An interactive multimedia satellite telemedicine service

Author

Pierucci, Laura ; Re, Enrico Del

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Florence Univ., Italy

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

2000

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

83

Abstract

We present a telemedicine application, called the Medical Environment for Diagnostic Images (MEDI), that provides remote medical care services while taking advantage of the broadcast and multicast capabilities and the wide-band capacity of satellite systems. We developed the application in an open environment (Java) using a client-server architecture based on TCP/IP. We evaluated the performance of the application on satellite connections

Keywords

Java; biomedical communication; client-server systems; health care; interactive systems; medical image processing; multicast communication; multimedia systems; performance evaluation; satellite communication; telemedicine; transport protocols; visual communication; Java; MEDI; Medical Environment for Diagnostic Images; TCP/IP; broadcasting; client-server architecture; interactive multimedia satellite telemedicine service; multicasting; open environment; performance evaluation; remote medical care services; satellite connections; wide-band capacity; Bit error rate; Costs; Electronic mail; Intersymbol interference; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite ground stations; Telemedicine; Teleworking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.848435

Filename

848435