JPIP is a compression streamlining protocol that works with JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

 to produce an image using the least bandwidth required. It can be very useful for medical and environmental awareness purposes, among others, and many implementations of it are currently being produced, including the HiRISE

HiRISE

High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 65 kg , $40 million instrument was built under the direction of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp....

 camera's pictures, among others.

JPIP has the capacity to download only the requested part of a picture, saving bandwidth, computer processing on both ends, and time. It allows for the relatively quick viewing of a large image in low resolution, as well as a higher resolution part of the same image. Using JPIP, it is possible to view large images (1Gigapixel) on relatively light weight hardware such as PDAs. It is likely that programs such as Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

 will in the near future use the JPIP protocol in order to transmit their images.

Healthcare Applications of JPIP

JPIP helps address the growing need to access medical images fast while enabling interoperability in clinical and radiological system. Typical healthcare applications for JPIP streaming include teleradiology, health information exchange, electronic medical records, electronic health records and personal health record

Personal health record

A personal health record or PHR is a health record where health data is curated by an individual user themselves. This stands in contrast with the more widely used electronic medical record which is held by institutions such as a hospital and contains data entered by clinicians or billing data in...

. One of the world's leaders in incorporating JPIP is Canada Health Infoway

Canada Health Infoway

Canada Health Infoway is an independent, federally-funded, not-for-profit organization tasked with accelerating the development of electronic health records across Canada. As a strategic investor, they work with Canadian provinces and territories with the goal of creating an electronic health...

 where they are developing nationwide access to diagnostic imaging in electronic health records.

Interoperability using JPIP

JPIP is a client/server communication protocol defined in Part 9 of the JPEG2000 suite of standards, (ISO/IEC 15444-9). It is a transfer syntax in DICOM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DICOM is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol. The communication protocol is an application protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate between systems...

, adopted in Supplement 106. Some proprietary software incorporates streaming but DICOM supplement 106 stipulates JPIP as the only transfer syntax method by which to stream medical images in a DICOM conformant manner.

Companies or Organizations with Available Implementations/Products

• 2Kan
• Aware
• GICI (developers of CADI Software)
• ITT
• Kakadu
  Kakadu (software)
  Kakadu is a closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard fully in part 1, and partly in parts 2-3. It is developed by David Taubman from University of New South Wales , Australia...
  
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• Sensing Systems
• djakota
• ERDAS
• LEAD Technologies, Inc.