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High Performance Digital Medical Data Link Technology

Award Information
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Branch: National Institutes of Health
Contract: 2R44LM006892-02A1
Agency Tracking Number: LM006892
Amount: $0.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2003
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
20600 GRAMERCY PLACE, BLDG. 100
TORRANCE, CA 90501
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 FREDDIE LIN
 (310) 320-3088
Business Contact
 GORDON DREW
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: GDREW@POC.COM
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):
Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Soft Computing Hypercompression Interactive Lossless and Lossy (SCHILL, "skill") system for digital clinical imagery - retinal imaging for diabetes, x-ray mammography for breast cancer, CT for lung cancer, and MRI for prostate cancer. SCHILL will be a valuable tool for the National Library of Medicine and medical informatics. POC's SCHILL system will be compatible with security mechanisms and protocols that protect medical imaging data traveling over the Internet. In Phase I, POC completed the preliminary prototype development of a compression engine that demonstrated 10:1 perceptually lossless compression, increasing the bandwidth-distance product of a copper line from 10 to 100 Mbps/km, and successfully performed a series of tests as a clinical imagery evaluation in an engineering setting. In Phase II, POC will develop an optimized SCHILL system that will include interfaces and a video encoder IC card for >20:1 or higher perceptually lossless compression, such remaining elements as the PC workstation and graphics card will be COTS components. In Phase II, a thorough clinical evaluation of the SCHILL system will be performed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and a network testbed evaluation will be conducted at Broadata Communications, Inc.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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