Touchless autopsy report

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

This dissertation is a response to the most uncomfortable tasks in the medical examiners work, the tasks required to prepare an autopsy report. This is one of their biggest and most frequent limitations. The new technological tools of person-machine interface in the market motivated the realization of this project. This project is developed in Java, and allows a medical examiner to perform an autopsy report without requiring physical contact with the computer. Thus, this work has the following advantages: it does not require that the medical examiner removes his gloves whenever he needs to make an annotation, also, there is no need to transcribe information from paper format to a digital format, furthermore, it makes the process of developing the autopsy report simple having less likelihood of contaminate the material. This application was designed and developed in order to facilitate their use through voice commands, using the Java Speech and gestures detected by Leap Motion. The application operation is very satisfactory and was a source of enthusiasm to the medical examiners that accompanied the project, since this work has created a useful tool for their daily work.