DICOM MEDICAL DATA COMPRESSION FOR TELEMEDICINE IN RURAL AREAS
Vinayak K. Bairagi, Ashvini Gaikwad, M. Kanaskar · 2008
ABSTRACT Today the use of computers for handling image data in the healthcare field is growing. The CT and MR scanare the modern image generating techniques. Large amount of data is produced by these techniques. Due tothe larger size, these images require a large storage space. This may be bottleneck of the system for thetransmitting images over a channel with limited bandwidth especially for rural area. It is there for necessary tocompress these medical images. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine is the most comprehensiveversion of an imaging communications standard which is worldwide accepted in medical field. This paper looksinto the technological issues that are of prime concern in the growth of telemedicine services and presents oneof the efficient ways to compress the medical images. Keywords : telemedicine, DICOM, SPIHT, ultrasound images, Quality measures, speckle noise. storage point of view or when the data is sent over anetwork. To overcome this problem image data canbe compressed. Data compression is the process ofconverting an input file into another file havingsmaller size.