DEVELOPMENT OF DATA COMMUNICATION ON ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICES FOR TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS

• Main Author: Nurmansyah, Rendy
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/65293
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) devices, although they have a general weakness in the form of low image resolution, have advantages such as simple design, relatively inexpensive device components, and high portability. Therefore, in the medical field, EIT is very suitable for use in remote areas as an initial diagnosis, but because it usage in a remote area, data communication becomes an obstacle. For the reliability of data communication and to ease the computational burden of image reconstruction processing, a data communication protocol system for telemedicine applications was developed in the form of numerical data and image data based on the Internet of Things (IoT). The research has 4 stages, the first is making a simulation of EIT image reconstruction using the EIDORS program from Matlab. Second, create an Android application using the Kotlin programming language which will be used as the medium for sending EIT numeric data to the database. Third, create a Cloud Database to accommodate user data along with raw image data. Fourth, build a Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) which has been included the reconstruction program in the first stage to process numerical data into a reconstructed image. The results of the image reconstruction can be accessed again from the database using the android application. The experimental results show that image reconstruction using VM computing is a bit faster than using a laptop.