Medical image displaying method, program, and recording medium

• US 20050033147A1
• Filed: 07/15/2004
• Published: 02/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Kasai, Satoshi, Wada, Yasunori
• Application Number:
  US10/893,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20050033147A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/407
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/5247 combining images from an ionising-radiation diagnostic technique and a non-ionising radiation diagnostic technique, e.g. X-ray and ultrasound
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/003 Detecting lung or respiration noise
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/00 Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves imaging of objects using sonar G01S15/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4416 related to combined acquisition of different diagnostic modalities, e.g. combination of ultrasound and X-ray acquisitions
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30061 Lung
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection

Abstract

A medical image displaying method, for displaying a medical image to be read at the time of image diagnosis, comprising the steps of: a radiographed image data acquiring step for acquiring the radiographed image data of a predetermined part of an object to be radiographed; a biological sound-data detecting step for detecting the biological sound-data from the object; a sound source position specifying step for specifying the sound source position where the biological sound-data is detected from; and an image displaying step for displaying the medical image including a sound source position image related to the specified sound source position and the radiographed image related to the radiographed image data so that the sound source position image is superimposed on a part of the radiographed image corresponding with the specified sound source position.

Claims

1. A medical image displaying method, for displaying a medical image to be read at the time of image diagnosis, comprising the steps of:

a radiographed image data acquiring step for acquiring the radiographed image data of a predetermined part of an object to be radiographed;

a biological sound-data detecting step for detecting the biological sound-data from the object;

a sound source position specifying step for specifying the sound source position where the biological sound-data is detected from; and

an image displaying step for displaying the medical image including a sound source position image related to the specified sound source position and the radiographed image related to the radiographed image data so that the sound source position image is superimposed on a part of the radiographed image corresponding with the specified sound source position.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the radiographed image data and the biological sound-data is acquired via the data line.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the radiographed image data is the image data captured by at least one of X-rays, CT, MRI, magnetic instrumentation, biological electric signal, ultrasonic wave and light.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sound source position is specified according to the position of the microphone when collecting the biological sound.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the biological sound-data detecting step, the sound source position specifying step and the image displaying step are repeated alternately until an instruction for termination is inputted.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the image displaying step further comprises the steps of:

an image extracting step for extracting the image of a predetermined area including the sound source position from the radiographed image; and

an enlarging step for enlarging the extracted image to displaying the extracted image in an enlarged form.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the extracted image in an enlarged form is not superimposed on the area of the radiographed image including the sound source.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the extracted image in an enlarged form is according to the area of the radiographed image including the sound source.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the image displaying step further comprises the steps of:

an identifying step for identifying the type of the biological sound from the detected biological sound-data to display the sound source position based on the form of display corresponding to the identified type of the biological sound.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the sound source position in extracted image in an enlarged form is displayed with the type of the sound source.

11. The method of claim 1, when the detected biological sound-data is related to the data on the respiratory sound, the sound source position of the respiratory sound is adjusted in response to either expiration or inhalation in the image displaying step, and the sound source position subsequent to this adjustment is displayed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the information for identifying expiration from inhalation is included in the data on detected biological sound-data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the sound source position is adjusted based on the expansion and contraction of lungs at the time of respiration.

14. A medical image displaying method, for displaying a medical image to be read at the time of image diagnosis, comprising the steps of:

a radiographed image data acquiring step for acquiring the radiographed image data of a predetermined part of an object to be radiographed;

a biological sound-data detecting step for detecting the biological sound-data from the object;

a sound source position specifying step for specifying the sound source position where the biological sound-data is detected from; and

an image displaying step for displaying a sound source position image related to the specified sound source position and the radiographed image related to the radiographed image data side-by-side.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the radiographed image data and the biological sound-data is acquired via the data line.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the radiographed image data is the image data captured by at least one of X-rays, CT, MRI, magnetic instrumentation, biological electric signal, ultrasonic wave and light.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the sound source position is specified according to the position of the microphone when collecting the biological sound.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the biological sound-data detecting step, the sound source position specifying step and the image displaying step are repeated alternately until an instruction for termination is inputted.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the image displaying step further comprises the steps of:

an image extracting step for extracting the image of a predetermined area including the sound source position from the radiographed image; and

an enlarging step for enlarging the extracted image to displaying the extracted image in an enlarged form.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the extracted image in an enlarged form is not superimposed on the area of the radiographed image including the sound source.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the extracted image in an enlarged form is according to the area of the radiographed image including the sound source.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the image displaying step further comprises the steps of:

an identifying step for identifying the type of the biological sound from the detected biological sound-data to display the sound source position based on the form of display corresponding to the identified type of the biological sound.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the sound source position in extracted image in an enlarged form is displayed with the type of the sound source.

24. The method of claim 14, when the detected biological sound-data is related to the data on the respiratory sound, the sound source position of the respiratory sound is adjusted in response to either expiration or inhalation in the image displaying step, and the sound source position subsequent to this adjustment is displayed.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the information for identifying expiration from inhalation is included in the data on detected biological sound-data.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the sound source position is adjusted based on the expansion and contraction of lungs at the time of respiration.

27. A computer program to control a computer to function as a medical image display, wherein the medical image display comprises:

a radiographed image data acquiring function for acquiring the radiographed image data of a predetermined part of an object to be radiographed;

a biological sound-data detecting function for detecting the biological sound-data from the object;

a sound source position specifying function for specifying the sound source position where the biological sound-data is detected from; and

an image displaying function for displaying the medical image including a sound source position image related to the specified sound source position and the radiographed image related to the radiographed image data so that the sound source position image is superimposed on a part of the radiographed image corresponding with the specified sound source position.

28. A recording medium, which comprises a computer program of claim 27.

29. A computer program to control a computer to function as a medical image display, wherein the medical image display comprises:

a radiographed image data acquiring function for acquiring the radiographed image data of a predetermined part of an object to be radiographed;

a biological sound-data detecting function for detecting the biological sound-data from the object;

a sound source position specifying function for specifying the sound source position where the biological sound-data is detected from; and

an image displaying function for displaying a sound source position image related to the specified sound source position and the radiographed image related to the radiographed image data side-by-side.

30. A recording medium, which comprises a computer program of claim 29.