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

fYear

1998

fDate

20-22 May 1998

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

105

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering Days, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 2nd International Conference

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4242-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IBED.1998.710598

Filename

710598