Introduction of SARS Grid

[Steven Shiau]

Hello! Thomas:
The following is the things we have done recently, this introduction is
written by my colleague Jazz Wang. It will be in the
sarsgrid.nchc.org.tw in a few days. Hope this will provide you some
useful information.
All the jobs we have done is in Linux, and of course, it's FOSS.
We greatly appreciate your kindness. Really really thank you.

Sincerely,
Steven.
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*From:* JazzWang <mailto:c00ycw00 at nchc.org.tw>
*To:* d00swh00 at nchc.gov.tw <mailto:d00swh00 at nchc.gov.tw>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:55 AM
*Subject:* Introduction of SARS Grid

SARS Grid includes two main applications. One is the web protal named
"SARS Hope", and you
can find the web protal here:
http://www.sarshope.org
The SARS Hope web portal is trying to build a patient database to
trackpatients who might
be infected withSARS. The other part of SARS Grid is an user
interfacemodified from
ReLaTe project of UCL. Our main efforts are trying to provide doctors a
friendly platform
to discuss and cooperate with each other. We will describe the features
of this application
and show some screenshots of it.
FEATURES:
1. "One Click Startup"
Since our end-users are doctors who might notbe fimiliar to operate
computer,
we should provide an easier interface for them to startup the program.
We put a large icon on the desktop and it will bring up a functional
menu like
the screenshot shown below.
Fig.1 -- Large Shotshut Icon on Desktop
Fig. 2 -- Functional Menu
2. User interface optimized for dual-view display.
The usre interface is modified from ReLaTe project of UCL. We tried to
optimize
it for our hardwares. The left view is the video conference tool (vic)
which
allowsdoctors to know who participates in this conference. The right
view is a
modified whiteboard (wbd) program which allow doctors to download X-Ray
pictures
from patient database of SARS Hope website.
Fig.3 -- User interface optimized for dual-view display
3. Modified whiteboard program for medical purpose.
For doctors who want to discuss the symptoms of a patient who mightbe
infected
withSARS,it's important to discuss with the X-Ray pictures. In the
project of
"SARS Hope", we develope a patient database with these X-Ray image
records of
each patient. When doctors want to discuss the symptoms,they only need
to know
the patient's ID, then he can query from the image database and download
these
X-Ray pictures.
Besides, we add a scrollbar for doctors to adjust the Gamma of X-Ray
pictures.
It will help doctors to find out where the SARS symptom is.
Fig.4 -- Modified whiteboard program for medical purpose
Fig.5 -- the case of increasing the Gamma
Fig.6 -- the case of decreasing the Gamma
4. User interface modified forcomparison of X-Ray pictures.
Thereis still a requirement from the opinion of doctors. That is we
should provide an
interface for them to compare two or more X-Ray pictures. By now, we use
two whiteboard
program to achieve it temporarily.
Fig.7 -- User interface modified forcomparison of X-Ray pictures
FUTURE WORKS:
1. We still need to do more efforts to make the user interfacemore friendly.
Our final goal is to make the useraware nothing of the existance ofOS.
Let users operate this application like using ATM machine.
2. We will try to modified the codec of vic, make the quality of video
conferencebecome better than it is now.
3. For further usage, we need to work out a version which might take care of
meeting seesions and ensure the security of the conference meeting.
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