Wavelet-based compression with ROI coding support for mobile access to DICOM images over heterogeneous radio networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 458-466

  Maglogiannis, Ilias ^a,b   Doukas, Charalampos ^a   Kormentzas, George ^a   Pliakas, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) images; Heterogeneous radio networks; Image compression; Mobile telemedicine; ROI coding; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM) IMAGES; HETEROGENEOUS RADIO NETWORKS; MOBILE TELEMEDICINE; ROI CODING; WAVELETS;

BROADCASTING; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DIGITAL RADIO; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RADIO; RADIO INTERFERENCE; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

IMAGE CODING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 67749084751     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.903527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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