SOLO-MEDICINE IN OPTICAL BIOPSIES - A Way to Practice Telemedicine

Olga Ferrer, Francesco Ettorre, Xiomara Santos, Thomas Zinkl, Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado

2011

Abstract

A way to practice Telemedicine is to access a data-base capable to assist you in medical procedures (diagnosis, treatment and prognosis), similarly to consult a book or to ask a college. In many countries the lack of specialists and training capabilities demand to practice solo-medicine, that in the case of surgery require robots capable to induce anesthesia or help in vision or handling instruments. A relevant case is the diagnostic self-training requirements for optical biopsies (OBs) obtained with confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) or the assistance in the diagnosis of pathology slides. In both cases it is required a training set of digital images against which to compare the question case by means of image-queryformat. The present paper present a content-based image retrieval system (CBIR) based on the MPEG Query Format Standard in order to provide a set of similar pictures and the corresponding diagnosis to help on diagnosis or just to train the doctor. The paper defined the Image Solo-Medicine Paradigm (ISMP) architecture merging medical image standards and MPEG and JPEG standards. It tested the solution with normal, and benign colon OBs with 90% congruency. The ISMP is of particular interest viewed the proliferation of iPhone medical applications aiming to train doctors and support medical decisions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ferrer O., Ettorre F., Santos X., Zinkl T., Tous R. and Delgado J. (2011). SOLO-MEDICINE IN OPTICAL BIOPSIES - A Way to Practice Telemedicine . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-34-8, pages 441-445. DOI: 10.5220/0003090804410445

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf11,
author={Olga Ferrer and Francesco Ettorre and Xiomara Santos and Thomas Zinkl and Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado},
title={SOLO-MEDICINE IN OPTICAL BIOPSIES - A Way to Practice Telemedicine},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={441-445},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003090804410445},
isbn={978-989-8425-34-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - SOLO-MEDICINE IN OPTICAL BIOPSIES - A Way to Practice Telemedicine
SN - 978-989-8425-34-8
AU - Ferrer O.
AU - Ettorre F.
AU - Santos X.
AU - Zinkl T.
AU - Tous R.
AU - Delgado J.
PY - 2011
SP - 441
EP - 445
DO - 10.5220/0003090804410445