Medical image processing system
A server including an image storage, an image processor, a progress managing unit, and a UI controller. The image storage stores medical images of different body regions of a subject. The image processor receives requests related to each medical image from one of multiple clients and executes processing of the medical images. The progress managing unit creates progress information on the processing of each medical image based on the stage of the processing performed by the image processor on each of the multiple medical images, and centrally manages progress information for multiple medical images. In accordance with the processing stage indicated by the progress information, the UI controller generates display screen data which presents the processing status of the medical images of the corresponding body regions on multiple screen regions corresponding to multiple body regions and transmits the display screen data to either one of the multiple clients.
1. A medical image processing system comprising:
a plurality of clients;
a server; and
a medical imaging device to capture medical images of a subject; wherein
the clients are each configured to request corresponding one of a plurality of image processors of the server to perform image processing on at least one of a plurality of the medical images of different body regions of a single subject, and
the server comprises:
an image storage to store the medical images of the subject captured by the medical imaging device;
the image processors each corresponding to one of the clients, the image processors configured to, in response to a request regarding a medical image of a body region from their respective clients, perform processing on the medical image;
a processor configured to:
associate the medical images to store the medical images in the image storage in a readable/writable manner in advance;
when a specific one of the image processors receives a request regarding a specific medical image from a corresponding one of the clients, read the specific medical image out of the image storage to transmit the specific medical image to the specific image processor so that processing required by the corresponding one of the client is performed on the specific medical image, and after the processing, write the specific medical image into the image storage;
based on a process of writing to and reading from the image storage, determine one of a plurality of stages to which progress of the processing on the specific medical image belongs, and associate the one of the stages with the specific image processor and the specific medical image to thereby create progress information, the stages including a stage where the specific medical image is unprocessed, a stage where the specific medical image is being processed, and a stage where the processing is completed; and
a UI controller configured to display a plurality of screen regions each corresponding to one of the body regions, to create display screen data for visually providing the stages of the progress of the processing in one of the screen regions corresponding to the specific medical image, and to send the display screen data to the corresponding one of the clients.
2. The medical image processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
when the processor causes another image processor to perform processing on the specific medical image, which has been processed by the specific image processor, in response to a request for processing regarding the specific medical image from another client, the processor creates progress information that indicates progress of the processing performed by the other image processor based on a process of writing to and reading from the image storage for the processing by the other image processor, and
the UI controller is configured to create display screen data indicating the progress of the processing performed by each of the image processors in a list based on the progress information for the specific image processor and the other image processor, and send the display screen data to the corresponding one of the clients.
3. The medical image processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor is configured to manage processing history of each of the medical images from when the medical image is stored first until after the medical image is processed in response to a request in association with the medical image, and
in response to a designation of one of the screen regions, the UI controller creates history screen data based on the processing history associated with a medical image of a body region corresponding to the screen region, and sends the history screen data to the corresponding one of the clients.