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Multimedia framework to support eHealth applications

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Limited bandwidth resources lead to a number of challenges especially for eHealth applications, which are communicated over IP and wireless networks. These multimedia services include high-resolution videos and have very large file sizes that require a high level of compression to overcome this limitation. Therefore, there is an acute demand for the research community to provide an efficient multimedia framework to encode medical videos with high quality specifically under the conditions of an error-prone environment. Both an affordable delivery framework and effective coding techniques are extremely desirable for the delivery of high-quality eHealth video applications for transmission over heterogeneous networks and devices. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a multimedia framework to support eHealth applications, which has an improved coding scheme that uses an SVC-scalable extension of MPEC-4 AVC/H.264. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves a significant improvement in terms of the PSNR-Y gain and reduces the picture quality degradation caused by artifacts and distortions, compared to the existing scheme.

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The authors extend their appreciation to the Research Center in College of Computer and information Sciences at King Saud University for funding this work through Proposal No.: RC121233.

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    Muhammad Shoaib, Uzair Ahmad & Atif Al-Amri

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Shoaib, M., Ahmad, U. & Al-Amri, A. Multimedia framework to support eHealth applications. Multimed Tools Appl 73, 2081–2101 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1631-5

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