A Teledentistry system for the second opinion

Author

Gambino, Orazio ; Lima, Fausto ; Pirrone, Roberto ; Ardizzone, Edoardo ; Campisi, Giuseppina ; di Fede, Olga

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. Manage., Mech. Eng. & Comput. Sci, Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1378

Lastpage

1381

Abstract

In this paper we present a Teledentistry system aimed to the Second Opinion task. It make use of a particular camera called intra-oral camera, also called dental camera, in order to perform the photo shooting and real-time video of the inner part of the mouth. The pictures acquired by the Operator with such a device are sent to the Oral Medicine Expert (OME) by means of a current File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service and the real-time video is channeled into a video streaming thanks to the VideoLan client/server (VLC) application. It is composed by a HTML5 web-pages generated by PHP and allows to perform the Second Opinion both when Operator and OME are logged and when one of them is offline.

Keywords

dentistry; medical computing; telemedicine; transport protocols; video cameras; video streaming; FTP service; HTML5 web-page; OME; VLC; VideoLan client/server; dental camera; file transfer protocol; intra-oral camera; oral medicine expert; photo shooting; real-time video; second opinion task; teledentistry system; video streaming; Cameras; Dentistry; Lesions; Medical diagnostic imaging; Streaming media; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943856

Filename

6943856