Compression of bronchoscopy video: Coding usefulness and efficiency assessment

Abstract

This paper aims at quality assessment and control of bronchoscopy video data used for diagnosis and managed in medical information systems. Application of different video coding/decoding methods according to MPEG and JPEG family standards were considered for effective video data storage and communication. Enhanced image sequences preview, analysis and interpretation according to radiological procedures is possible because of improved, flexible, hierarchically ordered data representation. Useful coding or transcoding algorithms were studied, experimentally optimized and verified according to quality preserving criteria based on objective numerical measures, subjectively controlled. Compression schemes suitable for bronchoscopy video were concluded. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.