Title :
Multimedia systems for telemedicine and their communications requirements
Author :
Cabral, James E., Jr. ; Kim, Yongmin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
fDate :
7/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Telemedicine is much more than just teleconferencing. ISDN could be used in some low-end applications, but many telemedicine applications will require the higher bandwidth and guaranteed qualities of service supported by ATM. We discuss the design of multimedia systems for telemedicine. First, various applications of telemedicine are presented, and their multimedia and communications requirements are discussed. A telemedicine prototype is then presented, each of its components discussed, and a potential future telemedicine system is shown
Keywords :
ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; medical image processing; medicine; multimedia communication; ATM; ISDN; bandwidth; medical image processing; multimedia systems design; quality of service; teleconferencing; telemedicine applications; telemedicine prototype; telemedicine system; Bandwidth; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Hospitals; Information systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Multimedia systems; Picture archiving and communication systems; Telecommunication computing; Telemedicine;
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
