DocumentCode
1252419
Title
Compressing and transmitting visible human images
Author
Thoma, George R. ; Long, L. Rodney
Author_Institution
Nat. Libr. of Med., Bethesda, MD, USA
Volume
4
Issue
2
fYear
1997
Firstpage
36
Lastpage
45
Abstract
We address compression and transmission issues related to images in the National Library of Medicine´s Visible Human Project. In total, these images amount to about 235 Gbytes of data, challenging conventional storage, retrieval, and transmission methods. We discuss lossless and lossy methods to compress the images. We also consider advanced transmission-control protocol approaches plus a multisocket technique we developed for transmitting images over wide-area networks
Keywords
data compression; image coding; library automation; medical image processing; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; wide area networks; 235 GByte; National Library of Medicine; Visible Human Project; human image compression; image retrieval; image storage; lossless methods; lossy methods; multimedia; multisocket technique; transmission-control protocol; visible human image transmission; wide-area networks; Biomedical imaging; CD-ROMs; Color; Discrete cosine transforms; Humans; Image coding; Image storage; Protocols; Software libraries; Transform coding;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
MultiMedia, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1070-986X
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/93.591160
Filename
591160
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