Enabling Pre-Hospital Documentation via Spoken Language Understanding on the Modern Battlefield

Abstract

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL) and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) have been collaborating to improve methods of pre-hospital documentation. The collaboration is focused on creating a pre-hospital documentation grammar and spoken natural language understanding capability to support a hands-free and eyes-free interaction paradigm. This interaction paradigm will minimize the impact on the field medic during treatment of patients in stressful combat situations. The MediTRA-PH (Medical Treatment and Reporting Assistant: Pre-Hospital) prototype is a proof-of-concept of this approach. This paper presents the user-focused concept of operations for MediTRAPH the design and development cycles undertaken and preliminary evaluation results in terms of recognition accuracy and user satisfaction.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA536194

Entities

People

  • Kathleen Stibler
  • Kenny Sharma
  • Lisa Anthony
  • Patrice D. Tremoulet
  • Robert T. Gerhardt
  • Susan H. Regli

Organizations

  • United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Grammars
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Models
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Prototypes
  • Recognition
  • Therapy
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.