Cardiac echo to text conversion: Closing the urban-rural connectivity gap

Abstract

This paper focuses on a healthcare solution capable of converting echocardiography videos into text, and vice versa, for transmission between urban and rural areas. People living in rural areas often encounter restrictions on essential healthcare services because of large distances. Telemedicine provides a possible answer to this problem. Several wireless technologies have been used in telemedicine systems and have widen the availability of medical services. However, wireless connectivity for mobile devices remains low in rural areas, especially Malaysia. The transmission of digital media requires high bandwidth wireless connections due to large file sizes. Without it, transmission delays may prevent effective patient care. Furthermore, in areas lacking internet connectivity, these services may cease to function. Preliminary experiments show that the proposed solution can achieve a file size reduction ranging from 66% to 96% when converting video to text.