Ultrasound Machine for Distributed Diagnosis and Home Use

Author

Yoo, Yang Mo ; Schneider, Fabio K. ; Agarwal, Anup ; Fukuoka, Tetsuya ; Koh, Liang Mong ; Kim, Yongmin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Bioeng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

2-4 April 2006

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

66

Abstract

In this paper, we present a home ultrasound machine that could be used in a distributed diagnosis and home healthcare (D₂H₂) setting. It will enable remote screening, diagnosis and monitoring of the patient by addressing limitations of the current practice and lead to improved healthcare delivery. For the home ultrasound machine, we have developed a reconfigurable and programmable architecture and efficient front-end algorithms to significantly reduce the hardware complexity while providing improved flexibility to adapt to different clinical applications. Several technical and non-technical challenges for realization of the home ultrasound machine setting are also discussed

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; health care; medical diagnostic computing; telemedicine; distributed diagnosis; front-end algorithms; hardware complexity reduction; healthcare delivery; home healthcare; home ultrasound machine; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; programmable architecture; reconfigurable architecture; remote screening; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Biosensors; Computed tomography; Costs; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2. 1st Transdisciplinary Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0058-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624798

Filename

1624798