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Objective video quality measure for application to tele-echocardiography

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Real-time tele-echocardiography is widely used to remotely diagnose or exclude congenital heart defects. Cost effective technical implementation is realised using low-bandwidth transmission systems and lossy compression (videoconferencing) schemes. In our study, DICOM video sequences were converted to common multimedia formats, which were then, compressed using three lossy compression algorithms. We then applied a digital (multimedia) video quality metric (VQM) to determine objectively a value for degradation due to compression. Three levels of compression were simulated by varying system bandwidth and compared to a subjective assessment of video clip quality by three paediatric cardiologists with more than 5 years of experience.

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  1. Clinical Engineering, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

    Peter Thomas Moore

  2. Medical Physics, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

    Neil O’Hare

  3. Cardiology, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

    Kevin P. Walsh & Neil Ward

  4. Anaesthetic Department, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

    Niamh Conlon

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Moore, P.T., O’Hare, N., Walsh, K.P. et al. Objective video quality measure for application to tele-echocardiography. Med Biol Eng Comput 46, 807–813 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-008-0364-5

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