EU-TeleInViVo: an integrated portable telemedicine workstation featuring acquisition, processing and transmission over low-bandwidth lines of 3D ultrasound volume images

Kontaxakis, George; Walter, Stefan; Sakas, Georgios

doi:10.1109/itab.2000.892378

Cited by 38 publications

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“…Development of a high-performance remote diagnostic system, which enables an expert operator at the hospital to examine a patient at home, in an emergency vehicle, or in a remote clinic may have a very significant clinical added value. In this domain, existing works can be structured in two subdomains: works exclusively related to the telemedicine aspect, mainly image transmission and manipulation (see, for instance, LOGINAT [1] and TeleinVivo [2]), and works integrating robotic assistance to the expert operator. A subclass of systems allows automating an echographic examination using a robot (see [3]- [5]).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A new robot architecture for tele-echography

Vilchis

Troccaz

Cinquin

et al. 2003

IEEE Trans. Robot. Automat.

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“…Section III focuses on the slave robot mechanical architec-1 TER is a French acronym for robotic tele-echography. 2 Those rather close robot mechanical designs were performed in parallel, each group independently of the other. ture.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new robot architecture for tele-echography

Vilchis

Troccaz

Cinquin

et al. 2003

IEEE Trans. Robot. Automat.

142

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“…Simultaneous videoconference of two experts [2], one located at the patient side and the other at a distant location, has been used for distant diagnosis. Another system has been developed by TeleInVivo [3], in which the echography was performed by a clinical expert standing near to the patient and then the acquired ultrasound data was sent via satellite to a database station for processing and to reconstruct a three-dimensional (3-D) representation of anatomical region of interest. The OTELO system is designed to guarantee a reliable echographic diagnosis in an isolated site that is not served locally by medical experts.…”

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Mobile tele-echography: user interface design

Cañero¹,

Thomos

Triantafyllidis

et al. 2005

IEEE Trans. Inform. Technol. Biomed.

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Abstract-Ultrasound imaging allows the evaluation of the degree of emergency of a patient. However, in some instances, a well-trained sonographer is unavailable to perform such echography. To cope with this issue, the Mobile Tele-Echography Using an Ultralight Robot (OTELO) project aims to develop a fully integrated end-to-end mobile tele-echography system using an ultralight remote-controlled robot for population groups that are not served locally by medical experts. This paper focuses on the user interface of the OTELO system, consisting of the following parts: an ultrasound video transmission system providing real-time images of the scanned area, an audio/video conference to communicate with the paramedical assistant and with the patient, and a virtual-reality environment, providing visual and haptic feedback to the expert, while capturing the expert's hand movements. These movements are reproduced by the robot at the patient site while holding the ultrasound probe against the patient skin. In addition, the user interface includes an image processing facility for enhancing the received images and the possibility to include them into a database.

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“…Both experts could simultaneously discuss the obtained ultrasound image, and the expert who was distant from the patient could suggest a different probe orientation to his peer for better observation and analysis of the area of interest. In 2000, the European project TeleInVivo was developed [4], in which the echography was performed by a clinical expert standing next to the patient, then ultrasound data were sent via satellite to a data base station and processed to reconstruct a 3D representation of anatomical regions of interest [5].…”

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confidence: 99%