Ferrer Jose, Chaumont Thomas, Trujillo Leslie, Fernandez Italo, Guerrero Jorge, Stewart Pilar, Garra Gail, Campos Maria Fernanda, Garra Katherine, Stephens Nicole, Harley Chere, Jacobo Sylvia, Waks Erin, Miele Frank, Garra Brian, Castaneda Benjamin
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2017 Jul;2017:2622-2625. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037395.
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.
信息和通信技术的进步为改善偏远农村地区（RA）的医疗保健服务提供了新机会，这些地区缺乏基础设施和医学专家。本文基于专门为超声（US）采集设计的容积扫描成像协议，实现了一种新型远程超声（US）模型。来自农村地区的非医师卫生人员在几天内接受了这些协议使用方面的培训。操作员利用医疗箱（MB），这是一种专门设计的通信系统，来引导、压缩、加密并通过云将超声扫描图像传输给远程进行诊断的放射科医生。报告自动发送回医疗箱。该系统能够在平均6分钟内发送连通性较差情况下的超声容积图像。在农村地区实施这种远程超声模型的这些结果令人鼓舞，并为未来的验证提供了支持。
