JPEG XS is known for low latency—but its wavelet design enables more: from one compressed stream, a receiver can independently decode full 4K, an HD layer, or a cropped region. This scalability fundamentally changes video distribution.

To guarantee perfect management of the real-time transfer of video and medical metadata between multiple locations, a new DICOM-RTV communication service standard has been developed. JPEG XS can be used to ease its implementation over 1GbE and 10GbE networks as well as over 60Ghz wireless systems.

The new high-performance lightweight compression standard, JPEG XS, offers many advantages for use in the operating room during surgery for zero latency video transmission. Here are some reasons why JPEG XS can be useful in this context.