Differential image compression for telemedicine: a novel approach

• Main Authors: Khan, Adnan Alam, Shah, Asadullah, Muhammad, Saghir
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: College of Computer Science & Information Systems, Karachi 2011
• Subjects: T10.5 Communication of technical information
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/14119/1/download.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/14119/

Telemedicine is one of the most emerging technologies of applied medical sciences. Medical information related to patients is transmitted and stored for references and consultations. Medical images occupy huge space; in order to transmit these images may delay the process of image transmission in critical times. Image compression techniques provide a better solution to combat bandwidth scarcity problems, and transmit same image in a much lower bandwidth requirements, more faster and at the same time maintain quality. In this paper a differential image compression method is developed in which medical images are taken from a wounded patient and are compressed to reduce the bit rate of these images. Results indicate that on average 25% compression on images is achieved with 3.5 MOS taken from medical doctors and other paramedical staff the ultimately user of the images.