Title :
Development of a field-deployable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system
Author :
Sebastian, Dalys ; Pedersen, Peder C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Abstract :
Portable ultrasound scanners are available today and have the potential for becoming very useful for emergency use. This paper presents a wearable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system, suitable for field-deployment purposes. The design of an appropriate speech recognition interface for controlling the scanner is also presented. The goal is to identify the ideal combination of noise canceling microphone and speech recognition engine to make the voice command detection reliable in noisy environments.
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; speech recognition equipment; voice equipment; wearable computers; field-deployable voice-activated ultrasound scanner system; noise canceling microphone; speech recognition interface; voice command detection; Command and control systems; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Microphones; Noise cancellation; Portable computers; Speech recognition; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic transducers; Working environment noise;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8285-4
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.2004.1299986
