Title
Investigation of the Impact of Compression on the Perceptional Quality of Laparoscopic Videos
Abstract
In recent years it has become common practice to archive video recordings of laparoscopic surgeries for documentation purposes and for retrospective review. Typically, the videos are captured in High Definition (HD) format but encoded with legacy coding standards like MPEG-2 requiring an enormous storage capacity. In this paper we present the results of a subjective quality assessment study with 37 medical experts. We identify appropriate encoding configurations for the H.264 AVC coding standard to guarantee a visually loss less quality with a significant bitrate reduction. Further, we show that it is not necessary to capture the highest possible quality for documentation and retrospective analysis. A lower technical quality with a substantially lower bitrate still provides sufficient semantic quality. We finally present basic recommendations for an efficient encoding strategy with an appropriate tradeoff between visual quality and bitrate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CBMS.2014.58
CBMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
data compression,high definition video,image capture,medical image processing,surgery,video coding,H.264/AVC coding standard,HD format,MPEG-2,bitrate reduction,documentation analysis,high-definition format,laparoscopic surgeries,laparoscopic video compression,legacy coding standards,perceptional quality,retrospective analysis,semantic quality,storage capacity,subjective quality assessment,technical quality,video capture,video encoding configurations,video recording archiving,visual quality,visually lossless quality
Computer vision,Computer science,Multiview Video Coding,Subjective video quality,PEVQ,Coding (social sciences),Smacker video,Artificial intelligence,Documentation,Video quality,Multimedia,Scalable Video Coding
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2372-9198
10
0.67
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernd Münzer19814.94
Klaus Schoeffmann250963.01
László Böszörményi348566.44
J. F. Smulders4100.67
Jack J. Jakimowicz5100.67