Title :
Low cost wireless LAN based medical informatics system
Author :
Pedersen, P.C. ; Pahlavan, K. ; Auk, S. ; Sullivan, W. ; Nguyen, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a wireless LAN based medical informatics system for storing and retrieving medical images. The system captures, digitizes and compresses a selected image and places it in a GUI with patient data and comments entered either by keyboard or speech recognition system. A given image with comments is transmitted to a server computer by wireless LAN or wired LAN, and incorporated into the patient´s file. The system is intended for smaller hospitals or even field operations, and was designed with low cost components. The system is platform independent by using code written in Java. Physicians access from outside the hospital is via the Internet
Keywords :
Internet; Java; biomedical communication; medical information systems; wireless LAN; field operations; image compression; image digitization; low cost components; low cost wireless LAN based medical informatics system; medical images retrieval; medical images storage; patient´s file; physicians access via Internet; server computer; smaller hospitals; speech recognition system; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical informatics; Costs; Graphical user interfaces; Hospitals; Image coding; Image retrieval; Keyboards; Speech recognition; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804391
