Development of a kidney teleultrasound consultation system

• Main Authors: Hassan, A., Ibrahim, F.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/9274/1/Development_of_a_Kidney_TeleUltrasound_Consultation_System.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/9274/; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960100520&partnerID=40&md5=3a55adcb98b9ef600af4989a2a7e2eb3 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10278-010-9283-8 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20386951

This paper presents the development of kidney Tele- Ultrasound consultation system. The TeleUltrasound system provides an innovative design that aids the acquisition, archiving, and dissemination of medical data and information over the internet as its backbone. The system provides data sharing to allow remote collaboration, viewing, consultation, and diagnosis of medical data. The design is layered upon a standard known as Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM). The DICOM standard defines protocols for exchanging medical images and their associated data. The TeleUltrasound system is an integrated solution for retrieving, processing, and archiving images and providing data storage management using Structured Query Language (SQL) database. Creating a web-based interface is an additional advantage to achieve global accessibility of experts that will widely open the opportunity of greater examination and multiple consultations. This system is equipped with a high level of data security and its performance has been tested with white, black, and gray box techniques. And the result was satisfactory. The overall system has been evaluated by several radiologists in Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, and Sudan, the result is shown within this paper. © 2010 by Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.