Development of a field-deployable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system

Author

Sebastian, Dalys ; Pedersen, Peder C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

17-18 April 2004

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Portable ultrasound scanners are available today and have the potential for becoming very useful for emergency use. This paper presents a wearable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system, suitable for field-deployment purposes. The design of an appropriate speech recognition interface for controlling the scanner is also presented. The goal is to identify the ideal combination of noise canceling microphone and speech recognition engine to make the voice command detection reliable in noisy environments.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; speech recognition equipment; voice equipment; wearable computers; field-deployable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system; noise canceling microphone; speech recognition interface; voice command detection; Command and control systems; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Microphones; Noise cancellation; Portable computers; Speech recognition; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8285-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2004.1299986

Filename

1299986