Title :
A Web-Based HD Telemedicine System for Remote Psychotherapy
Author :
Li, Ling ; Yang, Hua ; Su, Hang ; Cao, Yihua ; Zheng, Shibao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EE, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
With the accelerated global urbanization and life rhythm, an increasing physical and mental stress has been imposed, which led to a variety of problems that could not be ignored. This paper proposes a novel web-based telemedicine system that is focusing on psychotherapy. Considering the requirement of the psychological treatment, the function of system contains high definition video monitoring, two-way voice talkback, physiology parameters monitoring and data management based on database. The solution of the system is presented in the paper, including the hardware and software design. Some key issues in the system, including HD video processing, physiological parameters processing, are also discussed. Finally, the demonstration system and performance evaluation are presented.
Keywords :
Internet; high definition video; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; patient treatment; psychology; telemedicine; video signal processing; Web-Based high-definition telemedicine system; accelerated global urbanization; data management; database; hardware design; high definition video monitoring; life rhythm; mental stress; performance evaluation; physical stress; physiological parameters processing; physiology parameters monitoring; psychological treatment; remote psychotherapy; software design; two-way voice talkback; Biomedical monitoring; Databases; Decoding; High definition video; Medical services; Servers; Telemedicine; high difinition video; psychotherapy; telemedicine; web-based system;
Conference_Titel :
Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1827-4
DOI :
10.1109/CyberC.2011.94
