Title :
Comparison between AVI and MPEG compression of echocardiographic sequences
Author :
Accardo, A. ; Bonifacio, M.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettrotecnica Elettronica ed Inf., Trieste Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The compression of biomedical images and in particular of image sequences is an important tool not only when the reduction of the space on disk memory is required but also when the images have to be transmitted on a local area network. In all cases the compression must be realised without compromising the diagnostic contents. In this work dynamic echocardiographies were compressed with Indeo 3.2 and MPEG standard techniques to evaluate how the quality and the file dimension are modified and to determine which technique is most suitable for a sequence transmission
Keywords :
data compression; echocardiography; image sequences; local area networks; medical image processing; AVI; Indeo 3.2; MPEG compression; biomedical images compression; diagnostic contents; disk memory space reduction; echocardiographic sequences compression; file dimension; local area network transmission; medical diagnostic imaging; Biomedical imaging; Cardiology; Codecs; Echocardiography; Image coding; Image quality; Image resolution; Local area networks; Pixel; Transform coding;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering Days, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 2nd International Conference
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4242-9
DOI :
10.1109/IBED.1998.710598
