Dynamic montage reconstruction

• US 10,579,903 B1
• Filed: 07/06/2015
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Merative US LP
• Original Assignee: Merge Healthcare Solutions Incorporated (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Reicher, Murray A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Jonathan S
• Application Number:
  US14/792,210
• Time in Patent Office: 1,702 Days
• Field of Search: 382128
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/21 Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/003 Reconstruction from projections, e.g. tomography
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Provided herein are various systems and methods for storing, accessing, and utilizing information regarding medical image montages. Further provided herein are various systems and methods of using an exam type data structure to map exam types in various formats to master exam types that may be associated with customized rules or other features. Further provided herein are various systems and methods for customizing display of items associated with medical exams based on one or more categories (for example) associated with respective items.

Claims

1. A computer displaying images of a medical exam, the computer comprising:

one or more hardware computer processors configured with computer-executable instructions in order to cause the one or more hardware computer processors to;

determine one or more environment characteristics of a first display environment in which one or more of the images of the medical exam are to be displayed;

in response to the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment matching one or more environment characteristics of a second display environment associated with a first, stored composite montage image, display the first, stored composite montage image; and

in response to the one or more environment characteristics of the second display environment not matching the one or more environment characteristics of the second display environment associated with the first, stored composite montage image;

determine, based on the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment, one or more display characteristics associated with the medical exam, wherein the one or more display characteristics include an indication of a number of rows and a number of columns of images of the medical exam that are to be concurrently displayed in the first display environment;

determine one or more additional display characteristics regarding display settings for individual images in the medical exam;

generate a second composite montage image in accordance with the one or more display characteristics and the one or more additional display characteristics; and

display the second composite montage image in the first display environment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the one or more hardware computer processors are further configured with computer-executable instructions in order to cause the one or more hardware computer processors to;

store a combined snapshot of the second composite montage image for access and display on other computers in a display environment having one or more environment characteristics matching the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment.

3. The computer of claim 1, wherein the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment indicate at least one of:

an aspect ratio of the display environment and a resolution of the first display environment.

4. The computer of claim 1, wherein determining, based on the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment, the one or more display characteristics associated with the medical exam comprises:

selecting the one or more display characteristics from a plurality of display characteristics associated with the medical exam.

5. The computer of claim 1, wherein determining, based on the one or more environment characteristics of the first display environment, the one or more display characteristics associated with the medical exam comprises:

determining, based on the one or more environmental characteristics of the first display environment, a resolution or aspect ratio associated with the one or more display characteristics of the first display environment for displaying at least one image of the medical exam.

6. The computer of claim 1, wherein

the one or more hardware computer processors are further configured with computer-executable instructions in order to cause the one or more hardware computer processors to:

in response to an input associated with a first image of the first, stored composite montage image of the medical exam that is displayed in the first display environment;

determine an image series of the medical exam associated with the first image;

select, based on the input, another image from the image series; and

display the other image in place of the first image in the first display environment within the first, stored composite montage image.

7. The computer of claim 1, wherein the one or more display characteristics are further associated with a user of the first display environment.

8. The computer of claim 1, wherein the first, stored composite montage image includes a plurality of images of the medical exam, and wherein the plurality of images of the medical exam include images from a plurality of image series of the medical exam.

9. The computer of claim 1, wherein the first, stored composite montage image includes a plurality of images of the medical exam, and wherein the plurality of images of the medical exam include at least two of a same image from the medical exam but with differing view settings.

10. The computer of claim 1, wherein the one or more additional display characteristics include at least one selected from a group consisting of magnification, brightness, centering, cropping, filters, annotations, and insets.

11. A server comprising:

one or more hardware computer processors configured with computer-executable instructions in order to cause the one or more hardware computer processors to;

store a first montage image generated for a first display environment having a first set of environment characteristics, the first montage image associated with a medical exam;

receive a request to display a composite montage image associated with the medical exam in a second display environment having a second set of environment characteristics;

in response to the second set of environment characteristics matching the first set of environment characteristics, retrieve the stored first montage image as a response to the request; and

in response to the second set of environment characteristics not matching the first set of environment characteristics, retrieve, as a response to the request, one or more display characteristics based on the second set of environment characteristics, wherein the one or more display characteristics include an indication of a number of rows and a number of columns of images of the medical exam that are to be concurrently displayed in the second display environment, and one or more additional display characteristics regarding display settings for individual images in the medical exam, the one or more display characteristics and the additional display characteristics usable to recreate the first composite montage image for display within the second display environment.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the second set of environment characteristics indicate at least one of an aspect ratio of the second display environment and a resolution of the second display environment.

13. The server of claim 11, wherein the first composite montage image includes a plurality of images of the medical exam, and wherein the plurality of images of the medical exam include images from a plurality of image series of the medical exam.