Full-frame compression of discrete wavelet and cosine transforms

Shih-Chung Benedict Lo; Huai Li; Brian Krasner; Matthew T. Freedman M.D.; Seong Ki Mun

doi:10.1117/12.207613

27 April 1995 Full-frame compression of discrete wavelet and cosine transforms

Shih-Chung Benedict Lo, Huai Li, Brian Krasner, Matthew T. Freedman M.D., Seong Ki Mun

Proceedings Volume 2431, Medical Imaging 1995: Image Display; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.207613
Event: Medical Imaging 1995, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

At the foreground of computerized radiology and the filmless hospital are the possibilities for easy image retrieval, efficient storage, and rapid image communication. This paper represents the authors' continuous efforts in compression research on full-frame discrete wavelet (FFDWT) and full-frame discrete cosine transforms (FFDCT) for medical image compression. Prior to the coding, it is important to evaluate the global entropy in the decomposed space. It is because of the minimum entropy, that a maximum compression efficiency can be achieved. In this study, each image was split into the top three most significant bit (MSB) and the remaining remapped least significant bit (RLSB) images. The 3MSB image was compressed by an error-free contour coding and received an average of 0.1 bit/pixel. The RLSB image was either transformed to a multi-channel wavelet or the cosine transform domain for entropy evaluation. Ten x-ray chest radiographs and ten mammograms were randomly selected from our clinical database and were used for the study. Our results indicated that the coding scheme in the FFDCT domain performed better than in FFDWT domain for high-resolution digital chest radiographs and mammograms. From this study, we found that decomposition efficiency in the DCT domain for relatively smooth images is higher than that in the DWT. However, both schemes worked just as well for low resolution digital images. We also found that the image characteristics of the `Lena' image commonly used in the compression literature are very different from those of radiological images. The compression outcome of the radiological images can not be extrapolated from the compression result based on the `Lena.'

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Shih-Chung Benedict Lo, Huai Li, Brian Krasner, Matthew T. Freedman M.D., and Seong Ki Mun "Full-frame compression of discrete wavelet and cosine transforms", Proc. SPIE 2431, Medical Imaging 1995: Image Display, (27 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.207613

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