TeleOph: A secure real-time teleophthalmology system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1259-1266

  Wu, Yongdong ^a   Wei, Zhou ^b   Yao, Haixia ^a   Zhao, Zhigang ^a   Ngoh, Lek Heng ^a   Deng, Robert H ^c   Yu, Shengsheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Teleconferencing; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; CONSULTATION SERVICES; ELECTRONIC COUNTERPARTS; MEDICAL DATA; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; NETWORK RESOURCE; POISSON MODEL; PRIMARY HEALTHCARE; PUBLIC INTERNET; SECURE CHANNELS; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; TELEOPHTHALMOLOGY;

HOSPITALS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TELECONFERENCING;

TELEMEDICINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; REMOTE CONSULTATION; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956361744     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2058124     Document Type: Article

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