Title
New Ultrasound Telediagnostic System for Low-Resource Areas: Pilot Results From Peru
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Marini T.J.
Oppenheimer D.C.
Baran T.M.
Rubens D.J.
Toscano M.
Drennan K.
Garra B.
Miele F.R.
Garra G.
Noone S.J.
Tamayo L.
Carlotto C.
Trujillo L.
Waks E.
Garra K.
Berrospi J.
Innovación y tecnología médicas
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Abstract
Billions of people around the world lack access to diagnostic imaging. To address this issue, we piloted a comprehensive ultrasound telediagnostic system, which uses ultrasound volume sweep imaging (VSI) acquisitions capable of being performed by operators without prior traditional ultrasound training and new telemedicine software capable of sending imaging acquisitions asynchronously over low Internet bandwidth for remote interpretation. The telediagnostic system was tested with obstetric, right upper quadrant abdominal, and thyroid volume sweep imaging protocols in Peru. Scans obtained by operators without prior ultrasound experience were sent for remote interpretation by specialists using the telemedicine platform. Scans obtained allowed visualization of the target region in 96% of cases with diagnostic imaging quality. This telediagnostic system shows promise in improving health care disparities in the developing world.
Start page
583
End page
595
Volume
40
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Obstetricia, Ginecología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85089395948
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
ISSN of the container
02784297
Sponsor(s)
We thank Medical Imaging Ministries of the Americas and Medical Innovation and Technology for allowing the publication of their illustrated posters and videos as supplemental material; Pilar Stewart, Thomas Chaumont, Italo Fernandez Salgado, Silvina Zabala‐Travers, MD, Nicole Stephens, and Cheree Harlee, RDMS, for assistance in the study; Jane Lichorowic and Nadezhda Kiriyak for illustrating Figure 1; and Sarah Klingenberger for help with the figures. This work was supported by CONCYTEC/FONDECYT (175‐FONDECYT‐DE), Innovate Peru (596‐INNOVATEPERU‐EDAI‐2015 and PR‐PVE‐201), and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP DGI‐2016‐345). Dr Castaneda and all authors affiliated with Medical Innovation and Technology have a financial stake in Medical Innovation and Technology, which seeks to deploy ultrasound in rural areas.
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