HEVC optimizations for medical environments

D. G. Fernández; A. A. Del Barrio; Guillermo Botella; Carlos García; Uwe Meyer-Baese; Anke Meyer-Baese

doi:10.1117/12.2224777

19 May 2016 HEVC optimizations for medical environments

D. G. Fernández, A. A. Del Barrio, Guillermo Botella, Carlos García, Uwe Meyer-Baese, Anke Meyer-Baese

Proceedings Volume 9871, Sensing and Analysis Technologies for Biomedical and Cognitive Applications 2016; 98710B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224777
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

HEVC/H.265 is the most interesting and cutting-edge topic in the world of digital video compression, allowing to reduce by half the required bandwidth in comparison with the previous H.264 standard. Telemedicine services and in general any medical video application can benefit from the video encoding advances. However, the HEVC is computationally expensive to implement. In this paper a method for reducing the HEVC complexity in the medical environment is proposed. The sequences that are typically processed in this context contain several homogeneous regions. Leveraging these regions, it is possible to simplify the HEVC flow while maintaining a high-level quality. In comparison with the HM16.2 standard, the encoding time is reduced up to 75%, with a negligible quality loss. Moreover, the algorithm is straightforward to implement in any hardware platform.

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D. G. Fernández, A. A. Del Barrio, Guillermo Botella, Carlos García, Uwe Meyer-Baese, and Anke Meyer-Baese "HEVC optimizations for medical environments", Proc. SPIE 9871, Sensing and Analysis Technologies for Biomedical and Cognitive Applications 2016, 98710B (19 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224777

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