Patent ID: 7996495
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: G16H,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging system, comprising: a server that stores medical image information and transmits the medical image information in a plurality of transmission modes, wherein one transmission mode is a native file format, and each of a remaining transmission modes of the plurality of transmission modes comprise a different compression technique; a network adapted to transmit the medical image information from the server; a viewing workstation operatively coupled with the network, the viewing workstation comprising a bandwidth measurement system that initiates a transfer of medical image information from the server to the viewing workstation by estimating an available bandwidth for the transfer of medical image information from the server to the viewing workstation; wherein the viewing workstation receives the estimate of the available bandwidth from the bandwidth measurement system and selects a transmission mode from the plurality of transmission modes, the plurality of transmission modes organized in a hierarchy of transmission modes, each of the transmission modes of the plurality being associated with a threshold bandwidth value, and the viewing workstation selects the transmission mode from the plurality of transmission modes by comparing the estimate of the available bandwidth to a plurality of threshold bandwidth values; wherein the viewing workstation requests transmission of the medical image information from the server and the viewing workstation requests the selected transmission mode for a transmission of the medical image information from the server; wherein if the selected transmission mode is one of the remaining transmission modes, the server compresses the medical image information in accordance with the compression technique of the requested transmission mode, and transmits the medical image information to the viewing workstation.