SBIR/STTR Research Award
Medical Imagery Tailored HEVC (MITH)
Award amount
$149,982Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Health Agency
- Recipient company
- APPLIED TECHNOLOGY ASSOC., INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-11-17
- Contract end date
- 2015-06-16
- UEI
- JBMJLX7MGMN5
- Solicitation number
- 2014.1
- Topic code
- DHP14-001
Research abstract
DHP is seeking new image compression technologies that will retain diagnostic quality and reduce the burden of digital medical image transmission on the military?s tactical networks. ATA is proposing to tailor the latest state-of-the-art commercial image compression algorithm, the Main Still Picture Profile of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, for medical imagery. HEVC has been shown to exceed the compression performance of existing compression algorithms commonly used for medical imagery by 44%. With this considerable performance gain as a starting point, ATA will tailor the HEVC image compression algorithm for medical imagery to achieve a 30:1 compression ratio while retaining diagnostic quality. ATA?s innovative Medical Imagery Tailored HEVC (MITH) CODEC will be a sound entropic compression algorithm with built-in quality control and image enhancement to ensure diagnostic quality while maximizing compression. In addition, ATA?s innovative compression solution will include novel features to further optimize the compression of medical imagery in terms of both compression ratio and quality. Quality control during compression will measure and control the quality to ensure that a user-specified quality level is maintained. Image enhancement during decompression will
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Sparse Information Orbit Estimation for Proliferated LEO
- Modular Element-level Digital Communication Array (MEDCA)
- High Bandwidth Fast Steering Mirror (HIFSM)
- Low-Cost, High-Bandwidth Fast Steering Mirror (FSM)
- Innovative CubeSat Payloads for USSOCOM Space Missions
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- V-CRAMMIT: Video-Compression using Robust, Adaptive, Multiple Methods and Innovative Techniques
- CRAMMIT: Comprehensive, Robust, Adaptive Multi-Modality Image Compression Technique
- Medical Imagery Tailored HEVC (MITH)
- Reducing the Burden on Military Tactical Networks by Lowering the Impact of Digital Medical Image Transmissions
- CRAMMIT: Comprehensive, Robust, Adaptive Multi-Modality Image Compression Technique
Research funding history
121 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1984–2020). Reported award amounts total $40,089,296. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation