JPH1080403A - Medical system architecture providing www browser data format - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate processes or to enable distributing them by means of a network by executing connection so as to supply image transmitting industrial standard and another kind of medical information between respective computers as a software component. SOLUTION: Units 1-4 constituting an image forming system such as computer tomography CT unit 1, etc., are connected to an image communication network 9 by work stations 5-8. Moreover, local image memories 13 and 14 are independently connected with inspection consors 11 and 12. Connection is also executed to global data network with a network interface 15. Thus, images formed by the respective units 1-4 are stored in a central image memory 10 so as to be able to be transmitted to other work stations 5-8 and to be stored in the local image memories 13 and 14. Besides, data is exchanged with all over the world by the network interface 15.

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 WWW browser data format, and the medical system architecture includes an image detection mode, an image processing apparatus, and an image transmission apparatus. In this case, the device for image processing has a digital image system with a computer, and the computer is capable of exchanging data between various application programs with graphic control elements. Operate accordingly.

[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 , The industry standard image reproduction data format is Hypertext Markup Language Document HT
In ML, this can be solved by a medical system architecture characterized by being deployed using a WWW browser.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION On the one hand, each component is obtained which is self-contained by the DICOM object model, and on the other hand, the data format is useful for image reproduction of the handling using a WWW browser.

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

According to the present invention, W for LNLINE images
A WW browser can be used to provide a data format for reproducing DICOM images into HTML documents.

[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, the medical standard DICOM object module can be combined with WWW browser technology. INLINE in HTML document
New data formats for images are currently done with the data formats XBM and GIF and are used to play DICOM images using a WWW browser.

[0016]

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

Claims (3)

[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 A medical system architecture provided with a WWW browser data format, wherein the data format for image reproduction according to the industry standard is a hypertext markup language document (HTML) and is assigned using a WWW browser. 2. The medical system architecture according to claim 1, wherein the industry standard is a DICOM standard. 3. A data format for reproducing a DICOM image as an HTML document using a WWW browser for an INLINE image.
Or the medical system architecture of 2.