Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is the recent trend for localized and personalized medical services. For that purpose, several tele-medicine architectures and WBAN frameworks for patient monitoring have been proposed. This paper presents a new medical protocol MESETP (Medical Services Transport Protocol), that underlies data delivery for both real-time and non real-time medical services. Fur...

We study the fundamental limits of decoding delay in providing reliable communication for real-time applications. After presenting a simple example to illustrate the difficulties in using traditional block codes, we propose a new communication model to study decoding delay for streaming broadcast channels. We prove a coding theorem establishing that, for certain collections of channel ensembles...

This paper presents the methodology of defining the confidence levels for computer-aided medical diagnosis according to the patient-doctor visiting. It is a part of on-going research in the Medical Knowledge Technology (MKT) system. With the expansion of medical knowledge into the Internet by various groups of Tele-medicine researchers, the suggestion of confidence levels for medical diagnosis ...

Multi-spectral imaging techniques are expected to solve the difficulties of cross-environment color reproduction for objects such as products for e-commerce or designing process, and human skin for tele-medicine. However, color is just one attribute for appearance of the objects. Other attributes such as glossiness, graininess and translucency should be also considered for practical crossenviro...

The Computer Aided Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System (CAMDASS) is a tool that is aimed at providing medical guidance and automated diagnostic support to non-experts for performing medical procedures, especially motivated by astronauts on long term spaceflights beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) where restricted communication makes tele-medicine solutions impractical. The paper introduces the motiv...

Applying four analytic lenses (consumption, communication, community, and responsibility) and three forms of agency (objectivation, activation, and engagement) this paper develops a conceptual platform for the analysis of the impact of health-care ICTs. It is argued that a closer study of applications within tele-medicine, health informatics, and e-health needs to take into account (changes in)...

This study demonstrated a method to train medical students at Hanoi Medical School in airway management from Omaha, Nebraska, using tele-mentoring techniques. Correct placement of the endotracheal tube was documented by tele-broncoscopy following intubation. This technology may increase medical training capabilities in remote or developing areas of the world. Medical care delivery could be perf...

This paper discusses the state of the art in networking, and explains the way existing networks can support tele-education applications. Chapter 1 identifies which tele-education parameters have the biggest impact upon the underlying network, and proposes a classification of teleeducation applications. Chapter 2 discusses the various networks that are used for tele-education purposes: Local Are...

BACKGROUND The use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POC US) in paediatrics is increasing. This study investigated the diagnostic accuracy of POC US in children accessing the emergency department (ED) when performed by paediatricians under the remote guidance of radiologists (TELE POC). METHODS Children aged 0 to 18 years accessing the ED of a third level research hospital with eight possible...

Remote user authentication is critical requirement in Telecare Medicine Information System (TMIS) to protect the patient personal details, security and integrity of the critical medical records of the patient as the patient data is transmitted over insecure public communication channel called Internet. In 2013, Yan proposed a biometric based remote user authentication scheme and claimed that hi...