BACKGROUND As the increasing adoption of information technology continues to offer better distant medical services, the distribution of, and remote access to digital medical images over public networks continues to grow significantly. Such use of medical images raises serious concerns for their continuous security protection, which digital watermarking has shown great potential to address. ME...

Emergency radiology has evolved into a distinct subspecialty requiring specialized skillset to make timely and accurate diagnosis of acutely critically ill or traumatized patients. The need for emergency odd hour coverage fuelled the growth internal external teleradiology “nighthawk” services meet increasing demands from all stakeholders support changing trends in medicine trauma surgery inclin...

With the widespread use of the Internet, standard browsers are widely available in radiological and clinical departments. So far the limited speed of the Internet has made teleradiology via the Internet too slow for practical use, but many hospital LANs are now connected to the World Wide Web through high speed access. The new JavaScript technology has made it possible to view examinations with...

New technologies in multimedia and communication fields have introduced new ways to transfer and save the medical image data through open networks, which has introduced new risks of inappropriate use of medical information. Medical images are highly sensitive hence secured transmission and reception of data is needed with minimal distortion. Medical image security plays an important role in the...

This paper introduces the teleradiology system, MEDICUS, which has been developed at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany. The system is designed to work on ISDN lines as well as in a local area network. The global software architecture is explained in the article. Special attention has been given to the design of the user interface and dat...

T elemedicine aims to improve access to medical care and to reduce costs through the use of telecommunication and data-networking technologies. The hypermedia structure of the Web in particular offers the possibility for global distribution of medical databases, such as those for medical imaging and patient records. However, the Web does not currently support all of the necessary requirements f...

DIPE is a distributed environment that provides image processing services over integrated teleradiology services networks. DIPE integrates existing and new image processing software and employs sophisticated execution scheduling mechanisms for the efficient management of computational resources within a distributed environment. It can also be extended to provide various added-value services, su...

Broadly, telemedicine refers to the use of information and telecommunication technologies to distribute information and/or expertise necessary for healthcare service provision, collaboration and/or delivery among geographically separated participants, including physicians and patients. Evaluation of telemedicine systems success or effectiveness is a fundamental challenge to healthcare organizat...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine services have been successfully used in areas where there are adequate infrastructures such as reliable power and communication lines. However, despite the increasing number of merchants and seafarers, maritime and Arctic telemedicine have had limited success. This might be linked with various factors such as lack of good infrastructure, lack of trained onboard personnel...