title: Advanced medical video services through context-aware medical networks.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a framework for advanced medical video delivery services, through network and patient-state awareness. Under this scope a context-aware medical networking platform is described. The developed platform enables proper medical video data coding and transmission according to both a) network availability and/or quality and b) patient status, optimizing thus network performance and telediagnosis. An evaluation platform has been developed based on scalable H.264 coding of medical videos. Corresponding results of video transmission over a WiMax network have proved the effectiveness and efficiency of the platform providing proper video content delivery.
authors.affiliation: Dep. of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece. doukas@aegean.gr
authors.forename: Charalampos N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Doukas
authors.forename: Ilias
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maglogiannis
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pliakas
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*; D049269:Videoconferencing