MatrixView wins F&S innovation award

PALO ALTO: Frost & Sullivan selected MatrixView Ltd as

the recipient of the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the field of

lossless medical data compression for the inventive adaptive binary

optimization (ABOTM).

This technology enables the compression and decompression of digital data without the loss of diagnostically important information. It also helps enterprise networks achieve optimum real-time performance with their existing network infrastructures.

Each year, this Award is presented to a company that has carried out new research that has resulted in innovations that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. The Award recognizes the quality and depth of a company's research and development program as well as the vision and risk taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.

"The ABOTM achieves increased compression without data losses by following

the repetition coded compression," says Frost & Sullivan research analyst

Preethi Vaidyanathan. "MatrixView has totally changed the method of data

storage and transmission for use in the compression of radiological data

such as X-rays, ECGs, CTs, and MR scans."

ABOTM uses high correlation found in digital content signals and codes

them in appropriate bit-planes to significantly compress data. This could

be followed with any source coder to complete the compression without

loss. This process has helped it address issues of bandwidth shortages, data transfer, and speed of transmission by simplifying the algorithms used in binary coding at both bit and byte levels.

A significant amount of data is lost during the conventional method of

conversion of images from Echocardiograms from the spatial to the

frequency domain. ABOTM not only compresses the image and video files 30

times more than conventional solutions but also eliminates data loss. For

radiology images such as CT and MR, the compression ratio is 10 to 50

percent better than existing technologies. Moreover, ABOTM's algorithm is

less complex, faster, consumes less power, and ensures maximum security by

encrypting the digital content simultaneously during optimization.

"Another drawback with the conventional technology is the use of static

file transmission where the diagnosis can be done only after the full

image is transmitted," observes Vaidyanathan. "Comparatively, ABOTM

technology uses progressive transmission where the first image can be seen

in the first few seconds after which the entire file is seen."

The first image of a digital scan X-ray comes in the first four seconds

and the entire file of 10 MB in five minutes. The doctor can offer a

diagnosis even when only 30 to 40 percent of the data has been

transmitted. This real-time feature of ABOTM will greatly benefit

telemedicine and BPOs involved in medical radiological diagnostics.

The company is also working on enhancing its features by allowing the

users to view and work on the same document simultaneously in any Internet

environment, while at the same time, ensuring additional security and

encryption features."