title: Virtual slide telepathology systems with JPEG2000.
abstract: In this paper the JPEG2000 standard is analyzed showing how to exploit all its powerful features in order to build efficient virtual slide telepathology systems. We propose a fast method for stitching images in the wavelet domain. Stitching is a process necessary in many virtual slide systems to generate only one image of a slide with the maximum resolution. This method profits from the structure of the JPEG2000 images to carry out the process with the minimum memory consumption and computational load, obtaining a smoothed union without losing any detail.
authors.affiliation: Computer Architecture and Electronic Dept., University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain.
authors.forename: J P García
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ortiz
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: García
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D003626:Data Display; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D019113:Telepathology / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface