@inproceedings{a28fe62e2a5642c8b19705e6b49339c8,
title = "Asynchronous telemedicine diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries through a prototype interface in virtual reality environment",
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. This paper presents the design considerations and development process of the system and discusses the preliminary results from the system evaluation. The paper concludes with a tentative plan of future work which aims to offer the medical practitioners and the patient with a complete interface which can acquire gait data and thus analyse a large variety of musculoskeletal pathologies.",
keywords = "virtual reality, human computer interaction, gesture recognition, kinect, telemedicine, diagnosis, musculoskeletal conditions, patient care, patient knowledge",
author = "Soheeb Khan and Vassilis Charissis and David Harrison and Sophia Sakellariou and Warren Chan",
year = "2013",
month = jul,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1\_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642394195",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer Berlin",
pages = "50--59",
editor = "Randall Shumaker",
booktitle = "Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Systems and Applications",
address = "Germany",
}