TY - GEN
T1 - Quality evaluation of compressed 3D surgical video
AU - Hewage, Chaminda T.E.R.
AU - Appuhami, Harsha D.
AU - Martini, Maria G.
AU - Smith, Ralph
AU - Jourdan, Iain
AU - Rockall, Timothy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/8
Y1 - 2015/1/8
N2 - 3D medical video was forecasted to be one of the groundbreaking 3D video applications. These range from tele-consultation to 3D robotics surgery. Enabling 3D video in e-health applications results in the provision of more natural viewing conditions, improved diagnosis and accurate interventions in surgical procedures. The deployment of 3D video services in healthcare is made possible to some extent by the advanced capturing devices (e.g., 3D endoscopes), recent advances in wireless communication technologies (e.g., LTE-Advanced(LTE-A)) and 3D video display technologies. Remote robotic assisted surgery and surgery training (education for surgeons) can benefit in particular from 3D video technologies due to the added dimension of depth. This paper analyzes the quality of compressed 3D surgical video. Moreover, asymmetric encoding of 3D medical video without compromising the medical quality of experience (M-QoE) is investigated in this paper. The quality of the compressed 3D medical video with the proposed method is evaluated using a comprehensive subjective quality evaluation test involving 12 medical surgeons. The results show a slightly better perception with the proposed asymmetric coding method compared to reference symmetric compression method, however the difference is statistically insignificant.
AB - 3D medical video was forecasted to be one of the groundbreaking 3D video applications. These range from tele-consultation to 3D robotics surgery. Enabling 3D video in e-health applications results in the provision of more natural viewing conditions, improved diagnosis and accurate interventions in surgical procedures. The deployment of 3D video services in healthcare is made possible to some extent by the advanced capturing devices (e.g., 3D endoscopes), recent advances in wireless communication technologies (e.g., LTE-Advanced(LTE-A)) and 3D video display technologies. Remote robotic assisted surgery and surgery training (education for surgeons) can benefit in particular from 3D video technologies due to the added dimension of depth. This paper analyzes the quality of compressed 3D surgical video. Moreover, asymmetric encoding of 3D medical video without compromising the medical quality of experience (M-QoE) is investigated in this paper. The quality of the compressed 3D medical video with the proposed method is evaluated using a comprehensive subjective quality evaluation test involving 12 medical surgeons. The results show a slightly better perception with the proposed asymmetric coding method compared to reference symmetric compression method, however the difference is statistically insignificant.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921724120&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001816
DO - 10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001816
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84921724120
T3 - 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2014
SP - 71
EP - 76
BT - 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 16th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2014
Y2 - 15 October 2014 through 18 October 2014
ER -