Multimedia experience in telemedicine: A strategy for recovering live surgery transmissions

Video-based applications are increasingly popular. An interesting area is Telemedicine or eHealth applications, such as clinical sessions, second medical opinion, interactive training or surgery transmission. This scenario is featured by handle multiple video streams. In addition, other objects, as clinical images, animations, video-based exams can be used to enrich the multimedia experience. Thus, this paper approaches a strategy to record and recover the multimedia experience in telemedicine systems. The proposed strategy allows specifying multiple data streams and their interactions and enables to reproduce a multimedia experience and its plurality. The proposed strategy was applied in Arthron (a tool to manage remote and multiple streams in Telemedicine) for recording live surgery transmissions. We also discuss results of experiments held in the Lauro Wanderley Academic Hospital, Brazil.