Method and apparatus for medical data compression for data processing in a cloud system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorThomas Blum
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Abstract
In a method and a system for processing medical image data in a cloud system, image data acquired at a modality are compressed via an incremental compression and transferred in compressed form to a decompressor of the cloud system. The decompressor relays the decompression result to different processing units for incremental processor in order to provide a result that is then relayed to the modality and/or to additional computer-based instances.
Claims13
A method to process medical image data acquired at an imaging modality serving as a data source, for transfer to a cloud system for processing at the cloud system, said method comprising:
- prior to transferring said image data, incrementally compressing said image data, to produce incrementally compressed image data;
- transferring the incrementally compressed image data from the data source to the cloud system;
- in the cloud system, incrementally decompressing the incrementally compressed image data, to produce decompressed image data;
- processing the decompressed image data in at least one processing unit in the cloud system, thereby generating a processing result;
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- transferring the processing result from the cloud system to the data source or to an additional computer-based entity.
A system to process medical image data acquired at an imaging modality serving as a data source, for transfer to a cloud system for processing at the cloud system, said system comprising:
- a computerized data compressor configured to receive said image data and, prior to transferring said image data, to incrementally compress said image data, to produce incrementally compressed image data;
- a transfer unit configured to communicate with a network to transfer the incrementally compressed image data to the cloud system;
- a computerized data decompressor in the cloud system configured to incrementally decompress the incrementally compressed image data, to produce decompressed image data;
- at least one processing unit in the cloud system configured to process the decompressed image data, thereby generating a processing result;
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- a transfer unit in the cloud system configured to transfer the processing result from the cloud system to the data source or to an additional computer-based entity.
A data compressor comprising:
- a data compression unit;
- said data compression unit comprising an input configured to receive image data from an imaging modality;
- said compression unit being configured to incrementally compress said image data to produce incrementally compressed image data;
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- a transfer unit in communication with said compression unit, said transfer unit being configured to transfer the incrementally compressed image data to a cloud system.
A data decompressor comprising:
- a decompression unit located in a cloud computing system;
- said decompression unit comprising an input configured to receive incrementally compressed image data;
- said data decompression unit being configured to decompress said incrementally compressed image data, to produce decompressed image data;
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- said data decompression unit comprising an output configured to supply said decompressed image data to a processing unit of said cloud system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.