A1. Further, a display indicating that the application cannot be executed at this timing (in the example of FIG. 5, an x mark) is displayed.

  Since the examination reservation application has already been activated, the progress status is 100%, and the corresponding icon A3 is shaded in its entirety. The patient information transfer application has a progress status of 80%, and the icon A7 is displayed in a shaded manner in almost 80% of the entire rectangle. Furthermore, the progress status of the normal measurement application is 20%, and the icon A9 is displayed in a shaded manner in almost 20% of the entire rectangle.

  Note that the arrangement positions of the icons shown in FIG. 5 are merely examples, and can be arbitrarily changed by the operator of the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1. In the example of FIG. 5, the icons A1 to A10 are displayed. However, the displayed icons differ depending on the type and contents of the examination, and are not limited to this. That is, according to the type and content of the inspection, the progress status of the application and the applicability of the application can be visually expressed.

  For example, in the screen shown in FIG. 5, when the progress status of the currently active stress echo collection application reaches 100% (finishes), the stress echo collection application icon A1 is displayed in the entire rectangle as shown in FIG. Is shaded. Since the stress measurement application can be selected when the stress echo collection application is terminated, the icon A10 is switched so as to be arranged in the vicinity of the icon A1 of the stress echo collection application. Since the test for ischemic heart disease is performed in the order of stress echo collection, stress measurement, and so on, when the stress echo collection application that collects stress echo is completed, the stress measurement application is usually executed next. Application. Furthermore, the patient information transfer application that has been background-processed is no longer related to the stress echo collection application because the progress status becomes 100%, and the icon A7 is arranged at a position farthest from the icon A1. Switch to

  In this way, since all of the applications required for the inspection are arranged via the icons according to the depth of relation with the application centering on the icon of the currently running application, the operator can The application to be processed next can be determined at a glance. Further, since the progress is visually displayed on the icon, the operator can also manage the progress of the application at the same time.

  Furthermore, the application can be easily switched by operating the mouse to move the mouse pointer P onto a desired icon and double-clicking to select it.

  For example, when the stress measurement application icon A10 is selected on the screen shown in FIG. 6, the stress measurement application is activated on the display unit 1h (not shown). Along with this activation, the stress measurement application screen is displayed (see FIG. 4 for the screen to be displayed). When the mouse wheel button is pressed for a long time on the screen on which the stress measurement application is activated (step S1), an application necessary for the current examination is selected (step S2) and currently activated. The depth of the relationship between the selected stress measurement application and the selected application is acquired (step S3), the progress of the selected application is acquired (step S4), and the depth of the relationship between the applications and the progress are displayed on each application icon. Is reflected and a screen as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed on the display unit 1h (step S5).

  In this case, as shown in FIG. 7, the icon A10 of the stress measurement application that is the currently activated application is arranged at the center of the screen, and the icon A1 of the stress echo collection application that has been processed is arranged at a position far from the icon A10. The

  By adopting the above configuration, all the applications required for inspection are displayed so that they can be grasped at a glance, and the applications are arranged according to the depth of relation with the specific application as a reference. In addition, it is possible to provide a medical image diagnostic apparatus and a control program therefor in which the progress status can be visually grasped from the displayed application.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and in the implementation stage, the constituent elements may be modified and embodied without departing from the scope of the invention, or a plurality of configurations disclosed in the above-described embodiment may be used. Various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining elements. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine the component covering different embodiment suitably.

  For example, in the above, when a mouse wheel button is pressed and held on a screen on which a predetermined application is activated, a screen for managing the progress of each application shown in FIG. 5 is displayed. As shown in FIG. 8, when the display unit 1h of the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 is a wide monitor, the screen W2 for managing the progress of each application may be displayed side by side on the examination screen W1. it can. Thus, the operator can manage the overall progress status while performing the inspection.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 9, when the medical image diagnostic apparatus 1 includes a sub window SW such as a touch panel in addition to the display unit 1h, a screen W2 for managing the progress of the application is displayed in the sub window SW. You can make it. Thereby, like the wide monitor, the operator can manage the overall progress status while performing the inspection.

  Furthermore, when displaying the screen for managing the progress status of each application as described above, the icon of the currently running application is placed at the center of the screen, and the icon of the application required for inspection is arranged in the vicinity according to the related depth. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, as shown in FIG. 10, the icon of the currently running application is arranged at the upper left of the screen, and the icon of the application necessary for the inspection is set to the relevant depth. You may make it arrange | position according to it. In the case of the example in FIG. 10, the icon application on the left side of the screen is more related to the stress echo collection application A1, and the icon application on the right side of the screen is less related to the stress echo collection application A1.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the medical image diagnostic apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the function structural example of a medical image diagnostic apparatus. It is a flowchart explaining a display control process. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen displayed on a display part. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on the display unit when a mouse wheel button is pressed and pressed on the screen of FIG. 4. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen displayed on a display part when a stress echo collection application is complete | finished on the screen of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen displayed on a display part, when the icon of a stress measurement application is selected on the screen of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen displayed on a wide monitor. It is a figure which shows the example of an external appearance of the medical image diagnostic apparatus provided with the subwindow. It is a figure which shows the example of the other screen displayed on a display part.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus 2 Operation detection part 3 Application selection part 4 Related depth acquisition part 5 Progress condition acquisition part 6 Display processing part

Claims (4)

Selection means to select the application required for the current inspection,
A related depth acquisition means for acquiring a depth of relation between the application selected by the selection means and a running application;
Progress acquisition means for acquiring the progress of the application selected by the selection means;
The icon of the application selected by the selecting means is arranged according to the related depth acquired by the related depth acquiring means, and the progress status acquired by the progress status acquiring means is A medical image diagnostic apparatus comprising: display means for visually displaying on an icon. It further comprises detection means for detecting that a predetermined operation has been performed on the screen of the examination currently being performed,
The selection unit selects an application necessary for the currently performed inspection when the detection unit detects that the predetermined operation has been performed,
The related depth acquisition unit is configured to obtain a depth of relationship between an application selected by the selecting unit and an application that is activated when the detection unit detects that the predetermined operation is performed. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information to be expressed is acquired. The display means places an icon of an application that is activated when the detection means detects that the predetermined operation has been performed at the center of the screen, and an application selected by the selection means around the screen. The medical image diagnosis apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the icon is arranged in accordance with the related depth. A selection step to select the application required for the current inspection,
An associated depth acquisition step for obtaining an associated depth between the application selected by the selection step and an application being activated;
A progress acquisition step of acquiring the progress of the application selected by the selection step;
The icon of the application selected in the selection step is arranged according to the related depth acquired in the related depth acquisition step, and the progress status acquired in the progress status acquisition step is A control program that causes a computer included in the medical image diagnostic apparatus to execute a display step of visually displaying on an icon.

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