Compression of Biomedical Images and Signals

Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Table of Contents
5. Preface
6. Chapter 1: Relevance of Biomedical Data Compression
   1. 1.1. Introduction
   2. 1.2. The management of digital data using PACS
   3. 1.3. The increasing quantities of digital data
   4. 1.4. Legal and practical matters
   5. 1.5. The role of data compression
   6. 1.6. Diagnostic quality
   7. 1.7. Conclusion
   8. 1.8. Bibliography
7. Chapter 2: State of the Art of Compression Methods
   1. 2.1. Introduction
   2. 2.2. Outline of a generic compression technique
   3. 2.3. Compression of still images
   4. 2.4. The compression of image sequences
   5. 2.5. Compressing 1D signals
   6. 2.6. The compression of 3D objects
   7. 2.7. Conclusion and future developments
   8. 2.8. Bibliography
8. Chapter 3: Specificities of Physiological Signals and Medical Images
   1. 3.1. Introduction
   2. 3.2. Characteristics of physiological signals
   3. 3.3. Specificities of medical images
   4. 3.4. Conclusion
   5. 3.5. Bibliography
9. Chapter 4: Standards in Medical Image Compression
   1. 4.1. Introduction
   2. 4.2. Standards for communicating medical data
   3. 4.3. Existing standards for image compression
   4. 4.4. Conclusion
   5. 4.5. Bibliography
10. Chapter 5: Quality Assessment of Lossy Compressed Medical Images
    1. 5.1. Introduction
    2. 5.2. Degradations generated by compression norms and their consequences in medical imaging
    3. 5.3. Subjective quality assessment
    4. 5.4. Objective quality assessment
    5. 5.5. Conclusion
    6. 5.6. Bibliography
11. Chapter 6: Compression of Physiological Signals
    1. 6.1. Introduction
    2. 6.2. Standards for coding physiological signals
    3. 6.3. EEG compression
    4. 6.4. ECG compression
    5. 6.5. Conclusion
    6. 6.6. Bibliography
12. Chapter 7: Compression of 2D Biomedical Images
    1. 7.1. Introduction
    2. 7.2. Reversible compression of medical images
    3. 7.3. Lossy compression of medical images
    4. 7.4. Progressive compression of medical images
    5. 7.5. Conclusion
    6. 7.6. Bibliography
13. Chapter 8: Compression of Dynamic and Volumetric Medical Sequences
    1. 8.1. Introduction
    2. 8.2. Reversible compression of (2D+t) and 3D medical data sets
    3. 8.3. Irreversible compression of (2D+t) medical sequences
    4. 8.4. Irreversible compression of volumetric medical data sets
    5. 8.5. Conclusion
    6. 8.6. Bibliography
14. Chapter 9: Compression of Static and Dynamic 3D Surface Meshes
    1. 9.1. Introduction
    2. 9.2. Definitions and properties of triangular meshes
    3. 9.3. Compression of static meshes
    4. 9.4. Compression of dynamic meshes
    5. 9.5. Conclusion
    6. 9.6. Appendices
    7. 9.7. Bibliography
15. Chapter 10: Hybrid Coding: Encryption-Watermarking-Compression for Medical Information Security
    1. 10.1. Introduction
    2. 10.2. Protection of medical imagery and data
    3. 10.3. Basics of encryption algorithms
    4. 10.4. Medical image encryption
    5. 10.5. Medical image watermarking and encryption
    6. 10.6. Conclusion
    7. 10.7. Bibliography
16. Chapter 11: Transmission of Compressed Medical Data on Fixed and Mobile Networks
    1. 11.1. Introduction
    2. 11.2. Brief overview of the existing applications
    3. 11.3. The fixed and mobile networks
    4. 11.4. Transmission of medical images
    5. 11.5. Conclusion
    6. 11.6. Bibliography
17. Conclusion
18. List of Authors
19. Index