Method and medical diagnosis computer for displaying medical diagnosis data and/or information about medical diagnosis data

• US 10,433,727 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2017
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GMBH (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Canda, Valer
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Motilewa Good
• Application Number:
  US15/720,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20180084998A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0035 adapted for acquisition of images from more than one imaging mode, e.g. combining MRI and optical tomography
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/501 for diagnosis of the head, e.g. neuroimaging or craniography
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display composite display in devices for short-range imaging with acoustic waves G01S7/52074
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/466 adapted to display 3D data 3D imaging and stereoscopic displays in devices for short-range imaging with acoustic waves G01S15/8993 and G01S7/52068, respectively; 3D image rendering G06T15/00; manipulating 3D models for computer graphics G06T19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images computed tomography A61B6/03
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

In a method and computer for displaying medical diagnosis data and/or information about medical diagnosis data at a display screen, an item of information of a displayed content of different categories of medical diagnosis data and/or information about medical diagnosis data is determined in the computer. Using the displayed content, region sizes for display regions, which are respectively associated with one of the different categories are determined, and the display regions are displayed dependent on their region size.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a medical diagnosis output comprising at least one of medical diagnosis data and information about medical diagnosis data, at a display screen of a medical diagnosis computer, said method comprising:

providing said computer with at least two different categories of at least one of said medical diagnosis data and said information about medical diagnosis data in said medical diagnosis output;

in said computer, determining of displayed content for each of said at least two different categories;

at said display screen, displaying said displayed content of said at least two different categories in at least two display regions respectively associated with said at least two categories;

receiving an input into said computer that correlates multiple different categories with each other, among said at least two different categories;

in said computer, determining a region size for a single display region for said correlated multiple different categories dependent on respective sizes of the display regions for said displayed content of each of said correlated multiple different categories, and changing said display screen to display the display content of all of said correlated multiple different categories in said single region; and

simultaneously displaying said single display region at said display screen with the determined single region size.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, for at least one of said display regions, having a category associated therewith for which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, suppressing display of said at least one display region at said display screen.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, for at least one of said display regions having an associated category for which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, displaying a representative element at said display screen for said at least one display region.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, for at least one of said display regions having an associated category for which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, displaying a minimum-sized display region at said display screen.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, when at least one display region has an associated category for which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, displaying a further display region, having an associated category for which medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data does exist, at said display screen with a predetermined region size.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, when at least one display region has an associated category for which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, displaying a further display region, having an associated category for which medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data does exist, at said display screen with a adjusted region size.

7. A method as claimed in claim 6 comprising, via said computer, adjusting a size of said adjusted region size so as to cause at least two of said further display region with proportionally adjusted respective region sizes.

8. A method as claimed in claim 6 comprising, in said computer, adjusting said adjusted region size dependent on a change in a display scale for the medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data in said further display region.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8 comprising changing said display scale dependent on the medical diagnosis data or the information about said medical diagnosis data.

10. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising displaying at least three display regions at said display screen, with one of said three display regions having an associated category in which no medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data or information about medical diagnosis data exists, and, in said computer, selecting respective display regions for said at least three display regions with an adjusted region size.

11. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising allowing manual configuration, via a user interface of said computer, of the region size of at least one of said display regions.

12. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising readjusting the respective region sizes of at least two said display regions when respective categories are also readjusted.

13. A medical diagnosis computer comprising:

a processor;

a display monitor having a display screen in communication with said processor;

said processor being provided with at least two different categories of at least one of said medical diagnosis data and said information about medical diagnosis data in said medical diagnosis output;

said processor being configured to determine of displayed content for each of said at least two different categories;

said processor being configured to display, at said display screen, said displayed content of said at least two different categories in at least two display regions respectively associated with said at least two categories;

said processor being configured to receive an input that correlates multiple different categories with each other, among said at least two different categories;

said processor being configured to determine a region size for a single display region for said correlated multiple different categories dependent on respective sizes of the display regions for said displayed content of each of said correlated multiple categories, and changing said display screen to display the display content of all of said correlated multiple different categories in said single region; and

said processor being configured to simultaneously display said single display region at said display screen with the determined single region size.

14. A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said storage medium being loaded into a diagnosis computer having a display screen in communication therewith, and said programming instructions causing said computer to:

designate at least two different categories of at least one of said medical diagnosis data and said information about medical diagnosis data in said medical diagnosis output;

determine displayed content for each of said at least two different categories;

at said display screen, display said displayed content of said at least two different categories in at least two display regions respectively associated with said at least two categories;

receive an input that correlates multiple different categories with each other, among said at least two different categories;

determine a region size for a single display region for said correlated multiple different categories dependent on said displayed content of said correlated multiple categories, and update said region size for each of said two display regions as said displayed content changes; and

simultaneously display said single display region at said display screen with the determined single region size.