DocumentCode :
1787993
Title :
Quality evaluation of compressed 3D surgical video
Author :
Hewage, Chaminda T. E. R. ; Appuhami, Harsha D. ; Martini, Maria G. ; Smith, Ralph ; Jourdan, Iain ; Rockall, Timothy
Author_Institution :
Wireless Multimedia & Networking (WMN) Res. Group, Kingston Univ., Kingston upon Thames, UK
fYear :
2014
fDate :
15-18 Oct. 2014
Firstpage :
71
Lastpage :
76
Abstract :
3D medical video was forecasted to be one of the groundbreaking 3D video applications. These range from tele-consultation to 3D robotics surgery. Enabling 3D video in e-health applications results in the provision of more natural viewing conditions, improved diagnosis and accurate interventions in surgical procedures. The deployment of 3D video services in healthcare is made possible to some extent by the advanced capturing devices (e.g., 3D endoscopes), recent advances in wireless communication technologies (e.g., LTE-Advanced(LTE-A)) and 3D video display technologies. Remote robotic assisted surgery and surgery training (education for surgeons) can benefit in particular from 3D video technologies due to the added dimension of depth. This paper analyzes the quality of compressed 3D surgical video. Moreover, asymmetric encoding of 3D medical video without compromising the medical quality of experience (M-QoE) is investigated in this paper. The quality of the compressed 3D medical video with the proposed method is evaluated using a comprehensive subjective quality evaluation test involving 12 medical surgeons. The results show a slightly better perception with the proposed asymmetric coding method compared to reference symmetric compression method, however the difference is statistically insignificant.
Keywords :
data compression; medical image processing; quality of experience; surgery; video coding; 3D medical video; 3D robotics surgery; 3D video applications; 3D video services; M-QoE; compressed 3D surgical video; e-health application; electronic health; medical quality of experience; natural viewing conditions; subjective quality evaluation test; surgical procedure; symmetric compression method; teleconsultation; video quality evaluation; wireless communication technology; Bit rate; Encoding; Medical diagnostic imaging; Streaming media; Surgery; Three-dimensional displays;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Natal
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001816
Filename :
7001816
Link To Document :
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