Lessons learned during the INSURRECT project (INteractive SURgical Teaching at REmote CeNtres)

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 38-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hobsley ◽  
R Mccloy ◽  
D G Jameson ◽  
S Buckton ◽  
P O'hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Video ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
First Year ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
Surgical Teaching ◽  
Course Material ◽  
High Quality Video

The INSURRECT project began in 1993 as a collaboration between six UK universities in distance teaching of undergraduate surgery. The first year was spent in testing the network and preparing the course material. This was followed by a two-year pilot teaching course. During this phase, 108 teaching sessions were conducted, involving more than 1300 students in all. It was found that successful teaching depended on increasing the amount of audience interaction as much as possible and transmitting high-quality video pictures. Although the time taken to deliver material by interactive video was greater than for convention al lectures, both students and teachers responded favourably to the project.

scholarly journals Regional education on endoscopic surgery using a teleconference system with high-quality video via the internet: Saga surgical videoconferences

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Manabe ◽  
Mitsuhiro Takasaki ◽  
Takao Ide ◽  
Kenji Kitahara ◽  
Seiji Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endoscopic Surgery ◽  
Educational System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Conferencing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Anatomical Structures ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
High Quality Video ◽  
Conferencing System

Abstract Background Effective education about endoscopic surgery (ES) is greatly needed for unskilled surgeons, especially at low-volume institutions, to maintain the safety of patients. We have tried to establish the remote educational system using videoconference system through the internet for education about ES to surgeons belonging to affiliate institutions. The aim of this manuscript was to report the potential to establish a comfortable remote educational system and to debate its advantages. Methods We established a local remote educational conference system by combining the use of a general web conferencing system and a synchronized remote video playback system with annotation function through a high-speed internet. Results During 2014–2019, we conducted 14 videoconferences to review and improve surgeons’ skills in performing ES at affiliated institutions. At these conferences, while an uncut video of ES that had been performed at one of the affiliated institutions was shown, the surgical procedure was discussed frankly, and expert surgeons advised improvements. The annotation system is useful for easy, prompt recognition among the audience regarding anatomical structures and procedures that are difficult to explain verbally. Conclusions This system is of low initial cost and offers easy participation and high-quality videos. It would therefore be a useful tool for regional ES education.

scholarly journals Enhancing Mobile Military Surveillance Based on Video Streaming by Employing Software Defined Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iulisloi Zacarias ◽  
Janaína Schwarzrock ◽  
Luciano P. Gaspary ◽  
Andersonn Kohl ◽  
Ricardo Q. A. Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Streaming ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
Military Systems ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
High Quality Video

Situation awareness in surveillance systems benefits from high-quality video streaming service. This is even more important considering military systems, in which delays in image transmission may have a significant impact on the decision-making process. However, in order to deliver high-quality video streaming service, the required network infrastructure may be prohibitively complex, or even completely impossible to deploy, if mobile data providers are considered. Moreover, the demand for high network throughput poses extra requirements on the network. Considering this context, this paper addresses the problem of highly mobile networks composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as data providers of a military surveillance system. The proposed approach to tackle the problem is based on a Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach aiming at providing the best routes to deliver the data, enhancing the end-user quality of experience. An extensive experimental campaign was performed by means of simulations and the acquired results provide solid evidence of the usefulness of this proposal.

scholarly journals A method for reducing information redundancy of digital images for cloud storage

Connectivity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Katkov ◽  
◽  
O. S. Zvenigorodsky ◽  
O. V. Zinchenko ◽  
V. V. Onyshchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Compression ◽  
Video Compression ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Information Redundancy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Video Information ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
High Quality Video

The article is devoted to the topical issue of finding new effective and improving existing widespread compression methods in order to reduce computational complexity and improve the quality of image-renewable image compression images, is important for the introduction of cloud technologies. The article presents a problem To increase the efficiency of cloud storage, it is necessary to determine methods for reducing the information redundancy of digital images by fractal compression of video content, to make recommendations on the possibilities of applying these methods to solve various practical problems. The necessity of storing high-quality video information in new HDTV formats 2k, 4k, 8k in cloud storage to meet the existing needs of users has been substantiated. It is shown that when processing and transmitting high quality video information there is a problem of reducing the redundancy of video data (image compression) provided that the desired image quality is preserved, restored by the user. It has been shown that in cloud storage the emergence of such a problem is historically due to the contradiction between consumer requirements for image quality and the necessary volumes and ways to reduce redundancy of video data, which are transmitted over communication channels and processed in data center servers. The solution to this problem is traditionally rooted in the search for effective technologies for compressing, archiving and compressing video information. An analysis of video compression methods and digital video compression technology has been performed, which reduces the amount of data used to represent the video stream. Approaches to image compression in cloud storage under conditions of preservation or a slight reduction in the amount of data that provide the user with the specified quality of the restored image are shown. Classification of special compression methods without loss and with information loss is provided. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that it is advisable to use special methods of compression with loss of information to store high quality video information in the new formats HDTV 2k, 4k, 8k in cloud storage. The application of video image processing and their encoding and compression on the basis of fractal image compression is substantiated. Recommendations for the implementation of these methods are given.

High-Quality Video Recording and Monitoring System for Endoscopes

2005 ◽  
Vol 115 (8) ◽  
pp. 1520-1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Tsunoda ◽  
Atsunobu Tsunoda ◽  
Hiroyuki Ozawa ◽  
Takekatsu Fujimine
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
High Quality Video
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