Telemedicine for evaluation of brain function by a metacomputer

Author

Mizuno-Matsumoto, Yuko ; Date, Susumu ; Tabuchi, Yuji ; Tamura, Shinichi ; Sato, Yoshinobu ; Zoroofi, Reza A. ; Shimojo, Shinji ; Kadobayashi, Youki ; Tatsumi, Haruyuki ; Nogawa, Hiroki ; Shinosaki, Kazuhiro ; Takeda, Masatoshi ; Inouye, Tsuyoshi ; Miyaha

Author_Institution

Div. of Functional Diagnostic Imaging, Osaka Univ. Med. Sch., Japan

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

172

Abstract

A method of evaluating brain function using the metacomputer concept of the Globus system combined with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is described. The proposed method has the ability to exploit various geographically distributed resources and parallel computing linked to a high-technology medical instrumentation system (magnetoencephalography) to analyze the functional state of the brain. It is envisaged that the method will lead to the realization of an efficient telemedicine system for health care.

Keywords

application program interfaces; distributed programming; magnetoencephalography; medical computing; message passing; telemedicine; Globus system; MEG; MPI; Message Passing Interface; brain function evaluation; geographically distributed resources; health care; high-technology medical instrumentation system; magnetoencephalography; metacomputer; parallel computing; telemedicine system; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Magnetic analysis; Magnetoencephalography; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Positron emission tomography; Senior citizens; Telemedicine; Brain; Computers; Electroencephalography; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Telemedicine; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4233.845210

Filename

845210