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Cited by 24Ultrasound in Clinical ApplicationsTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationICT in Developing Communities

New tele-diagnostic model using volume sweep imaging for rural areas

Ferrer, Jose, Chaumont, Thomas, Trujillo, Leslie, Fernandez, Italo, Guerrero, Jorge, Stewart, Pilar, Garra, Gail, Campos, Maria Fernanda +8 more·2017·2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
DOI 10.1109/embc.2017.8037395
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Advances in information and communications technologies provide a new opportunity to improve the access to healthcare in remote rural areas (RA) where there is a lack of infrastructure and medical experts. This paper implements a new model for tele-ultrasound (US) based on volumetric sweep imaging protocols specially designed for the acquisition of US. Non-physician health personnel from the RA are trained on the use of these protocols in a few days. The operator utilizes the medical box (MB), a specially designed telecommunication system, to guide, compress, encrypt and transmit the US sweeps through the cloud to the radiologist who performs the diagnosis remotely. The report is automatically sent back to the MB. The system was able to send US volumetric images with poor connectivity conditions in 6 minutes on average. These results of implementing this tele-ultrasound model in RAs are encouraging and support future validations.

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  • Several studies on the topic of tele-ultrasound in resource-limited settings were not included because they did not report a patient care intervention or meaningful clinical outcomes.

    “Several studies on the topic of tele-ultrasound in resource-limited settings were not included because they did not report a patient care intervention or meaningful clinical outcomes (20, 57–60).”

    From Tele-Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Systematic Review (2019) · cites this paper as [59]

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Authors
Ferrer, J., Chaumont, T., Trujillo, L., Fernandez, I., Guerrero, J., Stewart, P., Garra, G., Campos, M. F., Garra, K., Stephens, N., Harley, C., Jacobo, S., Waks, E., Miele, F., Garra, B., & Castaneda, B.
Affiliations
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PE)
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Venue
2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Volume
2017
Pages
2622-2625
ISSN
2375-7477 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/embc.2017.8037395
OpenAlex
W2756052309
Cited by
24
References
18
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
FWCI
26.05
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine › Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
Keywords
tele-ultrasound, rural healthcare access, telemedicine, remote diagnosis
MeSH terms
Rural Population, Telecommunications, Ultrasonography, Telemedicine

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