ENCODING HIGH QUALITY (MEDICAL) IMAGES USING STANDARD LOWER QUALITY (WEB) IMAGE FORMATS

摘要

A system for encoding web accessible high quality medical images (5) includes one or more processors (45)and one or more servers(14). The one or more processors a reprogrammed to divide (54)the high quality medical image into multiple 8 bit files (12)by bit location in each pixel of the high quality medical image (5)and padding bits in each file to total 8 bits where the divided number of bits from the high quality medical is less than 8 bits. The one or more processors compress (56) each 8 bit file. The one or more servers (14) are configured to send the compressed files in response to a hyper text transport protocol(HTTP) request for the high quality medical image (5).