Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression in AWS HealthImaging

Today, HealthImaging launched enhancements that better handle lossy compressed medical imaging data. Some medical images, such as whole slide microscopy, ultrasound, and cardiology, utilize lossy image compression. With this feature launch, HealthImaging better supports lossy encoded data, and helps lower storage costs.

The HealthImaging import process encodes most image frames (pixel data) in the High-Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) lossless format. With this launch, JPEG Baseline Lossy 8-bit, JPEG 2000 lossy, and High-Throughput JPEG 2000 lossy image compression will be persisted without transcoding. This means HealthImaging will store your lossy encoded data more efficiently, and thereby reducing your storage costs

With this launch, HealthImaging has also enhanced support for DICOM binary segmentation objects. Now image frames with Segmentation Type BINARY will be returned in the Explicit Little Endian (ELE) transfer syntax, as most applications expect.

AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With AWS HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while reducing total cost of ownership. To learn more about how HealthImaging import jobs work, see the AWS HealthImaging Developer Guide.

AWS HealthImaging is generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland).