Medical signal transmission and analysis based on the Internet

Author

Zhongming, Ma ; Fatt, Ng Nai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Singapore Polytech., Singapore

fYear

2003

fDate

24-26 April 2003

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

77

Abstract

We have developed a Web based system for patients to send their ECG data to a Web server. The portable recorder is a microcontroller based system, which can record a few hours of ECG waveform. The device can connect to the Internet by hooking up with any normal modem. An ECG analysis software residing on the server performs the basic analysis, the results and raw data are then routed to doctors for further analysis and verification. The final diagnosis conclusion is posted on the Website for the patients to retrieve through a secure login. If there is any urgent situation, the patients will be alerted by SMS to their mobile phone.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; data analysis; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; portable instruments; recorders; telemedicine; ECG analysis software; ECG data; Internet; SMS; Web based system; Web server; bioinformatics; e-health; home health care; medical signal analysis; medical signal transmission; microcontroller based system; mobile phone; portable recorder; secure login; text message; Electrocardiography; Internet; Medical diagnostic imaging; Microcontrollers; Mobile handsets; Modems; Performance analysis; Signal analysis; Software performance; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7667-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222444

Filename

1222444