Investigation on Coding Method of Dental X-ray Image for Integrated Hospital Information System

Abstract

Recently, medical information system in dental field goes into digital system. In the system, X-ray image can be taken in digital modality and input to the system directly. Consequently, it is easy to combine the image data with alpha-numerical data which are stored in the conventional medical information system. It is useful to manipulate alpha-numerical data and image data simultaneously.
The purpose of this research is to develop a new coding method for dental X-ray image. The method enables to reduce a disk space to store the images and transmit the images through Internet or LAN lightly. I attempt to apply multi-resolution analysis (wavelet transform) to accomplish the purpose. Proposed method achieves low bit-rate compared with conventional method.