Generation of high-quality images for telemedicine and tele-pathology efforts

Author

Guo, Qinglian ; Ohsuga, Mieko ; Muroi, K.

Author_Institution

Wellness Bus. Dev. Group, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1288

Abstract

Telemedicine and tele-pathology denote delivering medical diagnoses and health care to distant patients. It is a primary requirement that doctors should be provided with sufficiently high-quality patient images for carrying out effective diagnoses. As an alternative method to meet this requirement, we chose to cover the entire field of patient site with several frames of image, and to automatically compose a wide field of view and high resolution image of patient from these frames by using the computer techniques for generating digital image mosaics

Keywords

computer graphics; image registration; image resolution; image restoration; medical image processing; telemedicine; video signal processing; digital image mosaics; distant patients; health care; high resolution image; high-quality images generation; high-quality patient images; image blending; image distortion correction; image normalisation; medical diagnoses; registration algorithm; several frames of image; telemedicine; telepathology; wide field of view; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Hospitals; Image generation; Image resolution; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Microscopy; Pathology; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747113

Filename

747113