Title :
Remote expert consultation in radiology — The TELEMED project
Author :
Bartsch, Frank-Reinhard ; Gerneth, Marlene ; Schosser, Rudolf
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Exp. Surg., Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
fDate :
Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
Abstract :
A pan-European telemedicine environment has been established in the frame of the EC-sponsored TELEMED project. Eight European university hospitals have been interconnected using broadband networks from 2 Mbit/s to 140 Mbit/s. The application pilot is realized and evaluated in three steps of technical and functional integration, namely videoconference (VC), digital image communication (DIC), and access to an image reference data base. More than 120 VCs have been conducted to evaluate radiological applications. In the experiments a number of requirements such as a remotely adjustable iris of the document camera have been identified as indispensable for medical VC.
Keywords :
diagnostic expert systems; diagnostic radiography; medical diagnostic computing; medical expert systems; teleconferencing; telemedicine; video communication; visual databases; TELEMED Project; broadband networks; digital image communication; image reference data base; pan-European telemedicine; radiology; remote expert consultation; university hospitals; videoconference; Biomedical imaging; Europe; Image resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-0816-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5761764
