High efficiency video coding for ultrasound video communication in m-health systems.
Emerging high efficiency video compression methods and wider availability of wireless network infrastructure will significantly advance existing m-health applications. For medical video communications, the emerging video compression and network standards support low-delay and high-resolution video transmission, at the clinically acquired resolution and frame rates. Such advances are expected to further promote the adoption of m-health systems for remote diagnosis and emergency incidents in daily clinical practice. This paper compares the performance of the emerging high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard to the current state-of-the-art H.264/AVC standard. The experimental evaluation, based on five atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound videos encoded at QCIF, CIF, and 4CIF resolutions demonstrates that 50% reductions in bitrate requirements is possible for equivalent clinical quality.
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. panayides@ucy.ac.cy
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Constantinides
D000465:Algorithms; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*