QoE for telemedicine: challenges and trends

Christine Cavaro-Ménard; Zhang Ge Lu; Patrick Le Callet

doi:10.1117/12.2027293

26 September 2013 QoE for telemedicine: challenges and trends

Christine Cavaro-Ménard, Zhang Ge Lu, Patrick Le Callet

Proceedings Volume 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI; 88561A (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027293
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Telemedicine that involves sharing of digital data (i.e. physiological signals, 2D/3D images and videos) should meet the same standards of traditional healthcare in terms of usability, accessibility, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of clinical processes. All these requirements can be seen as elementary components that participate to the quality of experience (QoE) in an ad hoc medical application scenario. Although, the quality of service (QoS) in telemedicine has been quite investigated, QoE is still lacking clear definition in this context. This later should not be assimilated to QoS as it refers clearly to the experience by the user while QoS focuses mostly on the system. QoE has a potential relevancy to optimize and understand the technical transmission chain from the final task point viewpoint which one of the most important factor for adoption of telemedicine. Towards this goal, QoE studies should be conducted with an appropriate methodology incorporating user involvement and digital data and their relation with QoS. As one of the first effort in this field, this paper proposes a survey of some key issues and solutions associated to QoE in telemedicine. We first present the services offered by telemedicine and underline the significance of QoE for tele-diagnosis and tele-surgery. Next, we identify and analyze the influencing factors such as application area, application purpose (emergency care, acquisition assistance, second opinion, education...), content type (data specificities depending on acquisition modality), context of use (offline/real time, interactivity...), and user's state (stress, expertise...), that have to be considered for a relevant QoE assessment in telemedicine.

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Christine Cavaro-Ménard, Zhang Ge Lu, and Patrick Le Callet "QoE for telemedicine: challenges and trends", Proc. SPIE 8856, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVI, 88561A (26 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027293

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