Title :
A medical imaging diagnosis supporting method with sound effects
Author :
Kagawa, Toshinori ; Nishino, Hiroaki ; Tanoue, Shuichi ; Kiyosue, Hiro ; Mori, Hisamichi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Intell. Syst., Oita Univ., Oita, Japan
Abstract :
Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) has become one of the most important medical activities. Because of development of image processing, large amount of high-definition images are provided to investigate. Radiologists have to cost so much times and efforts to investigate these medical images. It is strongly required to reduce their burden without debasing the quality of imaging diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a method to generate sound information based on the image features and discuss about their effects of sounds for diagnosis. Sonification technique helps for attention rousing and the fatigue reduction for medical imaging diagnosis.
Keywords :
medical image processing; patient diagnosis; radiology; CAD; attention rousing; computer aided diagnosis; fatigue reduction; image features; medical imaging diagnosis supporting method; radiologists; sonification technique; sound effects; sound information; Feature extraction; Image sequences; Medical diagnostic imaging; Sonification; Medical imaging diagnosis; Sonification; image processing;
Conference_Titel :
Awareness Science and Technology and Ubi-Media Computing (iCAST-UMEDIA), 2013 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Aizuwakamatsu
DOI :
10.1109/ICAwST.2013.6765462