Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Harden, James C.

Committee Member

Meyer, Joerg

Committee Member

Philip, Thomas

Date of Degree

5-10-2003

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Computer Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Various biomedical technologies like CT, MRI and PET scanners provide detailed cross-sectional views of the human anatomy. The image information obtained from these scanning devices is typically represented as large data sets whose sizes vary from several hundred megabytes to about one hundred gigabytes. As these data sets cannot be stored on one's local hard drive, SDSC provides a large data repository to store such data sets. These data sets need to be accessed by researchers around the world to collaborate in their research. But the size of these data sets make them difficult to be transmitted over the current network. This thesis presents a 3-D Haar wavelet algorithm which enables these data sets to be transformed into smaller hierarchical representations. These transformed data sets are transmitted over the network and reconstructed to a 3-D volume on the client's side through progressive refinement of the images and 3-D texture mapping techniques.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17918

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