An implementation of real-time monitoring and analysis in telemedicine

Telemedicine creates virtual medical collaborative environments. The authors present a telemedical virtual environment based on Internet technology for real time EEG monitoring and analysis. We apply a novel concept of interactive virtual medical devices (VMD) and merge remote data acquisition, distributed processing, and multimodal data presentation. VMD has spatially distributed functions: I/O at patient side, processing, and presentation at physician side. Data acquisition is realized using a remote EEG device connected to the Internet. Sophisticated real time signal processing algorithms are functionally integrated into VMDs. The implemented Web based environment provides support for telemedical applications in neurophysiology.

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