COMPRESSING AND TRANSMITTING VISIBLE HUMAN IMAGES

Authors
THOMA GR LONG LR
Citation
Gr. Thoma et Lr. Long, COMPRESSING AND TRANSMITTING VISIBLE HUMAN IMAGES, IEEE multimedia, 4(2), 1997, pp. 36-45
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Sciences","Computer Science Theory & Methods","Computer Science Information Systems
Journal title
IEEE multimedia → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070986X
Volume
4
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
36 - 45
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-986X(1997)4:2<36:CATVHI>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We address compression and transmission issues related to images in th e National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. In total, thes e images amount to about 235 G bytes of data, challenging conventional storage, retrieval, and transmission methods. Here we discuss lossles s and lossy methods to compress the images. We also consider advanced transmission-control protocol approaches plus a multisocket technique we developed for transmitting images over wide-area networks.