WO2005074808A1 - 遠隔超音波診断被検体側装置、遠隔超音波診断診察者側装置、および遠隔超音波診断システム - Google Patents
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- Remote ultrasonic diagnostic subject side device remote ultrasonic diagnostic examiner side device, and remote ultrasonic diagnostic system
- the present invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic system for medical use, and in particular, an ultrasonic image that can withstand the diagnosis of a medical examiner even if the subject and the examiner (hospital doctor) are physically separated.
- the present invention relates to a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system that can be provided.
- ultrasonic diagnostic apparatuses that easily provide tomographic images of a subject as real-time ultrasonic moving images become smaller
- intensive ultrasonic diagnostic apparatuses are used in locations other than the ultrasound examination room, for example, bedside of a hospital ward. It is playing an important role at the time of various medical diagnoses and examinations such as personal clinics and in-house health control rooms.
- the data rate that can be used for communication lines such as the Internet has been dramatically increased in speed V, but the real-time ultrasonic moving image generated by the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus can not be compressed. It has not reached the speed that can be sent in the state. Therefore, in the above-described conventional example, the upper limit value of the data rate of the communication line is less than or equal to the upper limit value of the communication line when transmitting the real-time ultrasonic moving image.
- highly efficient data compression methods such as the MPEG method that can compress image information and minimize image quality deterioration, the image is as close as possible to the original image even when the data rate of the line is low! Efforts to send real-time ultrasonic motion images are continued!
- the image quality is reduced, the image size is reduced, and the frame rate is reduced due to the speed of the communication line. It is necessary to exclude factors that may adversely affect medical diagnosis, such as
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-17732
- the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the object thereof is to allow an examiner to diagnose a remote subject via a communication line, even when the data rate of the line is low.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system capable of displaying an ultrasonic image in which the deterioration of image quality is sufficiently suppressed compared to the original image quality.
- an examiner-side device for an examiner to diagnose a remote subject using an ultrasonic image through a communication line, and a subject-side device on the subject side. It assumes that it has a remote ultrasound diagnostic system.
- the first object-side apparatus emits the electro-acoustic conversion means by driving the electro-acoustic conversion means with a transmission pulse, and is reflected in the object.
- An ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo that returns, an image generating unit for generating ultrasonic image data from an ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit, and the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit
- a cine memory for sequentially storing received ultrasonic signals in frame units, and a frame requested to be retransmitted by the examiner side device after freeze are reproduced from the cine memory, and the examinee side device is transmitted via the communication line.
- a communication line interface for retransmitting to
- the first examiner-side device may be configured such that after freezing, the ultrasound signal received by the ultrasound transmitting / receiving unit of the subject-side device is reproduced from the cine memory sequentially stored frame by frame.
- a communication line interface for sending a retransmission request for the reproduction target frame to the communication line interface of the subject side device each time the pointer pointing to the target frame is moved, and for retransmitting via the communication line;
- An image construction unit that constructs an ultrasound image of a retransmitted frame, and a display unit that displays the ultrasound image constructed by the image construction unit.
- the first remote ultrasonic diagnostic system has a configuration in which the first object side apparatus and the first remote ultrasonic diagnostic examiner side apparatus are connected via the communication line. .
- the subject side device is provided with a cine memory function, and the examinee (hospital) side device is frozen, and then the hospital side device is provided with a frame pointer for the purpose of cine memory reproduction.
- a frame may be dropped intermittently due to an insufficient speed of the communication line in the live mode, or Even if a plurality of frames are dropped continuously due to a communication failure in the communication line, cine memory playback display can be performed without dropping by frames on the hospital side after freezing.
- the communication line interface of the subject side device is configured to receive at least a portion of the total frames accumulated in the cine memory of the subject side device after freezing.
- the examiner-side device has a cine memory for storing an ultrasound image of the retransmitted frame after freeze-up! ,.
- the hospital-side device also has a cine-memory function, and information stored in the cine-memory of the subject-side device immediately after freezing (for example, in the background) is received and stored in the hospital-side device cine memory. For example, even if the line condition is bad and the line between the subject side and the hospital side is disconnected, it is possible that the hospital side device alone can diagnose with the cine memory replay display without missing frames. Become.
- the subject side apparatus may further comprise display means for retransmitting to the examinee side apparatus to display an ultrasound image which is V, Preferred.
- the frame when retransmitting a frame requested to be retransmitted from the hospital side device to the hospital side device, the frame can also be displayed on the second display means of the object side device.
- the operator) and the hospital side (doctor) can share diagnostic information from the same image.
- a second object side apparatus emits the electro-acoustic conversion means by driving the electro-acoustic conversion means with a transmission pulse, and is reflected in the object.
- An ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo that returns, an image generating unit for generating ultrasonic image data from an ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit, and the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit
- a cine memory for sequentially storing received ultrasonic signals in frame units, and a frame requested to be re-sent to the object side apparatus after being frozen are reproduced from the cine memory and displayed as an ultrasonic image.
- a display means and a frame corresponding to an ultrasonic image displayed on the display means and displayed on the display means are transmitted through the communication line. And a communication line interface for retransmitting to the examiner side device.
- the second examiner side apparatus is a communication line interface for receiving a frame retransmitted via the communication line after the freeze, on the communication line interface of the subject side. And an image construction unit configured to construct an ultrasound image of the retransmitted frame, and a display unit configured to display the ultrasound image constructed by the image construction unit.
- a second remote ultrasonic diagnostic system has a configuration in which a second object side apparatus and a second examiner side apparatus are connected via a communication line.
- the subject side apparatus uses the reproduction function from the cine memory to reproduce and display on the display means of the subject side apparatus, the frame displayed is retransmitted to the hospital side apparatus.
- the frame displayed is retransmitted to the hospital side apparatus.
- a third object-side apparatus emits the electro-acoustic conversion means by driving the electro-acoustic conversion means with a transmission pulse, and is reflected in the object.
- An ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit that receives an ultrasonic echo that returns, and an image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image data by performing filtering processing on the ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit;
- a communication line interface for transmitting the ultrasonic image data generated by the image generation unit to the examiner side apparatus via the communication line.
- a third examiner side apparatus is a communication line for receiving ultrasonic image data transmitted from the communication line interface of the object side apparatus via the communication line.
- An interface for receiving ultrasonic image data transmitted from the communication line interface of the object side apparatus via the communication line.
- An interface for receiving ultrasonic image data transmitted from the communication line interface of the object side apparatus via the communication line.
- An interface for receiving ultrasonic image data transmitted from the communication line interface of the object side apparatus via the communication line.
- scan conversion means for converting the number of scanning lines of the received ultrasound image data
- display means for displaying the ultrasound image data scan-converted by the scan conversion means.
- the third remote ultrasonic diagnostic system has a configuration in which the third object side apparatus and the third examiner side apparatus are connected via a communication line.
- the image generating unit performs filtering processing (or resampling processing) in order to optimize the ultrasonic image data for the scan converter of the hospital side apparatus.
- the image data that has been optimized is sent directly to the communication line, and the hospital side device converts the number of scanning lines of ultrasound image data received via the communication line by the scan conversion means and displays the image. This makes it possible to transmit and receive real-time ultrasonic moving images, which do not require special image compression means and therefore do not generate compression time lags.
- the display unit of the examiner-side device displays the real-time ultrasonic moving image sent out from the subject-side device as a real-time ultrasonic moving image.
- the original image data can be transmitted in real time at a data rate equal to or lower than that of the case of using the high compression ratio image compression means. Therefore, the hospital side apparatus connected via the communication line It is possible to receive real-time ultrasonic moving images without losing image quality.
- the subject-side device is a scan conversion means for converting the number of scanning lines of ultrasound image data generated by the image generation unit; It is preferable to further comprise: display means for displaying the ultrasonic image data scan line converted by the scan conversion means.
- the scan converter in the subject side device as well, it is possible to display the same image as the image displayed on the hospital side device as the real time ultrasonic moving image even in the subject side device.
- the diagnostic information can be shared between the subject (operator) and the hospital (doctor).
- the fourth object-side apparatus emits the electro-acoustic conversion means by driving the electro-acoustic conversion means with a transmission pulse, and is reflected in the object.
- An ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit that receives an ultrasonic echo that returns, and an image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image data by performing filtering processing on the ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave transmitting / receiving unit;
- a cine memory for sequentially storing the ultrasonic signals received by the ultrasonic transmitting / receiving unit in frame units, and the examinee-side device after freezing
- a communication line interface for reproducing the frame requested to be retransmitted from the cine memory and retransmitting the frame to the examiner side apparatus via the communication line.
- the fourth examiner side apparatus is, after freezing, reproduced from the cine memory, which sequentially stores the ultrasonic signals received by the ultrasonic transmitting and receiving unit of the subject side apparatus in frame units.
- a communication line interface for sending a retransmission request for the reproduction target frame to the communication line interface of the subject side device each time the pointer pointing to the target frame is moved, and for retransmitting via the communication line;
- An image construction unit configured to construct an ultrasound image by the scan conversion unit, and a scan conversion unit configured to convert the number of scanning lines of ultrasound image data of a retransmitted frame; and an ultrasound constructed by the image construction unit
- display means for displaying an image.
- the fourth remote ultrasonic diagnostic system has a configuration in which the fourth object side apparatus and the fourth examiner side apparatus are connected via a communication line.
- the remote ultrasonic diagnostic system of the present invention when the examiner diagnoses a remote object via the communication line, the image quality is degraded compared to the original image quality even when the line data rate is low. It is possible to display a sufficiently suppressed ultrasound image.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 A schematic diagram showing that a frame dropout occurs due to the condition of the communication line
- FIG. 3 A schematic view showing a state in which a frame requested to be reproduced from the cine memory is retransmitted.
- FIG. 4 A schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a second embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 5 A schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a third embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 6 A schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 7 shows an example of the configuration of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 A schematic diagram illustrating the number of acoustic scanning lines of the ultrasonic probe of FIG. 1 during a single density sweep.
- FIG. 9 A schematic diagram illustrating the number of image data input to the scan converter of FIG.
- FIG. 10 A schematic view illustrating an ultrasound image of VGA size displayed on the observation module of FIG.
- FIG. 11 A schematic block diagram showing a modification of the remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to the fifth embodiment when a personal computer is used as a hospital side apparatus
- FIG. 12 A schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 13 A schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- the transmission pulse generated by the ultrasonic transmitting / receiving unit 12 in the object side apparatus 10A drives the ultrasonic probe 11 (electroacoustic conversion means) connected to the object side apparatus 10A, and the ultrasonic probe 11 Ultrasonic signals are transmitted into the sample and reception is started simultaneously.
- the received ultrasound signal is delayed and synthesized by the ultrasound transmission / reception unit 12, and ultrasound image data is generated by the image generation unit 13.
- an input signal to the image generation unit 13 is also input to a cine memory 15 (a cine memory of the object side apparatus), and the cine memory 15 sequentially stores the received signal from the ultrasound transmission / reception unit 12 as image information in frame units. Go on.
- a cine memory 15 a cine memory of the object side apparatus
- the communication line interface 14 (the communication line interface of the object side apparatus) is also sent out to the communication line (network) 30 such as the Internet or LAN.
- the subject side device 10A also receives the image data transmitted via the communication line 30 by the communication line interface 21 (communication line interface of the examinee side device). Then, the image data is sent to the image construction unit 22 and finally the ultrasonic image is displayed on the observation monitor 23 (display means of the examiner side device).
- the hospital side device 20A is used to reproduce the cine memory.
- the subject side device 10A retransmits the image specified by the pointer, and even if the frame is dropped intermittently due to a lack of speed in the communication line even in the live mode, or It is possible to provide an excellent remote ultrasonic diagnostic system capable of reproducing and displaying cine memory without dropout by the hospital side device 20A after freeze even if multiple frames are dropped continuously due to communication failure. It becomes possible.
- the hospital side apparatus 20 A may use a personal computer connectable to the communication line.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasound diagnostic system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- the cine memory 25 (the cine memory of the examinee side device) is also provided in the hospital side device 20B.
- a cine memory playback instruction is issued from the console 24. Even if the image is dropped during the live mode, all frames are stored in the cine memory 25 after freezing. Since the image has been retransmitted, the observation monitor 23 can reproduce and display the cine memory image without missing frames.
- the hospital-side device is also provided with the cine-memory function, and the force immediately after freezing is also stored in the cine-memory 15 of the subject-side device (at a pack ground, etc.) If it is received and stored in the cine memory 25 of the hospital side device, even if the line condition is deteriorated and the line between the subject side and the hospital side is disconnected, the frame side dropped by the hospital side device 20B alone. A diagnosis can be made by cine memory reproduction display without omission.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
- the observation monitor 16 (display means of the object side device) is also provided in the object side device 10B.
- the observation monitor 1 of the object apparatus 10B when retransmitting a frame requested to be retransmitted from the hospital apparatus 20A to the hospital apparatus 20A, the observation monitor 1 of the object apparatus 10B.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasound diagnostic system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- a console 17 is provided in the object side apparatus 10C.
- FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- the transmission pulse generated by the ultrasonic transmission / reception unit 12 in the object side apparatus 10D drives the 128ch type ultrasonic probe 11, and an ultrasonic signal is transmitted from the ultrasonic probe 11 into the object. Reception is started at the same time.
- the received ultrasonic signals are delayed and synthesized by the ultrasonic transmission / reception unit 12, and the image generation unit 18 performs filtering processing, resampling processing), and is optimized for scan conversion. It is converted into ultrasound image data of the number of data.
- the ultrasound image data subjected to the filtering process by the image generation unit 18 is transmitted from the communication line interface 14 to the communication line. Sent to 30
- the communication line interface 21 in the hospital-side device 20 D receives the ultrasonic image data transmitted through the communication line 30, and the received ultrasonic image data is scanned by the scan comparator 27. Input to the scan conversion means of the apparatus.
- the scan converter 27 shapes the ultrasound image data into a screen shape that matches the physical shape of the ultrasound probe 11 and causes the observation monitor 23 to display the ultrasound image.
- the observation monitor 23 of the hospital apparatus 20D is NTSC. If you want to display a standard black and white video signal, you need 8-bit data at 30 frames per second with at least black and white VGA size (640 pixels x 480 lines). Therefore, as expressed by the following (Equation 1), a data rate of about 74 Mbps is required at the effective speed, and it can be understood that the amount of information is too large when transmitting and receiving through a general communication line. . Therefore, efficient image compression means such as MPEG are indispensable.
- the number of acoustic scanning lines in the case where a 128-ch ultrasonic probe 11 is connected to the object-side device 10 D is about 100 in a standard single density sweep, as shown in FIG. .
- the number of image data input to the scan converter 27 is also 100, which is the same as the number of acoustic scanning lines, and is output from the image generation unit 18 and input to the communication line interface 14 as shown in FIG.
- the number of image data per frame is also 100.
- the number of image data per frame received by the communication line interface 21 of the hospital apparatus 20D There are also 100 books.
- the scan converter 27 shapes the 100 image data into a screen shape that matches the physical shape of the probe and displays an ultrasound image of one frame of VGA size on the observation monitor 23 as shown in FIG.
- the frame rate of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is lower than that in the black and white mode, so the data rate of the image data immediately before the scan converter 27 does not change, but it decreases (Equation 2) It does not change to about 10 Mbps or more at the effective speed represented by). That is, in the color Doppler mode, as represented by the following (equation 4), an effect equivalent to the case where the image data is compressed to about 1 Z23 is obtained.
- FIG. 11 shows an example of using a personal computer as a hospital apparatus.
- the image processing capabilities of personal computers in recent years have made remarkable progress, It has become possible to construct the scan converter part of the ultrasonic diagnostic device only with software.
- the connection function with the communication line (network) is also standard equipment.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention.
- the received ultrasound signals are delay-combined in the ultrasound transmission / reception unit 12, subjected to filtering processing by the image generation unit 18, and converted into ultrasound image data of the number of data optimized for scan conversion.
- the ultrasound image data subjected to the filtering process by the image generation unit 18 is a personal computer 41 incorporating a connection function with the communication line 30 by software (a communication line interface of the object side apparatus, scan conversion means, It is input to the display means) and sent out to a communication line (network) 30 such as the Internet or LAN.
- a communication line (network) 30 such as the Internet or LAN.
- the scan converter function is also incorporated into the personal computer 41 as software, the same real-time ultrasonic moving image as the ultrasonic image displayed on the personal computer 40 which is the hospital side apparatus is It is possible to provide an excellent remote ultrasound diagnostic system that can be displayed on the screen of the personal computer 41 and that the subject (operator) and the hospital (doctor) can share diagnostic information. Become.
- FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration example of a remote ultrasonic diagnostic system according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention.
- This embodiment has a configuration in which the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is combined with the fifth embodiment shown in FIG.
- the image construction unit 28 in the hospital-side device 20E is configured to include a scan comparator that converts the number of scanning lines of the ultrasound image data of the transmitted frame.
- the specific operation regarding the cine memory 15 or the scan converter is as described in the above-described embodiments. Re from cine memory 15 The same process as described above using the scan converter is performed on the ultrasound image data of the frame to be transmitted.
- the subject side apparatus and the hospital side apparatus described in each of the above embodiments can be used in combination.
- the communication line may be a dedicated LAN in the hospital, or may be connected to the Internet network by a general TCP / IP protocol.
- the image data is relayed by the server function in the middle, and multiple doctors can be connected as a hospital-side device, a large number of doctors can be examined at the same time. Similar remote diagnoses can be performed even if they are separated. Conversely, the same effect can be obtained even if the object side device and the hospital side device are directly connected one-to-one with a crossover cable for Ethernet (registered trademark).
- recording video images as image data to be recorded in cine memory, and adding image compression and image expansion functions such as MPEG to each device can provide further effects.
- the remote ultrasonic diagnostic system has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to other medical imaging apparatuses (for example, X-ray CT apparatus, magnetic resonance image, etc. (MRI) and nuclear magnetic diagnostic equipment).
- medical imaging apparatuses for example, X-ray CT apparatus, magnetic resonance image, etc. (MRI) and nuclear magnetic diagnostic equipment.
- the remote ultrasonic diagnostic system when the examiner diagnoses a remote object via the communication line, the image quality is degraded compared to the original image quality even when the data rate of the line is low. It has the advantage of being able to display fully suppressed ultrasound images, and is useful for intra-hospital and inter-hospital network systems etc. where multiple physicians can see at the same time.
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