The Effect of Data Exchange Protocols on Decision Support Systems for Heart Sounds

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Gomes, P (Author) Other; Faria, S (Author) Other; Coimbra, M (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2016, Orlando, FL, USA, August 16-20, 2016

Pages: 5384-5387

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citation

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Authenticus ID: P-00M-4PC

DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591944

Abstract (EN): Heart auscultation is one of the basic exams performed during a patient physical examination, but it is also one that has a high skill ceiling. Decision support systems can provide physicians with a tool that can help to reduce the demanding skill requirements of this exam. Nevertheless, this second opinion needs to be delivered in a timely interval in order to be truly useful for a physician. To do this we need not only optimized algorithms, but also a well designed system. In this paper, we have studied how two different data exchange protocols, that define how data should be transferred from an acquisition to a process module, can impact the celerity of delivering second opinion to a physician. With data collected from real exams, acquired in a field hospital initiative in Brazil, we recreated two use cases that allowed us to measure performance in the form of time and resources spent, as well as power consumption. Results have shown that different data exchange protocols can have a significant impact on a decision support system response time.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4