| 摘要 |
<p>A monitoring system is presented for use in managing non-invasive inspection of a region of interest on a patient's body to locate a predetermined abnormality. The monitoring system is connectable to a measurement unit which performs said non- invasive inspection. The monitoring system comprises a memory utility, and a processor utility. The memory utility serves for storing reference data comprising: at least one reference response of a body corresponding to a normal condition with respect to at least one abnormality to be detected; and at least one predetermined deviation function corresponding to at least one abnormality to be detected. The processor utility is preprogrammed for carrying out the following: The processing utility analyzes first measured data including at least two measured data pieces from at least two first spaced-apart measurement locations respectively within a first sub-region of the region of interest, and determining for each of the first locations a deviation parameter corresponding to deviation of the measured data piece from the reference response. The processing utility utilizes the predetermined deviation function to determine, for each of said at least two of the measured data pieces of the first measured data, a relation between the deviation parameter and a predetermined threshold value corresponding to a condition of said predetermined abnormality, and generate a corresponding control signal and communicate it to the measurement unit. The control signal is indicative of a first scan direction towards at least one second location to be measured in the region of interest where a degree of said predetermined abnormality is higher than in said at least two first locations. This provides a closed loop control of a scan direction towards one or more successive locations in the region of interest with higher degree of abnormality based on the analysis of the measured data from preceding locations, and enabling the inspection to proceed through locations with increasing degree of abnormality while avoiding measurements at locations in the region of interest where a degree of abnormality is relatively low</p> |
