Honours projects 2010

Projects supervised by Xiuying Wang, David Feng and Peng Gong

Streaming-Based Interactive Prototype for Telemedicine
Telemedicine is a promising solution to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of health care and to reduce the cost. Huge volumes of biomedical images from diverse imaging modalities (such as MR, PET, CT and the combined PET/CT) are indispensable information recourses for clinical diagnosis and treatment and make telemedicine more practical and reliable. The DICOM provides a common standard for hospital scans and supports viewing and distributing biomedical images. However, with the continuously increasing of the medical image size and volume, it is challenging to have a real-time display and manipulation on a remote site with the conventional telemedicine system. In order to improve the clinical workflow, this project is to provide a streaming-based technique for real-time telemedicine. The project has two parts: the centralized streaming-based DICOM server and streaming-based interactive DICOM viewer. The project will offer an opportunity to work closely with clinical staff members at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Through this project, students can apply their knowledge to provide practical solutions to challenging real-world problems and can keep in touch with the state-of-the-art telemedicine frameworks and applications. The project can be extended to a Ph.D. research project and the outcome may have the potential to be applied in clinical practice.