WO2005071527A2 - Method and apparatus providing flexible measurement functionality for medical images - Google Patents
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- This invention pertains in general to the field of measurements related to images, and more particularly to the measurement of parameters in medical images, and even more particularly to the measurement of geometrical parameters, such as length and angles, related to objects being imaged on medical images.
- Medical workstations and applications offer several standard measurement tools for measuring distances, such as lengths or diameters, and for measuring angles.
- specialists in the field of orthopaedics use medical software packages to measure physical properties of the skeletal system, such as the lengths of bones and angles between bone axes etc.
- Distances are measured by drawing a line on an image, wherein the line is drawn between two points. A label near the line then displays the distance.
- Angles are measured by drawing two lines by means of three or four points on the image. A label displays the enclosed angle.
- graphics objects are used for measurements. These graphics objects comprise the already mentioned lines and angles, which are constructed from a sequence of points or alternatively from drawn curves.
- a line is constructed from a point by adding a point, an angle is constructed from a line by adding a third point and a curve or contour is formed from the angle by entering an additional sequence of points.
- the resulting distance or angle is automatically displayed and respectively either attached to the line (distance) or shown enclosed between two lines (angle).
- a further example is given in attorney reference document number NL 031038 EP, filing document number 0 310 3 244, wherein a user interactively constructs measuring tools starting with landmarks as basic building blocks. Subsequently an incremental graphics design approach is used for creating graphics objects and appertaining geometrical relational measurements.
- these measurements according to the state of the art are static and it is not possible to interact with these measurements, except in some cases for moving the location of the measurement label.
- the present invention overcomes the above-identified deficiencies in the art and solves at least the above-identified problems by providing a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium according to the appended patent claims.
- the general solution according to the invention is to use measurements for which their position on the image determines the measurement to be performed. More particularly, in order to provide the user with more control over what should actually be measured, measurement tools are made aware of the objects that they are measuring, of their position relative to these objects, and, in some cases, of their relative position on an image. By means of the invention, the flexibility and power of measurement tools is increased by making them objects themselves that can be interacted with by the user and by making the objects aware of their position relative to other graphical objects in the image.
- an apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable medium for smart measurements on medical images are disclosed.
- a method for processing user interaction in a medical environment with a medical image for producing measurement data related to graphics on the medical image is provided, wherein the graphics on the medical image comprises at least one graphic object and at least one dynamic measurement object based on said measurement data is removably attached to the at least one graphic object, i.e. the measurement object may be attached to graphics objects and then it may anytime be removed again or be transferred to another graphics object on the image.
- a medical examination apparatus adapted to implementing the above-mentioned method is provided.
- the apparatus comprises a cursor display means and user interaction means for a spatially displayed medical image on a graphics display means for displaying measurement data related to graphics objects on said image. Further, the apparatus comprises cursor actuating means with detection means for detecting positionings and actuations thereof, and measurement means for thereupon driving control of inherent measuring functionalities as being immediately based on graphics objects relative to the actuated position with respect to graphics objects having associated imaged medical objects.
- a computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for processing by a computer of a medical examination apparatus is provided.
- the computer program comprises a plurality of code segments for processing by a processor for perfor ing the above-mentioned method.
- the present invention has the advantage over the prior art that it enables a user of a medical imaging system to easily perform exact and accurate measurements more easily, and to display the results thereof in a reliable manner. Flexibility and power of measurement tools for medical images is improved by making the measurements objects themselves that can be interacted by the user, wherein these measurement objects also consider their position relative to the graphics objects they are connected to. The extraction of measurement information from a medical image is made significantly easier.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a medical imaging arrangement
- Fig. 2 is a schematic illustration of a line measurement principle according to the prior art
- Fig. 3 is a schematic illustration of an angle value measurement principle according to the prior art
- Figs. 4A and 4B are schematic illustrations showing the creation of a length measurement object
- Figs. 5A and 5B are schematic illustrations showing the principle of moving an angular measurement object between different quadrants of two intersecting lines
- Figs. 6A and 6B are schematic illustrations showing the movement of a dynamic length measurement of a diameter of a contour along the contour
- Figs. 1 is a schematic illustration of a medical imaging arrangement
- Fig. 2 is a schematic illustration of a line measurement principle according to the prior art
- Fig. 3 is a schematic illustration of an angle value measurement principle according to the prior art
- Figs. 4A and 4B are schematic illustrations showing the creation of a length measurement object
- Figs. 5A and 5B are schematic illustrations showing the principle of moving
- FIG. 7A and 7B are medical images with graphical line objects illustrating the principle of moving a length measurement object;
- Figs. 8A and 8B are medical images with graphical line objects illustrating a clinical example of moving an angular measurement object between different quadrants of two intersecting lines;
- Fig. 9 is a schematic flow chart illustrating an embodiment of the method according to the invention;
- Fig. 10 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention;
- Fig. 11 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the computer-readable medium according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows an exemplary medical imaging system 1 as pertaining to one or more conventional imaging technologies, such as CT, MRI, or other.
- the system 1 comprises at least one image monitor 10, a keyboard 11, a mouse 12, and a processor provided with appropriate storage 13. All these subsystems are interconnected through a suitable interconnection facility 14 that can be bus-based.
- I/O facility 15 interconnects to an outer world for receiving image data derived from the detection subsystem not shown for brevity, and for outputting of processed image data for long-term storage, hardcopying, and other.
- a user person may manipulate a medical image, shown on monitor 10, in various manners, for instance as described in NL 031038 and US-A-20020067340, through mouse and/or keyboard actuations.
- the present embodiment of method according to the invention is described hereinafter with reference to using simple mouse control in a system 1. Operation is foremostly controlled by a pointing device with at least one button, sometimes enhanced by accelerators and/or modifiers.
- the invention provides access to standard measurement operations, but does not rule out any particular measurement and may be adapted to specific requirements or specific measurements.
- the embodiment of the invention features the following non-limiting range of measurements: length, distance measurement diameter, perimeter, or alternatively such measurements in combination with pixel value profile measurements; angle measurements; as well as area, volume, grey value profiles (histogram), and other pixel value statistics measurements. These represent various operations on images without basically amending the image itself.
- the system 1 implementing an embodiment of the invention is provided with a mouse for controlling operations.
- a mouse is provided in virtually all systems running viewing applications, as a mouse is a very cost-effective device.
- other devices such as graphics tablets, trackballs, force feedback joysticks, touch-screens or touch-pens are feasible as well and the present invention is not limited to a mouse as an input device.
- Cursors or pointers
- touch screens and touch-pens the user physically points at the objects to select and thus cursor feedback is not necessary.
- the embodiment of the method according to the invention uses graphics objects created by incremental graphics, wherein the graphics objects are associated with measurement objects according to the invention.
- the graphics objects are either manually created, or alternatively the graphics objects are automatically created, e.g. by image recognition software identifying imaged objects, such as bones or organs, in medical images.
- the graphics objects are e.g. a landmark (point), a single line with or without open ends, two lines, by contours delimited regions etc.
- a landmark point
- One design principle of manually creating such graphics objects is discussed in US-A-20020067340. Another principle is discussed in NL 031038. When using a mouse, generally two basic mouse interactions are possible:
- Click-Move-Click the interaction is performed while no mouse button is pressed
- Press- Drag-Release the interaction is performed while a mouse button is pressed.
- the click-move-click style has the advantage that the actual mouse motion is performed without a mouse button being pressed, such enabling a finer control.
- the press-drag-release style has the advantage that fewer mouse clicks are required.
- both styles may be used in connection with the invention.
- all graphics measurement interactions are performed by moving a cursor to a position of interest on a medical image. Thereupon, a measurement object is activated for instance by clicking with a shift modifier.
- Fig. 2 illustrates a prior-art line measurement principle 2 to measure distances between pairs 21, 22 of image points on a medical image 24.
- the measurement value 23 displaying the length of the line 20 being drawn between the points 21 and 22 is displayed in a metric scale. In the example of Fig. 2 this value is 82mm.
- the value is alternatively displayed in pixel co-ordinate units.
- the measurement value is automatically displayed at a fixed position nearby the line 20 when drawing the line 20 from point 21 to point 22 by means of a mouse.
- this procedure involves a plurality of steps: 1. Move cursor to the position of the first point 21 in image 24. 2. Click with a shift modifier to mark the first point 21 in the image, whereupon the pixel-value and position of point 21 are displayed. 3. Move cursor to the position of the second point 22. The pixel-value and position display are removed. A line pullout from the first point 21 to the cursor and the pullout distance is displayed. The line pullout and distance updated as cursor is moved. 4. Click to mark the second point 22 on image 24. The line pullout and pullout distance display are removed.
- a smart distance measurement object docks to the selected line or set of points, or to the nearest line or set of points, i.e. all graphics objects that support a distance measurement.
- the medical image underlying the measurements is not shown in the remainder of the description.
- the interaction is as follows: 1. Select the line or set of points 2a. Click the distance measurement button or 2b. Click right and select a measurement (in this case distance) from the popup menu that presents all possible measurements with the current selection.
- the interaction is as follows: 1. Move cursor to a line point position, i.e. a point on or adjacent to line 40; A cursor 41 is displayed. 2. Click e.g. with shift modifier to execute measurement or click right and select distance; Then the distance measurement object 42 is displayed as a measurement label near the line and interaction is finished. The position of measurement object 42 is either automatically adjusted in relation to the graphics object to which the measurement is connected, i.e.
- Fig. 4B Another illustration that a smart distance measurement object docks to the nearest line or set of points, i.e. all graphics objects that support a distance measurement, is given in Figs. 7A and 7B.
- Figs. 7A and 7B are medical images with graphical line objects illustrating the principle of moving a length measurement object. The length measurement object shown in Fig.
- Fig. 7A that is connected to the left line is by means of cursored mouse interaction dragged to the right line, as indicated by the dotted circle line and the arrow in the Figure.
- Fig. 7B shows the situation after the drag.
- the length measurement object is switched from the first line (Fig. 7A) to the second line (Fig. 7B).
- the smart measurement objects of the invention are not simply labels showing the current measurement data of a fixed graphics object, as known from the prior art.
- the smart measurement objects are dynamically updated with the current measurement data of the graphics object that they currently are connected to. In the current example this is either the first or the second line. Of course two different smart measurement objects could also be connected to each line respectively.
- the flexible measurement tool disclosed in NL031038 describes a user interface tooling to build measurement graphics in an incremental way.
- the 'smart measurement objects' of this present application may be used inside this flexible measurement tool.
- the flexible measurement tool would then also comprise the smart measurement objects.
- the present invention may make use of the way in which the objects are created with a user interface for the 'selection' case, as described in NL031038. However, the 'nearest' case does not exist in NL031038. Smart objects may also be created initially unconnected, so that they are not incremental based on e.g.
- FIG. 3 shows a prior art measurement principle 3 for measuring angle values
- FIGs. 5A and 5B are schematic illustrations showing the principle of moving an angular measurement object between different quadrants of two intersecting lines according to an embodiment of the invention.
- a smart angle measurement object is positioned interactively with the mouse, or another control device, in one of the four quadrants formed by two lines.
- a different angle, and optionally a corresponding angle arc will be displayed.
- the position of the displayed angle object i.e. the position of the angle measurement value and the angle arc, if it exists, may be manually moved within the image by the operator in case these objects obstruct image parts, which are desired to be visible, wherein this moving action per se is already known, but not in combination with "smart" measurement objects.
- the smart angle measurement becomes an object itself, a flexible angle measurement object.
- the user picks up the label displaying the angle and places it in an appropriate position in one of the four quadrants formed by the intersecting lines.
- the angle measurement object displays then automatically the correct angle, at the desired position or at an automatically adjusted position, depending on user preferences.
- the interaction to create a smart angle measurement is as follows: 1. Select two lines 50 and 51 2a. Click the angle measurement button or 2b. Click right and select a measurement (in this case angle) from the popup menu that presents all possible measurements with the current selection; the angle measurement object 52 is displayed as an angle label in the selected quadrant and interaction is finished.
- the move interaction with reference to Figs.
- 5A and 5B is as follows: click on an existing smart angle measurement object 52 in the selected quadrant and drag object 52 to another quadrant of the same 50, 51, or a different set of intersecting lines as indicated by the arrow 53.
- the user drags the angle label (105.4 deg) from the lower right quadrant to the upper right quadrant, and the angle measurement object comprising the label and the arc will change accordingly to the new measurement value of angle measurement object 52 in the upper right quadrant (74.6 deg) of the intersecting lines 50, 51, and interaction is finished.
- the angle which the angle measurement object measures, depends on: (1) the two lines (or other objects supporting an angle measurement) it is connected to and, (2) its position on the image relative to the two objects it is connected to.
- the angle measurement object stays fixed to the two lines it is connected to.
- the angle measurement object (via its label) may be dragged to a different set of two lines, for example the two lines nearest to the current location of the label, and then dock to these lines. Subsequently, the angle measurement object may be dragged to the desired quadrant of the current set of lines.
- a measurement tool is defined as a graphic objects plus connected measurement objects, e.g. an entire angle measurement object.
- a measurement object is defined as the measurement plus the label.
- Figs. 8A and 8B A clinical example of the smart angle measurement tool is shown in Figs. 8A and 8B. The smart angle measurement object is illustrated in a clinically relevant situation. Figs.
- FIGS. 8A and 8B are medical images with graphical line objects illustrating a clinical example of moving an angular measurement object between different quadrants of two intersecting lines. More precisely, Figs. 8A and 8B illustrate the measurement of the CCD angle, i.e. the angle between the femur anatomical axis and the femoral neck line.
- the Femur anatomical axis is the line from the midpoint of the two trochanter points, i.e. the two points connected by the dashed line, to the centre of the knee.
- the Femoral neck line is the line from the centre of the femoral head circle to the midpoint of the two trochanter points.
- the CCD angle is clinically defined as shown in Fig. 8A.
- Figs. 6A and 6B illustrate another implementation of the smart measurement tools according to the invention.
- Figs. 6A and 6B are schematic illustrations showing the movement of a dynamic diameter measurement along a contour 60.
- a diameter measurement object 61 is shown.
- the diameter measurement object is visualised as a dotted line 62 between two points on the border of a contour 60.
- the diameter measurement object is moved, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 6A, its endpoints automatically snap to the nearest point on the closest contour.
- the diameter measurement object line 62 When the diameter measurement object line 62 is dragged downwards, its endpoints 'snap' to the border and the measurement updates, as illustrated in Fig. 6B. Alternatively, when the diameter measurement is dragged between two different contours, both endpoints will each 'snap' to a different contour, thus creating an inter-contour distance measurement.
- the pixel- value profile of the image along the line may be displayed in a chart (not shown). Copying of measurement tools, such as described above, is also possible.
- Fig. 9 is a schematic flow chart illustrating an embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- Fig. 9 shows a method 90 of processing 91 cursored user interaction with a spatially displayed medical image for producing graphics related measurement data on the medical image.
- the medical image comprises at least one graphics object and dynamic measurement objects are removably attached 92 to at least one graphics object.
- Fig. 10 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention.
- the medical examination apparatus 100 is arranged for implementing the above-mentioned method according to the invention.
- the medical examination apparatus 100 is for example a CT acquisition apparatus, an MR acquisition apparatus, a conventional X- ray apparatus, or an other medical image acquisition apparatus.
- the medical examination apparatus 100 comprises computer readable memories 101, 102, 106, 107, and 108.
- the computer readable memory 101 comprises computer readable code designed to display a cursor.
- the computer readable memory 102 comprises computer readable code designed for user interaction with a spatially displayed medical image 104 on a graphics display like a Cathode Ray Tube monitor (CRT monitor) 103 for displaying measurement data related to graphics objects 105 on said image 104.
- the computer readable memory 107 comprises computer readable code designed to store cursor actuations.
- the computer readable memory 106 comprises computer readable code designed to detect positionings and actuations based upon the stored cursor actuations.
- the computer readable memory 108 comprises computer readable code designed to thereupon driving control of inherent measuring functionalities as being immediately based on graphics objects 105 relative to the actuated position with respect to graphics objects having associated imaged medical objects.
- the computer readable memories communicate with a microprocessor through a software bus that is designed to transfer data from, to and between the memories, the microprocessor and the graphics display.
- Fig. 1 1 is a schematic illustration of an embodiment of the computer-readable medium according to the invention.
- the computer program 110 comprises a plurality of code segments 1 1 1, 112 for processing by a processor 113 performing the above-mentioned method, wherein a first code segment 111 is provided for processing user interaction in a medical environment with a medical image for producing measurement data related to graphics on the medical image, wherein the medical image comprises at least one graphic object, and a second code segment 112 for removably attaching at least one dynamic measurement objects to said graphic object.
- a first code segment 111 is provided for processing user interaction in a medical environment with a medical image for producing measurement data related to graphics on the medical image, wherein the medical image comprises at least one graphic object, and a second code segment 112 for removably attaching at least one dynamic measurement objects to said graphic object.
- Applications and use of the above described interactive measurements according to the invention are various and include for instance all medical viewing workstations, PACS systems, and all types of clinical applications.
- the invention is suitable to be used in combination with images from all modalities. The present invention has been described above with reference to specific
- Measurement types that may benefit from docking 'in a smart way' are length, distance, diameter, perimeter, area, volume, grey value profiles (histogram), and more.
- a 'smart length' measurement object may dock to any graphical object in the image that supports measuring its length.
- a 'smart distance' measurement may dock to the two nearest objects supporting a distance measurement.
- a 'smart diameter' measurement may dock to contours, circles, spheres, tubes (like vessels, trachea%) etc.
- the system 1 implementing an embodiment of the invention is provided with a mouse for controlling operations.
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