"LuraTech, Inc., leader in next generation image and document
solutions, and AMICAS, Inc., leading provider of Web-based
solutions for managing diagnostic images, announced at the
Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) show the integration of
LuraTech's wavelet-based image compression technology, LuraWave,
into amicas.net(sm), a suite of e-services that yields greater
savings, enhanced image access options and other capabilities in a
managed open architecture system."
"AMICAS' software and related services are used to capture,
display, distribute and store more than 3 million patient studies
annually. With the LuraWave's digital imaging technology, AMICAS
will be able to provide hospital systems and physicians globally
with secure, high-quality lossless and wavelet-compressed image
archives."
"With the LuraWave digital image compression technology,
customers using the AMICAS software will be enabled to capture and
securely save, view, and store digitized radiology images in the
LuraWave format. The benefits of using LuraWave in AMICAS
software include: fast transmission of the images, progressive
image loading directly within Internet browsers, option to save
images losslessly to retain high-image resolution for immediate
diagnosis, and real-time decompression of LuraWave images. These
new features will bring significant improvements to hospital
networks with bandwidth constraints in accessing image data from
the Internet or Intranet. The LuraTech partnership with AMICAS
signifies a drive toward using wavelet-based compression techniques
in the development of new clinical tools in the medical
market."