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Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) is used to visualize ultrasound heart images for diagnosis or surgery monitoring. The existing TEE is operator dependent and does not provide sufficient safety features to localize the TEE probe tip inside the human body. In order to improve safety in the usage of TEE, a novel technique for TEE probe tip localization has been developed. This technique is based...
The quality of ultrasound images highly depends on sonographer skills. This paper describes a platform for the reduction of operator dependency during transabdominal ultrasound examinations. The design includes a linear system to enable automatic transabdominal ultrasonography of the cervix. The system was integrated within APLIO MX SSA-780A TOSHIBA ultrasound machine. Results show operator independent...
As stated by WHO, around 9.2% of 28 million newborn babies worldwide are stillbirths. Moreover, approximately 358,000 women died in 2008 due to birth complication. Most of these incidents occur in developing countries. Existing telehealth systems are not integrated in rural and remote areas. Midwives in those areas do not get any support by medical specialists during high risk pregnancy situations...
Maternal mortality plays a major role as one negative factor in the context of improvements in developing countries. In the perspective of Wawasan 2020 this paper provides a solution towards the decrease of maternal mortality by presenting an entire prenatal care kit consisting of soft- and hardware. Several published approaches in prenatal care are discussed herein. The difference of our approach...
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