Colloquium Computer Science, Prof. C. Pattichis

Title: An Overview of M-Health Video Communication Systems

                      

Abstract:

Significant technological advances over the past decade have led m-health systems and services to a remarkable growth. It is anticipated that such systems and services will soon be established in standard clinical practice. M-health medical video communication systems progression has been primarily driven by associated advances in video coding and wireless networks technologies. Responsive, reliable, and of high-diagnostic quality systems are now feasible, and build on compression ratios and error resilience tools found in current state-of-the-art video coding standards, linked with low-delay and high-bandwidth communications facilitated by new wireless systems. To achieve this however, these systems need to be diagnostically driven. In other words, both encoding and transmission need to adapt to the underlying medical video modality’s properties, for maximizing the communicated video’s clinical capacity. Moreover, the proper mechanisms should be developed that will guarantee the quality of the transmitted clinical content. Current video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms are unsuccessful to replicating clinical evaluation performed by the relevant medical experts. Clearly, there is a demand for new clinical VQA metrics. This lecture reviews medical video communication systems. It highlights past approaches and focuses on current design trends and future challenges. It provides an insight to the most prevailing diagnostically driven concepts and the challenges associated with each system component, including pre-processing, encoding, wireless transmission, and quality assessment. It discusses how exploiting high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, together with the emergence of 4G wireless networks, is expected to deliver the m-health medical video communications systems that will rival in hospital examinations. The latter, linked clinical VQA that will correlate with clinical ratings is expected to aid the adoption of such systems and services in daily clinical practice.

Colloquium coordinators are Prof.dr. M. Aiello (e-mail : M.Aiello rug.nl ) and
Prof.dr. M. Biehl (e-mail: M.Biehl rug.nl )

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