Medical image compression with lossless regions of interest
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Many classes of images contain some spatial regions which are more important than other regions. Compression methods which are capable of delivering higher reconstruction quality for the important parts are attractive in this situation. For medical images, only a small portion of the image might be diagnostically useful, but the cost of a wrong interpretation is high. Algorithms which deliver lossless compression within the regions of interest, and lossy compression elsewhere in the image, might be the key to providing e cient and accurate image coding to the medical community. We present and compare several new algorithms for lossless region-of-interest (ROI) compression. One is based on lossless coding with the S-transform, and two are based on lossy wavelet zerotree coding together with either pixel-domain or transform-domain coding of the regional residual. We survey previous methods for region-based coding of medical images. Abstract Un bon nombre d'images contiennent des r egions dans l'espace qui sont plus importantes que d'autres. Les m ethodes de compression qui sont capables de restituer la meilleure qualit e de reconstruction pour ces parties importantes deviennent alors tr es int eressantes. Dans le cas des images m edicales, seulement une seule portion d'image peut être utile pour etablir un diagnostic, mais le cout d'une mauvaise interpr etation peut être tr es elev e. Les algorithmes qui e ectuent une compression sans perte dans les r egions int eressantes et une compression avec pertes partout ailleurs, pourraient être la solution pour fournir un codage d'image e cace et pr ecis pour le domaine m edical. Nous pr esentons et comparons plusieurs algorithmes pour la compression sans perte des r egions d'interet (ROI). L'un est bas e sur le codage sans perte avec la transformation en S, et deux autres sont bas es sur le codage avec pertes (ondelettes "zerotree"); parmi ces 2 derniers, en codant les residus par r egion, l'un fonctionne dans le domaine des pixels, l'autre dans le domaine de la transform e par ondelette. Nous balayons rapidement les methodes deja publi ees pour le codage bas e sur le principe de r egions. 2
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Signal Processing
دوره 59 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997