KR20140029615A - Apparatus and method for transmitting gastrointestinal endoscopy image - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for transmitting a digestive endoscope image. Digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus according to the present invention, compressed image file generation unit for generating a compressed image file by compressing the image taken by the digestive endoscope inspection equipment; A converting unit converting the compressed image file to conform to the DICOM standard and generating a DICOM file; And a transmission unit for transmitting the DICOM file to the medical image server storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard.

Description

Apparatus and method for transmitting gastrointestinal endoscopy image}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting a gastroscope endoscope, in particular, by compressing the image taken by the gastroscope endoscopy equipment to convert to meet the medical digital imaging and communication (DICOM) standard medical image server By establishing a medical image server that stores not only still images but also high-quality videos at low cost, and automatically generates electronically documented digestive endoscopy results reports, reports can be conveniently generated and statistics generated by accumulating statistics The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting an endoscope image for digestive organs that can be used as data and research data.

A device for capturing, storing, and transmitting an image output from a fire endoscopy apparatus is called a digestive endoscope image transmission device or a digestive endoscope gateway.

The conventional fire extinguisher endoscope gateway only supported a low quality still image capturing function. Since the conventional gastrointestinal endoscope gateway is a still image, only limited information can be provided, and the image quality is not very good due to the limitation of the capacity of the storage medium, which does not satisfy the needs of both doctors and patients.

However, due to the development of high-definition imaging equipment, the conventional low-quality image digestive endoscopy equipment is expected to be replaced with high-quality equipment, but these high-quality images are usually large and can be a big burden in a server storing medical images. This is a problem that leads to an increase in server maintenance costs.

In addition, in the case of an endoscopy using a conventional gastrointestinal endoscope gateway, a report on the test result was recorded by a doctor directly. As such, reports manually recorded by doctors were cumbersome to be electronically documented in order to utilize statistical and research data.

An object of the present invention, by compressing the image taken by the gastroscope endoscopy equipment is converted to meet the DICOM standard and transmitted to the medical image server, to build a medical image server that stores not only still images but also high-quality video at low cost, By automatically generating an electronically documented digestive endoscopy report, it is possible to provide a digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus and method that can conveniently generate a report and accumulate the generated report to be used as statistical data and research data.

An apparatus for transmitting digestive endoscope images according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a compressed image file generation unit configured to generate a compressed image file by compressing an image photographed by a digestive endoscope inspection apparatus; A converting unit converting the compressed image file to conform to the DICOM standard and generating a DICOM file; And a transmission unit for transmitting the DICOM file to the medical image server storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard.

The compressed image file generator may generate a compressed image file including a full-HD (high definition) image obtained by compressing an image photographed by the digestive endoscopy apparatus using an MPEG4 codec.

The digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus may further include a display unit for searching and displaying a list of DICOM files stored in the medical image server, receiving a user's request, and playing the DICOM file according to the request.

The display unit may display medical information related to the gastrointestinal internal organs, and receive medical information related to the digestive organs corresponding to the DICOM file among the displayed digestive internal medicine related medical information from the user.

The digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus may further include a report generation unit configured to generate a digestive endoscopy report based on the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file and the DICOM file.

Digestive endoscope image transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the compressed image file generating unit compresses the image taken by the digestive endoscope inspection equipment to generate a compressed image file; A converting unit converting the compressed image file to conform to the DICOM standard to generate a DICOM file; And transmitting, by the transmission unit, the DICOM file to the medical image server storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard.

The generating of the compressed image file may include: generating, by the compressed image file generating unit, a compressed image file including a full-HD image obtained by compressing an image captured by the digestive endoscopy apparatus using an MPEG4 codec. Can be.

The digestive endoscope image transmission method, the display unit to display a list of DICOM files stored in the medical image server to display; And receiving the user's request and playing the DICOM file according to the request.

The digestive endoscopic image transmission method, the display unit to display the medical information associated with the digestive organs; And receiving, from the user, the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file among the displayed digestive medicine related medical information.

The digestive endoscope image transmission method may further include generating, by the report generator, a digestive endoscopy report based on the digestive medicine-related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file and the DICOM file.

According to an aspect of the present invention, by compressing the image taken by the gastrointestinal endoscopy equipment is converted to meet the DICOM standard and transmitted to the medical image server, to build a medical image server for storing high-quality video as well as still images at low cost By automatically generating an electronically documented digestive endoscopy report, the present invention can provide a digestive endoscope image transmission device and method that can conveniently generate a report and accumulate the generated report to be used as statistical data and research data. .

1 is a view schematically showing a fire extinguisher endoscope image transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a digestive endoscope image transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, a repeated description, a known function that may obscure the gist of the present invention, and a detailed description of the configuration will be omitted. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more fully describe the present invention to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the shapes and sizes of the elements in the drawings and the like can be exaggerated for clarity.

1 is a view schematically showing a fire extinguisher endoscope image transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the fire extinguisher endoscope image transmission device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a compressed image file generation unit 110, a conversion unit 120, a transmission unit 130, a display unit 140, and Report generation unit 150 may be configured to include. The apparatus 100 for transmitting a fire extinguisher endoscope shown in FIG. 1 is according to an exemplary embodiment, and the blocks shown in FIG. 1 are not essential components, and in other embodiments, some blocks may be added, changed, or deleted. have.

The compressed image file generation unit 110 generates a compressed image file by compressing an image photographed by the digestive endoscopy apparatus 10. In one embodiment, the compressed image file generation unit 110 is a compressed image file including a full-HD (High Definition) image of the image captured by the digestive endoscope inspection equipment 10 by using the MPEG4 codec Can be generated. In detail, the compressed image file generator 110 may support full-HD image capturing using a high resolution video capture card. In order to effectively compress such a large full-HD image file, the compressed image file generator 110 may support the MPEG4 codec. Since a video compression codec such as the MPEG4 codec has a high compression rate, when the compressed video file generator 110 uses the MPEG4 codec, even a high quality image using a high resolution video capture card may be lost in a conventional compression codec with almost no loss of image quality. In comparison, it can compress up to very small capacity. The full-HD image generated by the compressed image file generator 110 may include a full-HD still image or a full-HD video.

The converter 120 converts the compressed image file generated by the compressed image file generator 110 to comply with the DICOM standard to generate a DICOM file. This is to ensure that even after the DICOM file is transmitted to the medical imaging server 20, it can be reproduced without failure in any equipment conforming to the DICOM standard.

The transmitter 130 transmits the DICOM file to the medical image server 20 storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard. In one embodiment, the medical image server 20 may be configured separately from the conventional picture archiving communication system (PACS) server 30. This is because the PACS server has a lot of medical information in addition to the medical image, so if the medical image is also stored, it can be a great burden on the server. Since the medical image server 20 only needs to store the medical image, the medical image server 20 may be configured at a lower cost and a lower cost than the PACS server.

The display unit 140 inquires and displays a list of DICOM files stored in the medical image server 20, receives a user's request, and plays the DICOM file according to the request. The display unit 140 may provide a list of DICOM files in a text list format or a preview format, so that a user may select a DICOM file to open. If the user selects one of the DICOM files displayed in the list, the selected DICOM file can be played.

The display unit 140 may display medical information related to the gastrointestinal internal organs and receive input from the user of medical information related to the digestive organs corresponding to the DICOM file among the displayed medical information related to the digestive organs.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy, unlike other functional tests, is directly examined by a doctor, and various procedures (such as removal of tablets) can be performed simultaneously depending on the patient's condition. Therefore, various treatment / materials, procedure reports, etc. as well as inspection reading reports should be recorded after inspection. To this end, the display unit 140 may display medical information related to the gastroenterology in a questionnaire form to a user who uses the digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus 100, that is, a doctor. In addition, the doctor may check and input the information corresponding to the DICOM file while viewing the medical information related to the digestive medicine in questionnaire format.

In addition, the report generator 150 generates a digestive endoscopic examination report based on the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file and the DICOM file. After the report generating unit 150 generates the digestive endoscope test result report as described above, the digestive endoscope test result report is transmitted to the PACS server 30 through the transmission unit 130 or displayed through the display unit 140. can do.

Conventional digestive endoscope image transmission devices do not provide electronic documentation aptitude for digestive endoscopy results reports. However, according to the digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, since it is possible to directly enter the digestive endoscopy test report after the endoscopy and the input reports can be transmitted to the PACS server 30, digestive endoscopy It can maximize work efficiency and can be used as statistical data and research data.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a digestive endoscope image transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, when the digestive endoscope image transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention is started, the compressed image file generation unit compresses the image photographed by the digestive endoscope inspection apparatus to generate a compressed image file (S201). The converter converts the compressed image file to conform to the DICOM standard to generate a DICOM file (S202). At this time, in step S201, the compressed image file generator may generate a compressed image file including a full-HD image obtained by compressing an image photographed by the digestive endoscopy apparatus using an MPEG4 codec.

After the DICOM file is generated (S202), the transmitter transmits the DICOM file to the medical image server storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard (S203). After the DICOM file is transmitted to the medical image server, the display unit may search for and display a list of DICOM files stored in the medical image server, receive a user request, and play the DICOM file according to the request.

When the DICOM file is transmitted to the medical image server (S203), the display unit displays medical information related to the gastrointestinal internal medicine (S204), and the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file is displayed from the user. It receives an input (S205). The report generator generates a digestive endoscopy report based on the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file and the DICOM file (S206).

In the method of transmitting the digestive endoscope image illustrated in FIG. 2, the process of transmitting the digestive endoscope image is performed similarly to the apparatus for transmitting the digestive endoscope according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention illustrated in FIG. 1. As it is applied as is, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 2, as in FIG. 1, each step of the flowchart shown in FIG. 2 is not a necessary step in all steps, and some steps may be added, changed or deleted in another embodiment.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be taken as limitations. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

100 fire extinguisher endoscope video transmission device
110 Compressed video file generator
120 conversion
130 transmitter
140 report generator
150 display

Claims (5)

Compressed image file generation unit for generating a compressed image file by compressing the image taken by the digestive endoscope inspection equipment;
A converter configured to convert the compressed image file to conform to a digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard to generate a DICOM file; And
And a transmitter configured to transmit the DICOM file to a medical image server storing the digestive endoscope medical image according to the DICOM standard. The method of claim 1,
The compressed image file generator,
And a compressed image file including a full-HD (high definition) image obtained by compressing an image photographed by the digestive endoscopy apparatus using an MPEG4 codec. The method of claim 1,
And a display unit for searching and displaying a list of DICOM files stored in the medical image server, receiving a user's request, and playing a DICOM file according to the request. The method of claim 3,
The display unit includes:
A digestive endoscope image transmission apparatus, characterized by displaying medical information related to the digestive organs and receiving medical information related to the digestive organs corresponding to the DICOM file among the displayed digestive internal medicine related medical information. 5. The method of claim 4,
And a report generation unit configured to generate a digestive endoscope examination result report based on the digestive medicine related medical information corresponding to the DICOM file and the DICOM file.

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