JPH10145396A - Medical system architecture with component navigation - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate data exchange between with the outside by integrating connection to be one process and providing an image graphic, so as to improve flexibility for a medium system architecture with an image constituting device. SOLUTION: A CT unit for computer tomography 1, an MR unit for magnetic resonance 2, a unit for digital subtraction angiography 3 and an X-ray unit 4 for digital radiography 4 are respectively controlled by the work stations 5 to 8 of computers to process images to be stored and to store in a central image memory 10 through a communication network 9 to transfer to the work stations 5 to 8. In addition an image is transferred to other workstations 11 and 12 and an image and data are exchanged between with various network through a network interface 15 on a worldwide scale.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medical system architecture provided with component navigation, and the medical system architecture has an image detection mode, an image processing apparatus, and an image transmission apparatus. At that time, the device for image processing,
It has a digital imaging system with a calculator, which operates according to the data exchange scheme between the various application programs with the respective graphic control elements.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Each medical system (for example, the publication "Bi
ldgebende Systeme fuer die medizinische Diagnosti
k ”, Heinz Morneburg [Compiler], Erlangen, Publicis M
CD-Verlag, 3. Auflage 1995, pp. 680-697) is becoming increasingly complex and the extent of expansion of the medical system is increasing at a similar rate. But,
This requires a very flexible architecture.

[0003] Each of the previously known architectures is constructed substantially without decentralized software and software modules.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to configure a software module (object) having characteristics of being held as much as possible. Furthermore,
Each connection between each module to the location of this module (object) must be transparent, so that each connection can be all integrated into one process or distributed over a network .

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided, in accordance with the present invention, a medical system architecture comprising a mode for detecting an image, the apparatus for processing an image and the apparatus for transmitting an image. Apparatus comprises a digital imaging system with a computer, said computer operating according to a scheme for data exchange between various application programs with respective graphic control elements, wherein during said operation, The industry standard for image transmission and other medical information are provided as software components between each computer to enable digital communication between aspects of various manufacturers, and , WWW for said industry standard image in a WWW browser
This can be solved by the extension type being assigned.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION On the one hand, each component self-maintained by the DICOM object model, on the other hand, a new W
Obtained using the WW extension type.

Advantageously, the medical industry standard is based on the DICOM standard.

[0008] According to the present invention, the WWW extension can be an Internet mail extension (MIME), wherein the WWW extension is a DICOM image, a DICOM image.
It corresponds to a COM video or a DICOM viewer.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a system architecture of a medical computer network. For detection of medical images, embodiments 1 to 4 (for example, a CT unit 1 for computer tomography, an MR unit 2 for nuclear magnetic resonance, a DSA unit 3 for digital subtraction angiography, and a digital It has an X-ray unit 4 for radiography 4. Each of the embodiments 1 to 4 has a workstation 5 to 5
8 can be connected and this workstation can be used to control each aspect 1 to 4 to process and store the detected medical images. Such a workstation is, for example, a very fast small computer based on one or more high-speed processors.

Each of the workstations 5 to 8 is connected to an image communication network 9 for distribution of formed images and communication. Thus, for example, images formed in aspects 1-4 can be stored in central image memory 10 or transferred to other workstations 5-8.

Another workstation can be connected to the image communication network 9 as inspection consoles 11 and 12, which can be connected to local image memories 13 and 14, for example a jukebox. In the inspection consoles 11 and 12,
Each image detected and stored in the image memory 10 can later be recalled for examination and stored in the local image memories 13 and 14, from which each image can be directly transferred to the examination console. Available to the inspector working at 11 or 12.

A network interface 15 can be connected to the image communication network 9, and the internal image communication network 9 can be connected via this interface.
Is connected to a global data network, so that standardized data can be exchanged on a worldwide basis using various networks.

In this case, this image and data exchange via the image communication network 9 is based on the DICOM standard, images and other medical information of various manufacturers, which are widely used in medical systems. This is done according to the industry standard for digital communication transmission between the device and each treatment device.

According to the present invention, a new WWW extended MIM
E (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) DICOM
The use of images, DICOM video or a special viewer for each DICOM object is supported.

[0016]

The advantages of the proposal of the present invention are its flexibility and also its simple operability for data exchange with other aspects.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system architecture of a medical computer network.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 CT unit 2 MR unit 3 DSA unit 4 X-ray unit 5-8 Workstation 9 Image communication network 10 Central image memory 11,12 Inspection console 13,14 Local image memory 15 Network interface

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification symbol FI // A61B 5/055 A61B 5/05 390 G06T 1/00 G06F 15/62 R

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A medical system architecture comprising an aspect for image detection (1 to 4), an apparatus for image processing (5 to 8, 11, 12) and an apparatus for image transmission (9), The apparatus for image processing (5 to 8, 11, 1)
2) has a digital imaging system with a computer, said computer operating according to the scheme for data exchange between the various application programs with each graphic control element, The industry standards and other medical information for image transmission are provided as software components between each computer to enable digital communication between aspects of various manufacturers, and Medical system architecture, characterized in that a WWW extension type for said industry standard image in a WWW browser is assigned. 2. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the industry standard is a DICOM standard. 3. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the WWW extension is a multi-purpose Internet mail extension (MIME). 4. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the WWW extensions are for DICOM images. 5. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the WWW extension is for DICOM video. 6. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the WWW extension is for a viewer of each DICOM object.