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

Volume

3

fYear

1992

fDate

Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992

Firstpage

1240

Lastpage

1241

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5761764

Filename

5761764