Understanding how Curator manages web images

When accessing IMPAX over the Internet, connection speeds are typically much slower than within the hospital network. To minimize the effect on users, Curator processes images in the image cache, creates Mitra wavelet compressed images (lossless, by default), and stores the wavelet images in the web cache. Wavelet images provide the advantage of partial file transfer, meaning that IMPAX can display a low-resolution view of these images very quickly and can automatically update the display with higher resolution views as they cross the network, until the required resolution of image has been retrieved. The wavelet images can be accessed by both local and remote Clients.