A Remote Auscultation Support System Using Network
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概要
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A remote auscultation support system was developed that compresses and records in real time the patient's breath sound and heart sound, obtained using a stethoscope, and sends this data to an attending doctor at a hospital via network. For real-time recording of the breath sound and heart sound, special-purpose, high-quality sound coding technology was developed and incorporated in the system. This sound coding technology enables the amount of data to be reduced to about 1/18 with virtually no deterioration of the properties of the auscultation sound, high-speed transmission of this data using network, and remote diagnosis of the auscultation sound by a medical specialist. The auscultation locations of each patient, together with the doctor, stethoscoper, and patient database are input into the system in advance at the hospital. At the patient's home or sanatorium, the auscultation sound is recorded according to a human body display that shows auscultation locations, and then sent to the hospital. To ensure patient confidentiality when the auscultation data is transmitted via network, the system scrambles the auscultation data and allows only the attending doctor to play and diagnose the auscultation sound. These features not only support an understanding of the condition of patients being treated at home, but they also enable the construction of an auscultation database for electronic charts that allows auscultation results to be shared within the hospital. When this remote auscultation support system was manufactured and its performance was assessed, virtually the same waveform was obtained for the recorded and played breath sound as for the original breath sound. Results showed that even at a sampling frequency of 11 kHz, remote diagnosis by a medical specialist was in fact possible. Furthermore, if auscultation data of 10 seconds per location for 10 locations is sent, the amount of data sent is only about 120 Kbytes. Since this amount of data converts to only about 25 pages of electronic mail text, even via the existing mobile network the auscultation sounds of many patients can be sent efficiently.
- 社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
- 2001-08-01
著者
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Kaneko T
Redox Regulation Research Group Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Of Gerontology
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MORIYA Takehiro
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories NTT Corporation
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KANEKO Takao
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories NTT Corporation
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IWAKAMI Naoki
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
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Moriya T
Ntt Cyber Space Laboratories Ntt Corporation
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Moriya Takehiro
Ntt Communication Science Laboratories Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
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Kaneko Takao
Ntt Cyber Space Laboratories
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