scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1193389

Numerical methods in Fourier analysis (65T99) Theory of data (68P99) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

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The storage requirement of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) of a large hospital such as UCLA Medical Center exceeds two terabytes per year. Network traffic is also considerably slowed down by retrieval of large images. Implementing a practical PACS thus requires a good method to compress the images for archival storage and transmission. Applications in primary-diagnosis teleradiology require that the original radiographic data are transmitted over a baud-rate-limited communication line without any degradation in quality. Affordability and practicality of viewing stations also requires that a high-speed reconstruction of the compressed images can be implemented using inexpensive, widely available hardware. We have developed compression algorithms that combine discrete wavelet transforms with arithmetic coding. The algorithms can be either lossy for archival applications or lossless for primary diagnosis applications. Compression is achieved by transforming the picture into wavelet coefficients and then encoding the coefficients using arithmetic coding. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0889.00018].

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