JP2001273364A - Medical image information system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical image information system capable of easily, later reproducing a display state of a key image when medical finding data is created. SOLUTION: In the medical image information system with a medical finding data managing means capable of creating and storing medical finding data, a medical image data managing means capable of storing and displaying medical image data and an information network to mutually connect pieces of information of the medical finding data creating means and the medical image data managing means, an image data reproducing means to store attribute information of the specified medical image data and to display the specified medical image data on the medical image data managing means based on the stored attribute information here is provided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medical image information system for managing medical finding data and medical image data, and more particularly, to attribute data of medical image data referred to when creating medical finding data. The present invention relates to a medical image information system capable of easily reproducing a display state of medical image data at the time of generating medical finding data later by storing the medical image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in medical practice, images obtained by an X-ray apparatus, CT, or MR apparatus (hereinafter referred to as a modality apparatus) are replaced with a film such as an X-ray or the like, instead of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communicatio).
(ns in Medicine) standard or the like, and stored as medical image data in storage means such as an image server.

The medical image data stored in the image server is a set of images in which a large number of affected part images are put together as shown in FIG. 5 (hereinafter, such an image is called a study, These images are referred to as images.) These images are stored in the image server as medical image data.

[0004] Each of the study and the image is provided with a unique image number. By designating the image number, for example, a specific high-definition display device used as a terminal device of an image server is specified. Studies or images can be displayed.

FIG. 6 shows a display example of the image viewer described above. In the figure, (a) is an example of a screen on which the image is displayed on a two-split screen, and (b) is an example of a screen on which the image is displayed on a four-split screen. In any of the above screens, an image not displayed on the screen can be displayed on the screen by selecting a screen icon 84 provided at the lower part of the screen with, for example, a mouse or the like.

In addition, any image can be enlarged and displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 7, and the lesion can be best viewed with the gradation value of the image viewer in order to observe the lesion in the affected part image in detail. It is possible to adjust to the value and observe.

[0007] In recent years, a finding report that describes a doctor's findings regarding a test performed on a patient has also been converted into electronic data as medical finding data and stored in a finding server.

In such an apparatus environment, when a physician prepares a finding report, first, a study is displayed on an image viewer, and an image (usually important) which is particularly important in creating medical finding data is displayed. In the following, such an image is referred to as a key image.) As described above, this image is enlarged and displayed while adjusting the gradation value. Observation was performed, and medical finding data was input from a terminal device of the finding server (hereinafter referred to as a finding terminal).

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an example of such a conventional medical image information system. In the figure, the finding server 20 and the finding terminal 31, the image server 40, the image viewer 51, and the printer 60 are interconnected via an information network L such as an intranet.

[0010] A finding database 22 is formed on the hard disk 21 of the finding server 20, and medical finding data is stored therein. An image database 42 is formed on the hard disk 41 of the image server 40, and the medical image data is stored in the hard disk 21. Is stored.

In the medical image information system having such a configuration, since information can be exchanged between the devices connected to the information network L, the key image displayed on the image viewer 51 is displayed on the finding terminal 31. It can be stored in the finding server 20 by attaching to the obtained medical finding data.

In this case, it is difficult to display the key image displayed on the image viewer 51 as it is because of the limitation of the display area of the finding terminal 31. For example, the key image displayed on the image viewer 51 is JPEG ( Joint Photog
The key images 91 and 92 transmitted from the image viewer 51 are attached to the medical finding data input screen 90 displayed on the finding terminal 31 as shown in FIG. And finding server 2
0 was stored.

[0013]

However, in the conventional medical image information system, the key image compressed as described above is attached to a limited space of the medical finding data. When referring to the medical finding data, it was difficult to observe the lesion in detail using only the image attached here. Therefore, it is necessary to display the study on the image viewer again, search for an image serving as the key image from the study, enlarge the image, display the image, adjust the gradation value, and observe the lesion.

Therefore, the conventional medical image information system has a problem that the operation for reproducing the display state of the key image referred to at the time of finding input on the image viewer later is very complicated and time-consuming. .

Further, in some models of the conventional medical image information system, patient information including a patient number and a patient name described in the medical finding data is sent from the finding terminal to the image viewer, and the patient information is sent to the image viewer. In some cases, key images are read out and displayed on an image viewer by searching the image database according to the above.However, these do not directly display the attached key images, but can only be displayed up to the study. Was. Therefore, it was necessary to search again from the displayed studies which image was the key image.

In the medical image information system described above,
Since the information sent from the finding terminal to the image viewer did not include the attribute information indicating the hierarchical value of the image viewer used when inputting the finding, it was necessary to adjust the hierarchical value again on the image viewer.

The present invention solves the above problems,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a medical image information system capable of easily reproducing a display state of a key image at the time of creating medical finding data later.

[0018]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medical finding data management means capable of creating and storing medical finding data, and a medical image data managing apparatus. A medical image data management unit capable of storing and displaying a medical image data, and a medical image information system including an information network interconnecting information of the medical finding data creation unit and the medical image data management unit. Save attribute information of medical image data,
An image data reproducing means for displaying the specified medical image data on the medical image data management means based on the attribute information stored here is provided.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the attribute information includes at least an image number and a gradation value of the specific medical image data. .

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the image data reproducing means includes an image data managing function provided in the medical finding data creating means, and a medical image data managing means. The image data management function stores the attribute information and transmits it to the medical image data management means. The image data selection and display function includes the attribute information. Is transmitted to the medical finding data creating means, and the medical image data is displayed according to the attribute information transmitted from the medical finding data creating means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the designated medical image data is
The key image is referred to when the finding data is created.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the image data management function includes: transmitting the attribute information transmitted from the medical image data management means;
The present invention is characterized in that it can be stored together with medical finding data.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the medical image information system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 2, the difference from the conventional example is that the finding terminal 35 has an image data management function 70 and the image viewer 55 has an image data selection display function 75. The other configurations are the same as those of the conventional example, and thus the same reference numerals are given and the description thereof is omitted.

The image data management function 70 in FIG.
The function of storing the attribute information of the key image (image information including the image number and the gradation value) attached to the medical finding data in the image server 20 together with the medical finding data, and the attribute information of the stored key image It has a function to transmit to the image viewer.

The image data selection and display function 75 shown in FIG. 2 has a function of transmitting the attribute information of the key image displayed on the image viewer to the finding terminal 35 and a function of transmitting the key image in accordance with the attribute information transmitted from the finding terminal 35. Is displayed on the screen.

The operation of the medical image information system configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the doctor causes the finding terminal 35 to display the medical finding data of the patient whose finding is to be input, and causes the image viewer 55 to display the medical image data. (ST1)

The doctor selects a key image from the studies displayed on the image viewer 55, adjusts the hierarchical value to a value at which the lesion can be best observed, and inputs the medical finding data to the finding terminal 35. (ST2)

When the doctor needs to attach the key image to the medical finding data 35, the doctor performs an image transmission operation on the screen of the image viewer 55, and transmits the key image displayed on the image viewer 55 to the finding terminal 35. I do. At this time, the image viewer 55 displays the key image and the attribute information on the finding terminal 35.
To be transmitted. The image transmission operation is performed by, for example, providing an image transmission icon 81 on the screen of the finding terminal 35 and selecting the icon 81 with a mouse, as in a screen example shown in FIG. (ST3)

The finding terminal 35 attaches the key image sent from the image viewer 55 to a predetermined position of the medical finding data. (ST4)

The finding terminal 35 stores the attribute information transmitted from the image viewer 55 together with the medical finding data in the finding server 20 when the medical finding data is saved by the doctor. The saving operation is performed by, for example, providing a saving icon 82 on the screen of the finding terminal 35 and selecting the icon with a mouse, as in a screen example shown in FIG. (ST5)

Thereafter, when it becomes necessary to display the key image attached to the medical finding data again on the image viewer 55, the doctor performs an image display operation from the finding terminal 35. At this time, the finding terminal 35 transmits the attribute information stored together with the medical finding data to the image viewer 55.
The image display operation is performed, for example, by displaying the image display icon 8 on the screen of the finding terminal 35 as in the screen example shown in FIG.
3 by selecting it with the mouse. (ST6)

[0034] The image viewer 55, based on the attribute information of the key image transmitted from the finding terminal, the image server 40
To retrieve a key image to be displayed, and displays the key image using the hierarchical value transmitted from the finding terminal. When the display mode of the image viewer is divided and displayed as shown in FIG. 6, the key image is displayed in the first display area (in FIG. 6, the area where the image of No. 1 is displayed). indicate. (ST7)

As described above, the medical image information system of the present invention can reproduce the key image referred at the time of finding input on the image viewer by a simple operation.

The foregoing description has been directed to specific preferred embodiments for the purpose of describing and illustrating the invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and includes many more modifications without departing from the spirit thereof.
This includes deformation.

[0037]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the invention as set forth in claims 1 to 5, it is possible to reproduce the key image referred at the time of finding input on the image viewer with a simple operation by making a slight modification to the conventional medical image information system. Becomes

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a medical image information system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the medical image information system according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of the medical image information system according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of the medical image information system according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of medical image data.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of conventional medical image data.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of conventional medical image data.

FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram illustrating an example of a conventional medical image information system.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of conventional medical finding data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 20 finding server 21, 41 hard disk 22 finding database 42 image database 31 finding terminal 51 image viewer 60 printer

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Medical finding data management means capable of creating and storing medical finding data; medical image data managing means capable of storing and displaying medical image data; A medical image information system provided with an information network for interconnecting the information of the medical image data management means and the medical image data management means, storing attribute information of the designated medical image data, and A medical image information system comprising an image data reproducing unit for displaying the obtained medical image data on the medical image data management unit. 2. The medical image information system according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information includes at least an image number and a gradation value of the specific medical image data. 3. The image data reproducing means comprises an image data management function provided in the medical finding data creation means, and an image data selection display function provided in the medical image data management means. The management function stores the attribute information and transmits the attribute information to the medical image data management means. The image data selection and display function transmits the attribute information to the medical finding data creating means and stores the medical finding data. The medical image information system according to claim 1, wherein the medical image data is displayed according to the attribute information transmitted from the creating unit. 4. The medical image information system according to claim 1, wherein the designated medical image data is a key image referred to when creating finding data. 5. The medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data management function is configured to store the attribute information transmitted from the medical image data management means together with medical finding data. Image information system.