Distributed network, wireless and cloud computing enabled 3-D Ultrasound; A new medical technology paradigm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Meir, Arie ^a   Rubinsky, Boris ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER NETWORK; COST CONTROL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70949094576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007974     Document Type: Article

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