Progressive lossless compression of medical images

This paper describes a lossless compression method for medical images that produces an embedded bit-stream, allowing progressive lossy-to-lossless decoding with L-infinity oriented rate-distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed technique produces better average lossless compression results than several other compression methods, including JPEG2000, JPEG-LS and JBIG, in a publicly available medical image database containing images from several modalities.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICASSP
• Authors: Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves
• Keywords: ICASSP 2009, L-infinity Oriented Rate-distortion, Lossless Compression, Lossless Compression Method, Signal Processing