Compression of Biomedical Images and Signals

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Relevance of Biomedical Data Compression

Jean-Yves TANGUY, Pierre JALLET, Christel LE BOZEC and Guy FRIJA

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The management of digital data using PACS

1.2.1. Usefulness of PACS

1.2.2. The limitations of installing a PACS

1.3. The increasing quantities of digital data

1.3.1. An example from radiology

1.3.2. An example from anatomic pathology

1.3.3. An example from cardiology with ECG

1.3.4. Increases in the number of explorative examinations

1.4. Legal and practical matters

1.5. The role of data compression

1.6. Diagnostic quality

1.6.1. Evaluation

1.6.2. Reticence

1.7. Conclusion

1.8. Bibliography

Chapter 2. State of the Art of Compression Methods

Atilla BASKURT

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Outline of a generic compression technique

2.2.1. Reducing redundancy

2.2.2. Quantizing the decorrelated information

2.2.3. Coding the quantized values

2.2.4. Compression ratio, quality evaluation

2.3. Compression of still images

2.3.1. JPEG standard

2.3.1.1. Why use DCT?

2.3.1.2. Quantization

2.3.1.3. Coding

2.3.1.4. Compression of still color images with JPEG

2.3.1.5. JPEG standard: conclusion

2.3.2. JPEG 2000 standard

2.3.2.1. Wavelet transform

2.3.2.2. Decomposition of images with the wavelet transform

2.3.2.3. Quantization and coding of subbands

2.3.2.4. Wavelet-based compression methods, serving as references

2.3.2.5. JPEG 2000 standard

2.4. The compression of image sequences

2.4.1. DCT-based video compression scheme

2.4.2. A history of ...