Wavelets and subband coding
An image processing and management system for radiology with telemedicine services
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on ITIS—an international telemedical information society
Pattern Recognition Letters
Precise acquisition and unsupervised segmentation of multi-spectral images
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Pervasive E-health Services Using the DVB-RCS Communication Technology
Journal of Medical Systems
Power control schemes in wireless sensor networks for homecare e-health applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Collecting highly reproducible images to support dermatological medical diagnosis
Image and Vision Computing
Enabling location privacy and medical data encryption in patient telemonitoring systems
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on body sensor networks
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The paper presents a computer-based imaging system aiming to support telemedicine examination sessions in dermatology. Many studies have proved the inadequacy of general practitioners to diagnose successfully common dermatological diseases; some of them may prove fatal if not diagnosed at their early stages (e.g., melanoma). Thus the need for telemedicine systems customized for dermatology becomes obvious for distant rural areas, where dermatological care is usually provided by general doctors. We treat technological issues such as image acquisition, camera calibration, illumination, data transmission, and data compression, and propose a store and forward architecture for image transmission. We also include a study of the effect that image compression quality factor has in the diagnostic value of the skin digital images, along with some initial results and conclusions from the pilot use of the system.