Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment

Khan, Mohammed Soheeb; Charissis, Vassilis; Harrison, David; Sakellariou, Sophia; Chan, Warren

Abstract

Telehealth provides a much needed option for remote diagnosis and monitoring of various pathologies and patients. Remote provision of health care can offer a two fold support for the medical system and the patients. Primarily it could serve isolated locations and secondly it could monitor a large number of outpatient cases directly on their homes instead of the hospital premises. However in specific cases direct communication and visual data acquisition can be a major obstacle. To this end we have developed a prototype system that could enable the medical practitioners to have real-time diagnosis through 3D captured visual and motion data. This data are recreated in a Virtual Reality environment in the hospital facilities offering a unique system for remote diagnosis.

Citation

Khan, M. S., Charissis, V., Harrison, D., Sakellariou, S., & Chan, W. (2013, July). Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment. Presented at VAMR 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: VAMR 2013
• Start Date: Jul 21, 2013
• End Date: Jul 26, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: May 19, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 50-59
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 8022
• Book Title: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Systems and Applications
• ISBN: 978-3-642-39419-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1_6
• Keywords: virtual reality; human computer interaction; gesture recognition; kinect; telemedicine; diagnosis; musculoskeletal conditions; patient care; patient knowledge