A novel B-mode ultrasound image compression method based on beam forming data

Author

Li, Xiaojuan ; Hu, Guangshu ; Gao, Shangkai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1274

Abstract

A novel coding method is presented for ultrasound image compression in teleultrasound system. The encoder chooses the video signals immediately after the ultrasonic beam forming as the object to be compressed other than the standard video images using in traditional methods. The compression algorithm is based on the 2-D discrete wavelet transform and arithmetic coding. Experiments on several images show satisfying results

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; data compression; discrete wavelet transforms; image coding; medical image processing; 2-D discrete wavelet transform; B-mode ultrasound image compression method; arithmetic coding; beam forming data; medical diagnostic imaging; standard video images; teleultrasound system; video signals; Arithmetic; Compression algorithms; Data compression; Discrete cosine transforms; Discrete wavelet transforms; Image coding; Medical services; Real time systems; Ultrasonic imaging; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747109

Filename

747109