Reference of Self-study
- 常用中文缩写及简要注释，引用自《未来已来-我们需要的元宇宙医学》，如果需要了解更多，请见原著。
| 元医院 | 全称是“元宇宙医院” Metaverse Hospital |
| 元门诊 | 全称是“元宇宙门诊”Metaverse outpatient clinic.” |
| 元病房 | 全称是“元宇宙病房”Metaverse hospital ward. |
| 元健康 | 全称是“元宇宙健康”Metaverse health |
| 元专家 | 全称是“元宇宙医学专家” Metaverse medical expert |
| 元医生 | 全称是“元宇宙医生”Metaverse doctor |
| 元护士 | 全称是“元宇宙护士”Metaverse nurse |
| BRM一体机 | “BRM all-in-one medical device.”
“B” stands for the surname of Bai Chunxue, “R” stands for the first letter of RealMax company, and “M” stands for the first letter of “Medicine.” The reason it is called “all-in-one” is because it includes edge cloud functionality for interaction with the “cloud” of Meta-Medicine, enabling holographic construction, simulation, virtual-real fusion, and interactive functions, and reducing transmission delay. It can support various smart terminals such as large screens, mobile phones, and smart glasses, and can carry out universal medical treatment using its cloud and terminal mode. |
| 人机MDT | The full name of Man-Machine Multi-Disciplinary Treatment (人机MDT) refers to expert doctors and AI interacting to diagnose and treat patients, and is a new term proposed by Professor Bai Chunxue. “Man” refers to expert doctors, “Machine” refers to computers, and “MDT” stands for “Multi-Disciplinary Treatment,” which refers to the process of multi-disciplinary senior experts discussing and formulating personalized diagnosis and treatment plans for patients through collective discussions. This process involves interaction between experts and AI to provide a comprehensive and accurate diagnosis and treatment plan for patients. |
| 评判二流程 | The full name of “Initial evaluation and expert review process” refers to the “two-step process of initial evaluation and expert assessment,” which utilizes the “5A engine” to have frontline doctors (including grassroots doctors) responsible for disease screening and initial diagnosis, referred to as “initial evaluation,” while senior experts are responsible for online review and research on modifying the diagnosis and treatment plan, referred to as “expert assessment.” This process aims to significantly improve the procedural knowledge and homogenize the diagnosis and treatment abilities of frontline doctors. It is a landing method for cloud-end medical models. |
- 常用英文缩写及简要注释，引用自《未来已来-我们需要的元宇宙医学》，如果需要了解更多，请见原著。
| 英文 | 中文 | 定义或含义 |
| AI | 人工智能 | AI stands for “Artificial Intelligence,” a branch of computer science that explores, develops, and applies theoretical, methodological, and technological systems for simulating, extending, and expanding human intelligence. AI attempts to understand the essence of intelligence and produce intelligent machines that mimic human-like responses, such as robots, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, and expert systems. Currently, its theories and technologies are becoming increasingly mature, and its application fields are constantly expanding. It is speculated that the technological products brought by artificial intelligence in the future will be the “containers” of human intelligence. AI can simulate human consciousness and thought information processes. AI is not human intelligence, but it can think like humans, and even surpass human intelligence, and it plays an important role in metaverse medicine. |
| APP | 应用程序 | The full name is “Application”, generally referring to software installed on a mobile phone that can supplement the shortcomings of the original system and provide personalization. With the development of technology, mobile phone functions have become more and more diverse and powerful. They are no longer as simple and rigid as they used to be, but have developed to the point where they can be comparable to computers, while also having the characteristics of portability and all-day use. |
| AR | 增强现实 | The full name is“Augmented Reality”，which is a technology that cleverly integrates virtual information with the real world. This technology widely uses various technical means such as multimedia, 3D modeling, real-time tracking and registration, intelligent interaction, and sensing, and simulates and synthesizes computer-generated text, images, 3D models, music, videos, and other virtual information, and applies them to the real world, where the two types of information complement each other, thus achieving “augmentation” of the real world. In medicine, it is a system that brings the virtual world into the real world and interacts with it. |
| DICOM | 医学数字图像与通讯 | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an international standard (ISO 12052) for medical imaging and related information, which defines a set of protocols to ensure that medical images and related information can be exchanged between different imaging equipment and software from different manufacturers, while maintaining the quality necessary for clinical use. |
| Digital Twins | 数字孪生 | Digital twin is a concept that fully utilizes physical models, sensor updates, operational histories, and other data to integrate multi-disciplinary, multi-physical, multi-scale, and multi-probability simulation processes to complete mapping in a virtual space, reflecting the entire life cycle process of the corresponding physical equipment. This is a concept that goes beyond reality and can be regarded as a digital mapping system of one or more important, interdependent equipment systems. It is a universal theoretical and technical system that can be applied in many fields, including medicine, and is expected to play an important role in meta-universe medicine. |
| eHealth | 智慧医疗 | “Smart healthcare” is a proprietary medical term that has recently emerged. It involves building a regional medical information platform for health records and using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to enable interactions between patients, medical staff, medical institutions, and medical devices, gradually achieving informatization. It is particularly suitable for tiered diagnosis and treatment, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, early warning, and disease management. |
| IAMM | 国际元宇宙医学协会和联盟 | The International Association for Metaverse in Medicine and the International Alliance for Metaverse in Medicine are the full names of the organizations. |
| IoT | 物联网 | The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) was proposed by Professor Kevin Ashton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and has since developed as an extension and expansion of the Internet. The IoT utilizes communication technologies such as local networks or the Internet to connect sensors, controllers, machines, people, and objects in new ways, achieving connectivity between people and things as well as things and things. It also realizes informationization, remote control, and intelligent management. |
| Metaverse | 元宇宙 | The metaverse is a virtual world that is linked and created using technology, which maps and interacts with the real world, and is a digital living space with a new type of social system. Its essence is the virtualization and digital representation of the real world, which requires a lot of transformation in content production, economic systems, user experience, and real-world content. Its development is gradual and takes place under the support of shared infrastructure, standards, and protocols, and is ultimately formed by the continuous integration and evolution of numerous tools and platforms. It provides an immersive experience based on augmented reality technology, generates a mirror of the real world based on digital twin technology, and builds an economic system based on blockchain technology. The metaverse closely integrates the virtual and real worlds in economic systems, social systems, and identity systems, and allows each user to produce content and edit the world. |
| Metaverse in Medicine | 元宇宙医学 | Metaverse Medicine is a mixed reality medical network platform that brings the virtual world into the real world and enables multidimensional interaction. It can also be simply understood as IoT medicine practiced through AR and VR glasses. |
| MioT | 物联网医学 | The full name is “Medical Internet of Things” or “Internet of Things in Medicine”. It refers to the integration of various sensors into medical devices, and the integration of the “Internet of Things” with the existing Internet, to achieve the integration of hospitals, patients and medical equipment. Then, through the comprehensive perception, reliable transmission and intelligent processing of the Internet of Things, it provides medical services. This technology can be applied to fields such as medical care, health management, and elderly health care, connecting renowned experts in the cloud and providing modern medical services at the end. |
| MR | 混合现实 | The full name is “Mixed Reality”, which is a combination of technologies that not only provide new viewing methods, but also provide new input methods, and all methods are combined to promote innovation. MR is a further development of virtual reality technology, which presents virtual scene information in the real scene to establish an interactive feedback loop between the real world, virtual world, and users, thereby enhancing the sense of realism in the user experience. |
| Roblox八大特征 | 八大要素 | Roblox has proposed eight characteristics of the metaverse: (1) Identity; (2) Friends; (3) Immersive; (4) Low Friction; (5) Variety; (6) Anywhere; (7) Economy; and (8) Civility. By adapting these features to the context of participating in metaverse healthcare and wellness, and uploading them onto the metaverse medical platform using the 5A engine, one can fully enjoy their empowering effects. |
| Smart bracelet | 智能腕带 | It is a technologically advanced wristband with functions such as pedometer, alarm clock, sleep monitoring, health management, anti-loss and location tracking. When worn on the wrist, it can detect the required data and display it on a screen. It has a strong battery life and real-time data can be viewed and tracked through a mobile app. However, as a medical application, it currently falls short of medical grade standards. Nonetheless, due to its convenience, it can be used for certain disease screenings. If any problems are detected, medical grade devices can be used for further diagnosis and differential diagnosis in hospitals. |
| XR | 扩展现实 | Extended Reality, also known as XR, refers to a virtual environment created through the combination of real and virtual worlds using computer technology. It is an umbrella term that encompasses various technologies such as AR, VR, MR, etc. By integrating the visual interaction techniques of these three technologies, XR provides users with a seamless transition between the virtual and real worlds, resulting in an immersive experience. XR technology, including VR and AR, can solve problems that cannot be addressed by mobile phones. |
