System for manipulation, modification and editing of images via remote device

• US 8,774,560 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2009
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (State University System of Florida)
• Original Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (State University System of Florida)
• Inventors: Sugaya, Kiminobu, Gandhi, Balaji, Yellanki, Srikanth
• Primary Examiner(s): TSAI, TSUNG YIN
• Application Number:
  US12/611,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,707 Days
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20108 Interactive selection of 2D slice in a 3D data set
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30016 Brain
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing remotely accessible medical image data. The system and method allows for increased accuracy and semi-quantitative or fully quantitative data from images by enabling the remote user to select regions of interest on a compressed image, and then conducting quantitative analysis on original images at a central location.

Claims

1. A method of providing to remote users a quantitative analysis of image data comprising:

providing an image database that is accessible remotely via an internet connection by a remote user, wherein said image database comprises a plurality of non-compressed 2D images from an anatomical location;

displaying to said remote user a 3D reconstruction of the anatomical location from the plurality of non-compressed 2D images, the 3D reconstruction having a lower resolution than the plurality of non-compressed 2D images;

presenting to said remote user the option of rotating of said 3D reconstruction and virtual-sectioning of said 3D reconstruction in any plane;

presenting to said remote user the option of selecting a region of interest in said 3D reconstruction;

providing to said remote user a 2D image of interest corresponding to a virtual-section of said 3D reconstruction at a selected plane, said 2D image having a higher resolution than the 3D reconstruction;

presenting to said remote user the option of performing one or more image processing techniques on said 2D image of interest;

calculating pixel value statistics on said 2D image of interest based on at least one of the plurality of non-compressed 2D images; and

providing to said remote user said pixel value statistics;

wherein said image database comprises an archive of 2D images with multiple levels of resolution, and.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said non-compressed images in said image database comprise TIFF images.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said anatomical location is a brain.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing said remote user an option of annotating upon a selected image and displaying said annotating to a second remote user.

5. A remotely interactive medical image management and viewing system comprising:

a database comprising a plurality of non-compressed 2D medical images;

a processor; and

a computer program product for assisting interactivity between said system and a remote user via an internet connection, said computer program product comprising;

a computer readable first program code module for causing said processor to display to said remote user a selection of low-resolution images of said plurality of non-compressed images;

a computer readable second program code module for causing said processor to present to said remote user an option to select at least one of said selection of low-resolution images;

a computer readable third program code module for causing said processor to display to said remote user a compressed image corresponding to a low-resolution image selected by said remote user;

a computer readable fourth program code module for causing said processor to present an option of selecting a region of interest of said selected compressed image; and

a computer readable fifth program code module for causing said processor to present an option to said remote user of annotating said selected compressed image;

a computer readable sixth program code module for causing said processor to split a compressed image into tiles;

a computer readable seventh program code module for causing said processor to present an additional number of tiles over a network to said remote user as a greater degree of resolution is desired; and

a computer readable eighth program code module for causing said processor to create a 3D reconstruction of at least a subset of said 2D medical images;

a computer readable ninth program code module for causing said 3D reconstruction to rotate upon input from said remote user and an tenth program code module for causing said processor to create a virtual-section of said 3D reconstruction in any plane as inputted by said remote user, wherein said virtual-section comprises a 2D image having a higher resolution than said 3D reconstruction.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said plurality of non-compressed images comprises a stack of TIFF images.

7. The system of claim 6 further comprising a computer readable eleventh program code module for causing said processor to identify a TIFF image from said TIFF stack corresponding to a low-resolution image selected by said remote user.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein said compressed image is a JPEG image.

9. The system of claim 5 further comprising a computer readable twelfth program code module for causing said processor to present an option to zoom into said region of interest.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising a computer readable thirteenth program code module for causing said processor to download tiles corresponding to said region of interest at a selected zoom level.

11. A remotely interactive medical image management and viewing system comprising:

a database comprising a plurality of non-compressed 2D medical images;

a processor; and

a computer program product for assisting interactivity between said system and a remote user via an internet connection, said computer program product comprising

a computer readable first program code module for causing said processor to create a 3D preview image based on at least a subset of said 2D medical images but having a lower resolution than base non-compressed 2D medical images;

a computer readable second program code module for causing said processor to display to said remote user said 3D preview image;

a computer readable third program module for causing said 3D preview image to rotate upon input from said remote user; and

a computer readable fourth program code module for causing said processor to create a virtual-section of said 3D preview image in any plane as selected by said remote user, wherein said virtual-section comprises a 2D image having a higher resolution than said 3D preview image.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising a computer readable fifth program code module for causing said processor to present an option to said remote user of annotating said virtual-section.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising a computer readable sixth program code module for causing said processor to display said annotating to another remote user.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein said non-compressed 2D medical images are TIFF images.