Region-of-interest video coding for enabling surgical telementoring in low-bandwidth scenarios

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Khire, Sourabh ^a   Robertson, Scott ^a   Jayant, Nikil ^a   Wood, Elena A ^b   Stachura, Max E ^b   Goksel, Tamer ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOSSLESS; LOW-BANDWIDTH; LOW-COMPLEXITY; REAL-TIME VIDEO COMMUNICATION; REGION OF INTEREST; REMOTE SITES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SURGICAL EVALUATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TELEMENTORING;

BANDWIDTH; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS;

SURGERY;

EID: 84874338405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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