A-TECH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DHP14-001
A-TECH CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,982
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Health Program
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- DHP14-001
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NM
- Period
- 2014-11-17 → 2015-06-16
Description
DHP is seeking new image compression technologies that will retain diagnostic quality and reduce the burden of digital medical image transmission on the military?s tactical networks. ATA is proposing to tailor the latest state-of-the-art commercial image compression algorithm, the Main Still Picture Profile of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, for medical imagery. HEVC has been shown to exceed the compression performance of existing compression algorithms commonly used for medical imagery by 44%. With this considerable performance gain as a starting point, ATA will tailor the HEVC image compression algorithm for medical imagery to achieve a 30:1 compression ratio while retaining diagnostic quality. ATA?s innovative Medical Imagery Tailored HEVC (MITH) CODEC will be a sound entropic compression algorithm with built-in quality control and image enhancement to ensure diagnostic quality while maximizing compression. In addition, ATA?s innovative compression solution will include novel features to further optimize the compression of medical imagery in terms of both compression ratio and quality. Quality control during compression will measure and control the quality to ensure that a user-specified quality level is maintained. Image enhancement during decompression will