Title :
Compressing and transmitting visible human images
Author :
Thoma, George R. ; Long, L. Rodney
Author_Institution :
Nat. Libr. of Med., Bethesda, MD, USA
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;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
