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

Volume

34

Issue

7

fYear

1996

fDate

7/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

27

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.526884

Filename

526884