neonatal unit; 18 of these infants had been born outside the hospital. While the overall survival rate was 47%, out of 17 normally formed infants born at 23-25 weeks' gestation only 2 (12%) survived. Both are so far neurodevelopmentally normal but one has severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia necessitating frequent admissions to hospital. The survival rate of 12% is in keeping with that of Professo...

This document is intended for people who want to “be aware” of some of the mechanisms underlying the JPEG2000 image compression standard [2]. While writing this tutorial my objective was to give to the reader the feeling of what goes on when compressing images with JPEG2000 . Hence, this tutorial should be regarded as introductory material which requires further reading to reach a deeper unders...

In this paper, we investigate the error resilience properties of JPEG2000. Through a careful analysis of the structure of JPEG2000 codestreams, we identify the dependencies among coding passes of a codeblock. In our analysis, we consider the effects of mode variations provided by the standard for low-memory, low-complexity implementations. The proposed methods are derived using the existing dep...

This manual is only partially complete and is a work in progress. A completed manual will be available by January 1,2000. Cluster and TreeView are Y2K Compliant because they are oblivious of date and time.

For the first time, a complete wireless and mobile emergency TeleOrthoPaedics system with field trials and expert opinion is presented. The system enables doctors in a remote area to obtain a second opinion from doctors in the hospital using secured wireless telecommunication networks. Doctors can exchange securely medical images and video as well as other important data, and thus perform remot...

This work describes FSVC (Fully Scalable Video Codec), a scalable video compression system which is able to generate temporal-, spatialand quality-scalable video streams. FSVC is very suitable for video-on-demand applications where a single version of the compressed video sequence is used. A video server can provide video streams to several clients with different visualization and band-width re...