Keywords: frameworks, design patterns, software architecture, object-orientation, telemedicine
Received January 15, 2004; revised April 23 & August 17, 2004; accepted April 18, 2005.
Communicated by Pau-Choo Chung.
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Hewijin Christine Jiau, Jinghong Cox Chen, Kuo-Feng Ssu and Jim-Min Lin*
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, 701 Taiwan
*Department of Information Engineering
Feng Chia University
Taichung, 407 Taiwan
Conventional development of telemedicine systems usually leads to a medical information
driven paradigm that tends to fail in capturing suitable abstraction when developing
conference-oriented telemedicine systems for assisting the proceeding of telemedicine
practices. By reviewing publicly available telemedicine systems through commonality
and variability analysis, we have identified common design concerns and tried
to provide a framework for supporting reuse-based development. Based on identified
common design concerns, a generic model of conference-oriented telemedicine systems
and layered architecture are illustrated as a basis for analyzing typical design problems
encountered when developing similar systems. As the main part of our work, we have
proposed seven commonly occurring design problems and realized a framework implementation
to provide a general resolution to these design problems based on the generic
model and layered architecture of conference-oriented telemedicine systems. Finally, the
details of the proposed framework are explained and a comparison with related telemedicine
systems is given.
Received January 15, 2004; revised April 23 & August 17, 2004; accepted April 18, 2005.
Communicated by Pau-Choo Chung.