Title :
Human brain ultrasound-mediated diagnosis in emergency medicine and home health care
Author :
Yagi, Naomi ; Hata, Yuki ; Oshiro, Yuji ; Ishikawa, Takaaki
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes human brain ultrasound-mediated diagnosis in emergency medicine and home health care. The ultrasonic equipment has many advantages, for example, the very simple operation to touch to the body surface diagnosis enables real-time visual recognition for heart beat and unborn baby moving, and so on. The ultrasonic diagnosis is safety to human body and many repetitions. The goal of our research is the portable and real time brain diagnosis under the thick-skull. In our experiment, we employ two ultrasonic array probes with the center frequency of 1.0MHz and 0.5MHz. The choice of ultrasonic frequency is a trade-off between spatial resolution of the image and imaging depth. We perform the experiment with a cow scapula as a skull and a steel sulcus as a lateral cerebral sulcus. As the results, the synthesized image in Wavelet transform has higher efficiency than the other synthesizing on the images for the bone and the sulcus.
Keywords :
brain; emergency services; health care; image resolution; medical image processing; patient diagnosis; real-time systems; ultrasonic equipment; ultrasonic imaging; wavelet transforms; body surface diagnosis; emergency medicine; heart beat; home health care; human body; human brain ultrasound-mediated diagnosis; imaging depth; real time brain diagnosis; real-time visual recognition; spatial resolution; steel sulcus; thick-skull; ultrasonic array probes; ultrasonic equipment; ultrasonic frequency; unborn baby; wavelet transform; Wavelet transform; emergency medicine; home health care; human brain; ultrasound-mediated diagnosis;
Conference_Titel :
Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS), 2012 Joint 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2742-8
DOI :
10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2012.6505270