Ophthalmic microscope with improved documentation capability
An ophthalmic microscope assembly has an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, a voice recorder with speech-to-text conversion, a measurement unit for carrying out measurements, and a report generator for generating reports. Depending on the physical input, such as the voice data from the voice recorder, the image data from the camera, the data measured by the measurement unit, as well as the current operating settings of the microscope, report generator automatically generates a report. Depending on the same data, a guide automatically generates guidance to the user and/or performs measurements and takes images. A microphone is placed below the ocular or on the frame of a display of the microscope.
1 . An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
a processing unit,
an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, and
a voice recorder,
wherein the microscope sends operating data indicative of one or more operating parameters of the microscope to the processing unit, and
wherein the processing unit associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the operating data by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images.
2 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises:
a patient's headrest;
a microscope housing including microscope optics and the camera;
a translational stage between the headrest and the microscope housing;
wherein the translational stage is adapted to displace the microscope housing with respect to the headrest along
a horizontal direction Z defining a distance between the headrest and the microscope housing, and
a horizontal direction X perpendicular to direction Z; and
a pivotal connection mounted to the translational stage, wherein the pivotal connection is rotates the microscope housing with respect to the translational stage about a vertical pivot axis;
wherein the operating data is indicative of at least one of:
an X-offset along the horizontal direction X, or
a pivot angle about the pivot axis.
3 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises an illumination source projecting light onto a patient's eye, wherein the operating data is indicative of at least one illumination parameter of the illumination source.
4 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 3 , wherein the illumination parameter is at least one of:
a brightness of the illumination source,
a width of a field illuminated by the illumination source on a patient's eye,
a spectral composition of light generated by the illumination source, or
a pivotal angle of the light source.
5 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit comprises a speech recognition unit that recognizes keywords and/or key phrases in the voice data.
6 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing the voice data and/or the image data of a current session and/or the current session itself to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories.
7 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope sends operating data indicative of one or more operating parameters of the microscope to the processing unit, and
the processing unit
associates the operating data with at least one of the voice data and the image data and/or
associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the operating data, and
wherein the categorizer selects the subset of categories as a function of the operating data.
8 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 7 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises:
a patient's headrest;
a microscope housing including microscope optics and the camera;
a translational stage between the headrest and the microscope housing, wherein the translational stage displaces the microscope housing with respect to the headrest along
a horizontal direction Z defining a distance between the headrest and the microscope housing, and
a horizontal direction X perpendicular to direction Z, and a pivotal connection mounted to the translational stage, wherein the pivotal connection rotates the microscope housing with respect to the translational stage about a vertical pivot axis;
wherein the operating data is indicative of at least one of:
an X-offset along the horizontal direction X or
a pivot angle about the pivot axis, and
wherein the categories are at least indicative of which eye is being measured, and the categorizer determines, as a function of the X-offset, if a left eye or a right eye is
being measured.
9 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 6 , wherein the processing unit comprises a speech recognition unit recognizing at least one of keywords and key phrases in the voice data, and
wherein the categorizer selects the subset of categories as a function of the recognized keywords and/or key phrases.
10 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 6 , wherein the categorizer comprises an image classifier attributing images from the image data to one of several image types, and wherein the categorizer selects the subset of categories as a function of the attributed image types.
11 . An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
a processing unit;
an ophthalmic microscope with a camera; and
a voice recorder;
wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the ophthalmic microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing a current session to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories,
wherein at least some of the categories are guided categories, and
wherein the processing unit comprises a list storing, for each guided category, a list of required measurements, and
the ophthalmic microscope assembly comprises a guide that tests if the current session is categorized as a guided category and, if yes
displays guidance on a display and/or
automatically executes at least part of the required measurements.
12 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 11 , wherein the stored list comprises for at least some of the guided categories, a list of required images, if the current session is categorized as a guided category by the guide, the guide checks if the categorized guided category comprises a list of required images and if yes:
displays, on the display, instructions indicative of the list of required images and/or
compares the categories of recorded images in the image data against the list of required images.
13 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit comprises:
a storage storing a plurality of report templates, and
a report generator generating the report as a function of one of the report templates.
14 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 13 , wherein
the report templates comprise placement instructions indicative of a position of a text sequence of the voice data and/or an image of the image data in the report, wherein the placement information comprises category information, and
the report generator uses the placement information for placing a given voice sequence or image in the report depending on a category attributed to the given voice sequence or image mages and on the category information.
15 . An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
a processing unit;
an ophthalmic microscope with a camera, and
a voice recorder;
wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing the voice data and/or the image data of a current session and/or the current session itself to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories,
wherein the processing unit comprises a storage storing a plurality of report templates, and a report generator generating the report as a function of a first template of the report templates,
wherein, based on the subset, the report generator
selects the template and/or
displays one or more templates for selection of the first template by the user.
16 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 6 , wherein the categorizer further comprises a category selector receiving manual input for attributing one or more categories to a dataset and/or to a current session.
17 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , further comprising a measurement unit measuring at least one eye parameter of an eye being investigated and generating measurement data indicative of the eye parameter,
wherein the processing unit associates, in the report, the measurement data with the voice data and/or the image data and/or
wherein the processing unit associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the measurement data.
18 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 17 , wherein said processing unit comprises a categorizer attributing the voice data and/or the image data of a current session and/or the current session itself to a subset of a plurality of predefined categories and
wherein the categorizer selects the subset of categories as a function of the measurement data.
19 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of any of claim 17 , wherein the eye parameter comprises at least one of
keratometry data of the eye,
a cornea thickness of the eye,
a parameter indicative of a presence of a cataract in the eye,
a pupil diameter of the eye, and/or
an iris diameter of the eye,
tear break-up time of the eye,
anterior chamber depth,
dimension and opacity of lesions and ulcers,
anterior chamber angle,
graded corneal staining,
eyelid position.
20 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 1 , wherein the voice recorder comprises at least one microphone and wherein the microphone is arranged on the ophthalmic microscope.
21 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 20 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises a pivotal microscope housing, and wherein the microphone is arranged on the pivotal microscope housing.
22 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 21 , wherein the microscope comprises an ocular on the microscope housing, and the microphone is arranged below the ocular.
23 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 21 , wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises a display, with the pivotal microscope housing being pivotal in respect to the display, and wherein the microphone is arranged on a frame of the display ( 52 ).
24 . An ophthalmic microscope assembly comprising:
a processing unit;
an ophthalmic microscope with a camera; and
a voice recorder;
wherein the processing unit associates, in a report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope by generating a mapping between parts of the voice data and images,
wherein the microscope sends operating data indicative of one or more operating parameters of the microscope to the processing unit, and
wherein the processing unit
associates the operating data with at least one of the voice data and the image data and/or
associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the operating data,
wherein the ophthalmic microscope comprises:
a patient's headrest;
a microscope housing including microscope optics and the camera;
a translational stage between the headrest and the microscope housing, wherein the translational stage is adapted to displace the microscope housing with respect to the headrest along
a horizontal direction Z defining a distance between the headrest and the ophthalmic microscope housing,
by an X-offset along a horizontal direction X perpendicular to direction Z, and
a pivotal connection mounted to the translational stage, wherein the pivotal connection provides for a rotation of the microscope housing with respect to the translational stage by a pivot angle about a vertical pivot axis, wherein the operating data is indicative of at least one of:
the X-offset along the horizontal direction X, or
the pivot angle about the pivot axis, and
wherein the ophthalmic microscope assembly comprises at least one of:
a detector detecting the X-offset,
a detector detecting the pivot angle.
25 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 5 , wherein the processing unit associates, in the report, voice data from the voice recorder and image data from the microscope as a function of the keywords and/or key phrases.
26 . The ophthalmic microscope assembly of claim 6 , wherein the categories are indicative of at least one of the following:
a part of an eye is being measured,
which eye is being measured,
what kind of pathology is being observed,
what kind of measurement is being carried out, or
what is the purpose of a current session.
27 . The microscope ophthalmic assembly of claim 13 , wherein the report generator
selects the one of the report templates as a function of category data attributed to the current session and/or
selects the one of the report templates as a function of user input.