A low-cost digital filing system for echocardiography data with MPEG4 compression and its application to remote diagnosis

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1297-1303

  Umeda, Akira ^a,g   Iwata, Yasushi ^b   Okada, Yasumasa ^c   Shimada, Megumi ^d   Baba, Akiyasu ^d   Minatogawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Yamada, Takayasu ^e   Chino, Masao ^e   Watanabe, Takafumi ^f   Akaishi, Makoto ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b DGS Computer   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KITASATO INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f Sapporo Medical Center   (Japan)

^g Natl Ctr Child Hlth & Dev   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCOMPUTER; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; VIDEOTAPE;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COMPRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL STORAGE DEVICES; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 9644295925     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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