Due to major advances in the information technology, telemedicine applications are ready for a widespread use. Nonetheless, to allow their diffusion in National Health Care Systems (NHCSs) specific methodologies of health technology assessment (HTA) should be used to assess the standardization, the overall quality, the interoperability, the addressing to legal, economic and cost benefit aspects...

We have developed a planner for redundant manipula-tors that is fast, eeective and versatile, based on the idea of treating each link of a rigid-linked robot as if it were slightly exible and under the innuence of a potential eld. We describe the extensions to the basic method that allow it to plan paths for manipulators with revolute joints (linear and spherical joints having been covered in a...

This “Late Breaking Hot Topic Paper” introduces and tracks the progress of OceanDIVER, a project to develop a tele-immersive collaboratory that integrates archived oceanographic data with simulation and real-time data gathered from autonomous underwater vehicles. Specifically this paper describes the work in building CAVE6D, a tool for collaboratively visualizing environmental data in CAVEs, Im...

AIMS Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) is known to cause a variety of human diseases including acute and chronic myocarditis as well as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). However, the mechanisms by which CVB3 causes diseases are not well understood. METHODS AND RESULTS Studies identifying protein-protein interactions during CVB3 infection are useful in delineating the pathogenesis of acute or chronic myoca...

We are rapidly moving toward a world where personal networked video cameras will be ubiquitous. Already, cameraequipped cell phones are becoming commonplace. Imagine being able to tap into all of these real-time video feeds to remotely explore the world live. We introduce RealityFlythrough, a tele-reality/telepresence system that will make this vision possible. By situating live 2d images in a ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the sonographic parameters related to morphological characteristics of pelvic adnexal masses by obtaining two-dimensional images by an observer presence, forwarded electronically (via tele-ultrasound) in static and dynamic modes observers do not face (distance) for comparative analyzes inter intraobserver and to the validation of a second opinion. METHODS From March to Aug...

INTRODUCTION As competition for physicians intensifies in the USA, rural areas are at a disadvantage due to challenges unique to rural medical practice. Telemedicine improves access to care not otherwise available in rural settings. Previous studies have found that telemedicine also has positive effects on the work environment, suggesting that telemedicine may improve rural physician recruitmen...

Mrs. Claudia Nieva T. +34 932 275 400 (e 4001) [email protected] The Challenge A "Biofeedback for pelvic floor training" fully functional and competitive has been validated by clinical staff specialized in urology and tested on voluntary giving excellent results. The developed system has an added value in relation to other tele commercial solutions from a usability standpoint and also provides...

A comprehensive health and patient monitoring and data recording system has been developed using wireless sensor networks and supporting device and web infrastructure. This paper describes the components of the overall system. This includes the network architecture, node architecture, software infrastructure for recording data locally on servers as well as on Microsoft HealthVault data reposito...

Those with proprioceptive impairments can use their other senses as the proprioceptive feedback.We hypothesize that tele-immersion systems can aid in this supplemented proprioception by providing novel visual perspectives of one’s own body. In particular we are interested as to whether the real-time 3D reconstructions used in tele-immersive systems are better or worse than conventional 2D views...