A multimedia telemedicine system to assess musculoskeletal disorders

  • Authors:

  • J. C. Guerri;C. E. Palau;A. Pajares;A. Belda;J. J. Cermeno;C. M. Esteve

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Dept. of Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Assessing of the physical condition of the human body, and concretely musculoskeletal disorders, frequently requires evaluating different tests performed by different devices. This information has to be analysed simultaneously to derive conclusions, and so a temporal relationship must be established between the data sources, Synchronization of the data sources of information is achieved by synchronising the clocks of computers connected in a local area network (LAN) by means of NTP. The added time-stamp is used to playback the data in a synchronised way. Although the proposed system is valid for any medical application in which data synchronisation is needed, it has been specifically used to capture, process, and analyse data generated by electromyographs, lumbar equipment, isotracks and video. Afterwards, the data can be distributed through Internet using a biomedia on demand (BoD) server. The whole system has been developed using JAVA and the Java Media Framework (JMF) libraries.