Medical image diagnostic apparatus and method of perusing medical images
View Patent ↗An ultrasound diagnostic system 200 is provided with operation input device 6 configured to set up examination information of examinee P, operation acknowledgement device 110 configured to acknowledge operation signals received from operation input device 6 , operation log discriminator configured to issue time when an operation log ID is acceptable, image information memory 130 configured to store examination image data, index generator configured to read examination image data from image information memory 130 and monitor 5 configured to display the examination image data. Image information memory 130 further stores search information at a predetermined period of time after the time issued by operation log ID discriminator 120 together with examination image data at such a predetermined period of time after the time while index generator 140 reads first examination image data from image information memory 130 and makes monitor 5 display the same.
1. A medical image diagnostic apparatus for imaging an examinee for examination and for recording and reproducing obtained image data of a moving image, comprising:
an operation input device configured to input and set up operation items for performing during the imaging, the operation input device further setting up distinctive operation items of the moving image selected from the operation items, in advance of examination, the distinctive operation items including setting at least one of an examination item, an image data generation mode, and an image detector type;
a controller configured to cause a memory to store distinctive image data and corresponding thumbnail examination image data of the moving image being produced by each operation of the distinctive operation items, the controller further causing the memory to store search information being added to each of the distinctive image data of the moving image during the examination; and
a monitor configured to display, by designating the search information corresponding to each of the distinctive operation items, each image of the thumbnail examination image data corresponding to the designated search information.
2. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the search information is added to a first frame of the distinctive image data.
3. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the images with the search information added are changed to the thumbnail examination image data and displayed.
4. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an information relative to time is added to the distinctive image data and stored in the memory, the information relative to time corresponding to operation input to the operation input device.
5. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the information relative to time is at a predetermined period of time after an operation signal is provided from the operation input device.
6. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the information relative to time is represented by a frame number of the distinctive image data.
7. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the distinctive operation item corresponds to an operation log ID.
8. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 7 , further comprising an operation log ID discriminator, wherein the operation log ID is registered in advance, and the operation log ID discriminator judges whether the operation log ID corresponding to the operation input is consistent with the registered operation log ID.
9. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the operation log ID corresponds to image data generation modes and types of an image detector.
10. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an index generator, wherein an information relative to examination is added to the image distinctive data and stored in the memory, and the index generator reads out the information relative to examination from the memory and prepares an index to make the monitor display the index.
11. A medical image diagnostic apparatus for imaging an examinee for examination and for recording and reproducing obtained image data of a moving image, comprising:
an interface circuit configured to receive inputs of operation items;
an operation input acknowledgement device configured to convert the inputs into operation log IDs;
an operation log ID discriminator configured to judge whether the operation log IDs are consistent with registered log IDs respectively and to issue each request for storing related information including information relative to time when each of the operation log IDs is provided to the operation input acknowledgement device, examinee ID at the time, examination information and thumbnail examination image data at the time during examination;
a controller configured to cause an image information memory to store distinctive examination image data of the moving image corresponding to each of the storing requests, the controller causing the image information memory to store the related information in association with the distinctive examination image data during the examination;
an image perusal controller configured to control reproducing the distinctive examination image data;
an index generator configured to receive a reproducing request from the image perusal controller and to generate a chapter index in accordance with the related information stored in the image information memory; and
a monitor configured to display each image of the thumbnail examination image data corresponding to each of the inputted operation items and to display the chapter index.
12. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the information relative to time is information at a predetermined period of time after an operation signal is provided from the operation input acknowledgement device.
13. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the information relative to time is represented by a frame number of the examination image data.
14. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the interface circuit registers log IDs corresponding to the operation log IDs, as the registered log IDs, in the operation log ID discriminator.
15. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the index generator reads out the examination information from the image information memory and makes the monitor display examination start time, examinee ID, and examination items.
16. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the index generator makes the monitor display each of the times when each of the operation log IDs is provided to the operation input acknowledgement device, the thumbnail examination image data, and the chapter index including the examination information.
17. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the operation log IDs correspond to image data generation modes and types of an image detector.
18. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the image information memory stores each of times when the examination image data, the thumbnail examination image data at the time, and the examination information associated with the examination image data at the time are respectively provided.
19. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the related information stored in the image information memory is associated with frame ID information, examination information in the frame ID information, and thumbnail examination image data of the distinctive examination image data.
20. The medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the search information includes information relative to time during the examination, examination information, and the thumbnail examination image data.