JPH04333974A - Medical image display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To immediately display a desired tomographic image on a screen by selecting the desired medical image from multi-images prepared by reducing the plural medical images of the same patient. CONSTITUTION:When an indicating instruction is inputted from a a keyboard 7, a patient list is displayed on a monitor 5. When an operator selects a patient name while observing this patient list, a search image corresponding to the patient is retrieved from the inside of a search image memory 4 and displayed on the monitor 5. In this case, the search image executes the multiple display of the plural reduced tomographic images into one image, and the operator selects the desired tomographic image by using a pointing device such as a mouse or the like while observing this search image. Then, the selected tomographic image is displayed on the monitor 5.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Purpose of the invention]

0001

[Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a medical image display device for displaying medical images taken by a CT scanner or the like on a screen.
In particular, the present invention relates to a technique that allows easy searching for a desired image.

0002

[Prior Art] Generally, when diagnosing a patient using a CT scanner, a plurality of tomographic images are taken in one diagnosis.
It is stored and saved in an image display device, etc. that has a recording function. At this time, images are stored in the image display device, categorized by each patient. Therefore, conventionally, when you want to display a saved tomographic image on the screen, first, as shown in FIG.
Select a patient from the patient list 11. Then, a list of images 12 of the selected patient, such as head tomograms, chest tomograms, etc., is displayed on the screen, so when the operator selects an image to be used for diagnosis, the selected tomogram 13 is displayed. The desired image is searched while updating this.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, with such conventional devices, images may have to be updated many times after selecting an image list until searching for a desired tomographic image. This has the disadvantage that it takes a long time to display the image.

[0004] The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and its purpose is to provide a medical image display device that can instantly display a desired tomographic image on a screen. It is in. [Structure of the invention]

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention classifies and stores photographed medical images for each patient, and displays the medical images of the patient by specifying the patient name. In a medical image display device, when registering a medical image,
The present invention is characterized by having means for creating a multi-image by reducing a plurality of medical images of the same patient and selecting a desired medical image from the multi-image.

[0006]

[Operation] With the above configuration, when searching for a desired image from registered medical images, first input a display command and a patient list will be displayed on the screen. Then, when you select a specific patient from the patient list, a multi-image in which multiple medical images of this patient are reduced will be displayed.
Thereafter, when the operator selects a desired medical image while viewing the multi-image, the selected image is displayed on the screen. This greatly simplifies the image search and significantly shortens the time it takes to display an image.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a medical image display device to which the present invention is applied and its peripheral equipment.

The image display device 1 shown in the figure is composed of a display control section 2, a patient name registration section 3, a search image memory 4, a monitor 5, and an image memory 6, and includes a keyboard 7 and a keyboard 7 as peripheral devices. An image input section 8 is provided.

The display control unit 2 registers the patient name input from the keyboard 7 in the patient name registration unit 3, stores the patient's tomographic image data input from the image input unit 8 in the image memory 6, and This tomographic image data is reduced to create a search image for each patient. The search image memory 4 stores the search image created by the display control section 2. Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

First, a tomographic image obtained as a result of diagnosis with a CT scanner is input into the image display device 1 from the image input section 8, and at the same time, personal data such as the patient's name is input from the keyboard 7. Then, the display control unit 2 stores the input tomographic image in the image memory 6, and when the input patient name is a new patient name, the display control unit 2 stores the input tomographic image in the image memory 6.
The patient's name is registered in , and the tomographic image is reduced to create a search image of the patient. In addition, if the patient name has already been registered, the search image of the patient is already stored in the search image memory 4, so the newly input tomographic image can be reduced to the already stored search image. Add to.

Next, in order to display the registered tomographic image, a display command is first inputted from the keyboard 7. As a result, the patient list 14 is displayed on the monitor 5 as shown in FIG. When the operator looks at this patient list 14 and selects a patient name, a search image 15 corresponding to this patient name is retrieved from the search image memory 4 and displayed on the monitor 5.

The search image 15 is a multi-display of a plurality of reduced tomographic images (16 in the figure) in one image, and the operator uses a pointing device such as a mouse while looking at the search image 15. (not shown) to select a desired tomographic image. As a result, the selected tomographic image 16 is displayed on the monitor 5 shown in FIG. In this manner, in this embodiment, a search image is created for each patient by reducing the input tomographic image, and the operator can select and display a desired image while looking at the search image. Therefore, it does not take a long time to display an image, and the desired image can be immediately displayed on the screen. Although the present embodiment describes a tomographic image taken with a CT scanner, the present invention is not limited to this and can be applied to other medical images.

[0013]

As explained above, in the present invention, a plurality of medical images of the same patient are reduced to create a multi-image, a desired medical image is selected from the multi-image, and the desired image is displayed on the screen. It is displayed. Therefore, as before,
There is no need to refresh the screen many times and search for images.
This has the effect of making it possible to search for images in a short time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a procedure for selecting an image.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional procedure for selecting an image.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Image display device 2 Display control section 3 Patient name registration department 4 Search image memory 15 Search image

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A medical image display device that classifies and stores photographed medical images for each patient and displays the medical images of the patient by specifying the patient name. A medical image display device comprising means for reducing a number of medical images to create a multi-image and selecting a desired medical image from the multi-image.