TY - GEN
T1 - New tele-diagnostic model using volume sweep imaging for rural areas
AU - Ferrer, Jose
AU - Chaumont, Thomas
AU - Trujillo, Leslie
AU - Fernandez, Italo
AU - Guerrero, Jorge
AU - Stewart, Pilar
AU - Garra, Gail
AU - Campos, Maria Fernanda
AU - Garra, Katherine
AU - Stephens, Nicole
AU - Harley, Chere
AU - Jacobo, Sylvia
AU - Waks, Erin
AU - Miele, Frank
AU - Garra, Brian
AU - Castaneda, Benjamin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/13
Y1 - 2017/9/13
N2 - Advances in information and communications technologies provide a new opportunity to improve the access to healthcare in remote rural areas (RA) where there is a lack of infrastructure and medical experts. This paper implements a new model for tele-ultrasound (US) based on volumetric sweep imaging protocols specially designed for the acquisition of US. Non-physician health personnel from the RA are trained on the use of these protocols in a few days. The operator utilizes the medical box (MB), a specially designed telecommunication system, to guide, compress, encrypt and transmit the US sweeps through the cloud to the radiologist who performs the diagnosis remotely. The report is automatically sent back to the MB. The system was able to send US volumetric images with poor connectivity conditions in 6 minutes on average. These results of implementing this tele-ultrasound model in RAs are encouraging and support future validations.
AB - Advances in information and communications technologies provide a new opportunity to improve the access to healthcare in remote rural areas (RA) where there is a lack of infrastructure and medical experts. This paper implements a new model for tele-ultrasound (US) based on volumetric sweep imaging protocols specially designed for the acquisition of US. Non-physician health personnel from the RA are trained on the use of these protocols in a few days. The operator utilizes the medical box (MB), a specially designed telecommunication system, to guide, compress, encrypt and transmit the US sweeps through the cloud to the radiologist who performs the diagnosis remotely. The report is automatically sent back to the MB. The system was able to send US volumetric images with poor connectivity conditions in 6 minutes on average. These results of implementing this tele-ultrasound model in RAs are encouraging and support future validations.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037395
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037395
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 29060437
AN - SCOPUS:85032185091
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 2622
EP - 2625
BT - 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Y2 - 11 July 2017 through 15 July 2017
ER -