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The challenge for Europe in the field of information and communications technologies applied to health care is that of addressing positively the problem of the widening gap between the expectations of the citizens of the type of care that can be made available and the limited resources to provide that care. If the expectations of the population are to be fulfilled, it will be necessary to find innovative ways of delivering health services and to do it more efficiently than has yet been the case. Advanced information and communications technologies will be important tools for Member States to achieve the levels of efficiency required. Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
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After a historical account and a brief description of the techniques of signal analysis used in their laboratory (visual evoked potentials (VEPs) with statistical calculations, Fast Fourier Transform, correlation function), the authors present the experiments they undertook concerning colored stimulations. These experiments were carried out in 3 steps: colored stimulations on a cathode-ray screen, with constant luminance, concerning 8 healthy volunteers (72 VEPs analyzed); colored stimulations on a 'structured' screen (pattern reversal), concerning 31 healthy volunteers (186 VEPs analyzed); colored and pattern stimulations on a new cathode-ray stimulator built in the 'Centre National des Arts et Métiers' enabling both preceding types of stimulations with increased reliability and offering new possibilities of stimulation (variation of contrast, luminance or chromaticity precisely controlled) with various patterns in the background. The results evidence two different groups of electrophysiological responses, distinctly related to the presence or absence of a morphological structure in the stimulation. As well as this, a significant increase in latencies is observed with blue stimulations.
Three experiments were conducted on 90 flying personnel to determine the role of luminance, hue, and saturation contrasts on angular visual acuity measured on a CRT system. A Snellen E test object was displayed under various visual acuity conditions on a TV screen, in color contrast, using red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, white, and black. The response system gives response times and quality. The three photocolorimetric parameters are classified through data processing. All other things being equal, the best visual acuity is obtained under a luminance contrast. Two groups of colors can be differentiated under a hue contrast. The first group (red, blue, purple) is better perceived than the second (green, cyan, yellow, white) whatever the other color in simultaneous contrast may be. Higher saturation enhances visual acuity. A curve of mean response time vs. test object sizes is established for the various color couples. The obtained results are of interest for aerospace ergonomics.
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Before providing the new single-seat fighter aircraft with selective visual information display systems, it is necessary to conduct new studies of the visual behavior of pilots flying these aircraft in order to determine the nature of information to be displayed. The authors describe a modified NAC Eye Mark recorder which can be used in tight spaces without any interfering light source and given an example of its use in an experiment conducted in a Mirage III R training simulator. The reported experiment was designed to analyse the visual behavior of 12 pilots of four different qualification levels who flew a ground control approach (GCA) test each day for five consecutive days. The results show that the pilot's visual behavior is stable, both on an intra- and inter-individual basis. In addition, it is possible to classify the control panel instruments as a function of the number of times and length of time they are checked.
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3D vision assessment depends on monocular and binocular factors. In ophthalmology, it is clinically evaluated through the optometric examination which is not exhaustive according to the monocular elements and doesn't take on the visual stimulus quantification. The video and electro-optic displays can meet all these exigencies. The basic principles they share are exposed and then an illustration is given of their performance and their adaptation to the physiologic mechanisms. So is presented a study on the fusion area of heterophoric subjects depending on the stimulus spatial frequencies (the synthetic precisely quantified images shown were circular DOGs). This area is greatly modified following the variety of subject's heterophoria.
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