JPH1080402A - Medical system architecture - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate whole connections and to execute a distribution by means of a network by assigning the object protocol of industrial standard to a software component by means of a hyper text make-up language document. SOLUTION: Respective work stations 5-8 are connected to a CT unit 1 as against a computer tomograph, an MR unit as against magnetic resonance and a DSA unit 3 and an X-ray unit 4 as against a digital basic angiogramn. The respective work stations 5-8 control the respective units 1-4 and connect them to an image communication network 9. Then, storage is executed in a central image memory 10 and also transmission is executed to other work stations 5-8. A local image and another work station connected to memories 13 and 14 are connected as remark consols 11 and 12. Moreover, connection is executed to a whole data network with a network interface 15 so that standarized data is exchanged with all over the world.

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 having a component unit for detecting an image, an image processing device, and an image transmission device, wherein the image processing device has a digital image having a calculator. Device
The calculator relates to a medical system architecture of the type operated by graphic control elements according to a method for data exchange between various application programs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Such a medical system structure includes, for example,
Heinz Morneburg [Hrsg:] "Bildgebende Systeme fuer
die medizinische Diagnostik ", Erlangen, Publicis MCD
-verlag, 3. Auflage 1995, pp. 680-697.

[0003] Medical systems are becoming increasingly complex. On the other hand, the scale of expansion of medical systems is increasing as well. However, this requires a very flexible architecture.

[0004] Hitherto known architectures are built substantially without decentralized software and software units.

[0005]

It is an object of the present invention to construct a software unit (object) and to make this software unit as self-contained as possible.
nt). Furthermore, the connections between the units are made location transparent in relation to the point of this unit (object), so that all the connections are combined in one process,
Or be able to be distributed over a network.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided, in accordance with the present invention, an industry standard for transmitting images and other medical information between computers, the industry standard interchanging constituent units of different manufacturers. As a software component, in which a protocol for handling industry-standard objects is assigned in a hypertext make-up language document (HTML). It is configured and solved.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION On the one hand, the DICOM object model provides a self-contained component, on the other hand,
World-Wide-Web (WWW) browser technology helps with navigation through these components.

[0008] The medical industry standard is the DICOM standard (Digital
Imaging and Communications in Medicine) has proven to be advantageous.

In the present invention, the protocol-address can be protocol: // server / directory / filename, the object can be a DICOM object, and the protocol is DICOM.

[0010]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The invention will be described in more detail hereinafter with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a system architecture of a medical computer network. The component units 1 to 4 are used for detecting medical images.
These are, for example, CT units for computer tomography, MR units for magnetic resonance, DS for digital basal angiograms as image forming units.
X for A unit 3, and digital radiograph
It can have a line unit 4. Workstations 5 to 8 can be connected to these component units 1 to 4, which control the component units 1 to 4 and can process and store the detected medical images. . Such workstations are, for example, one or more processor-based small high-speed computers.

The workstations 5 to 8 are connected to an image communication network 9.
And connected to share the formed image and to communicate. Thus, for example, the images formed by the component units 1-4 can be stored in the central image memory 10 or transmitted further to other workstations 5-8.

Other workstations can be connected to the image communication network 9 as finding consoles 11 and 12. This finding console is the local image memory 13,1
4, for example, it can be connected to a jukebox.
In the finding consoles 11 and 12, images detected and filed in the image memory 10 can be called later for finding and filed in the local image memories 13 and 14. The images from this local image memory can be used directly by the finding physician working on the finding console 11 or 12.

A network interface 15 can be connected to the image communication network 9. The internal image communication network 9 is connected to the entire data network via this interface, and can exchange standardized data with various networks all over the world.

The image data exchange via the image communication network 9 is performed in accordance with the DICOM standard which has been sufficiently processed in the medical system. That is, in accordance with industry standards for transmitting images and other medical information between computers. This standard allows digital communication between diagnostic and therapeutic devices from different manufacturers.

According to the present invention, the medical standard DICOM-Object-Model uses WWW browser technology and HTML.
Combined to navigate within a DICOM object in a document. The syntax for the uniform resource locator (URL), ie, the WWW address of the document, is: protocol: // server / directr
y / filename.

Using DICOM as the protocol, separator: //, server name g.com, directory /, and Ghome.html as the file name, the extended DICO
M: //g.com/Ghome.html is obtained for the DICOM object.

An advantage of the present invention is that its flexibility and the ease with which data can be exchanged with other component units.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1,2,3,4 Configuration unit 5,6,7,8 Workstation 9 Image communication network 10 Image memory 11,12 Finding console 13,14 Local image memory

Claims (4)

[Claims] A component unit (1) for detecting an image
4), an image processing apparatus (5 to 8, 11, 12), and a medical system architecture including an image transmission apparatus (9), wherein the image processing apparatus (5 to 8, 11, 12) includes: A digital imaging device with a calculator, which calculates images and other medical information in a medical system architecture of the type operated by graphic control elements according to a method for data exchange between various application programs. Industry standards for transmission between computers have been incorporated, which enable digital communication between component units by different manufacturers as software components, wherein the software components The protocol for handling different objects is Up-Rangejji documents (HTM
L) assigned to the medical system architecture. 2. The industrial standard is a DICOM standard.
The medical system architecture of claim 1. 3. The protocol address is protocol: // ser
3. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the medical system architecture is ver / directory / filename. 4. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the object is a DICOM object and the protocol is DICOM.