Advanced Medical Video Services through Context-Aware Medical Networks

Author

Doukas, C.N. ; Maglogiannis, I. ; Pliakas, T.

Author_Institution

Univ. of the Aegean, Samos

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

3074

Lastpage

3077

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a framework for advanced medical video delivery services, through network and patient-state awareness. Under this scope a context-aware medical networking platform is described. The developed platform enables proper medical video data coding and transmission according to both a) network availability and/or quality and b) patient status, optimizing thus network performance and telediagnosis. An evaluation platform has been developed based on scalable H.264 coding of medical videos. Corresponding results of video transmission over a WiMax network have proved the effectiveness and efficiency of the platform providing proper video content delivery.

Keywords

WiMax; patient diagnosis; telemedicine; video coding; video communication; WiMax network; context-aware medical networks; medical video data coding; medical video data transmission; medical video delivery services; patient status; patient-state awareness; scalable H.264 coding; telediagnosis; video transmission; Availability; Biomedical imaging; Context awareness; Context-aware services; Medical diagnostic imaging; Patient monitoring; Quality of service; Telemedicine; Video compression; WiMAX; Algorithms; Computer Communication Networks; Data Compression; Information Dissemination; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemedicine; Video Recording; Videoconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352977

Filename

4352977