An integrated medical workstation with a multimodal user interface, knowledge-based user support, and multimedia documents

Author

Kuhn, K. ; Doster, W. ; Roesner, D. ; Kottma, P. ; Swobodnik, W. ; Ditschuneit, H.

Author_Institution

Ulm Univ. Hospital, West Germany

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Jun 1990

Firstpage

469

Lastpage

476

Abstract

An integrated workstation developed for use in clinical medicine is described. The specific application domain is gastroenterology with endoscopic, ultrasonic, and laboratory units. The following modules for data collection and management during ultrasound examinations have been implemented and tested: a multimodal user interface with speech and symbol recognition to reduce complexity in human-machine interaction, knowledge-based components to support the user and to structure dialogues dynamically, and techniques for handling multimedia documents that consist of images, text, structured text, graphics, and digitized speech. The system was implemented using networked frontend and backend workstations under UNIX

Keywords

expert systems; medical computing; multimedia systems; natural languages; user interfaces; workstations; ES; UNIX; backend workstations; clinical medicine; data collection; digitized speech; gastroenterology; graphics; human-machine interaction; images; integrated medical workstation; knowledge-based components; knowledge-based user support; multimedia documents; multimodal user interface; networked frontend; speech recognition; structured text; symbol recognition; text; ultrasound examinations; Biomedical imaging; Image recognition; Knowledge management; Laboratories; Speech recognition; Testing; Text recognition; Ultrasonic imaging; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1990., Proceedings of Third Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chapel Hill, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9040-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMSYS.1990.109435

Filename

109435