Utilizing Multimedia Technologies for Interactive Telesonography

This article deals with telemedicine and in particular with telesonography. Telesonography is real-time video collaboration for remote ultrasound examinations. We present here an interactive videoconferencing systemthat supports the various fields of ultrasound expertise, utilizing multimedia technologies. The work here focuses on integrating such a system in the demanding environment of ultrasound examinations, including integration of multimedia tools and support for a graphical user interface. We introduce an original logical model for telesonography and detail its architecture. Special emphasis is given to describing the multimedia technologies utilized in the architecture layers. This design was implemented in the TeleUS prototype, tested in a series of simulations and experiments, and proved adequate. We elaborate on this work and the conclusions reached, throughout the article. Keywords Telemedicine, teleradiology, telesonography, ultrasound, multimedia, videoconferencing, user...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: RIAO
• Authors: Taly Sharon, Ariel J. Frank
• Keywords: Multimedia Technologies, Remote Ultrasound Examinations, RIAO 2000, RIAO 2007, Ultrasound Examinations