Title

Space-variant preprocessing for transform-based medical image compression

Date of Completion

January 1990

Keywords

Engineering, Biomedical|Biophysics, General|Computer Science

Degree

Ph.D.

Abstract

Space-variant preprocessing combines the best of space and transform domain compression techniques so that energy packing efficiency can be higher than by conventional transform techniques. The fast Cas-Cas transform (FCCT) provides improved speed of computation as a transform method. A new symmetrical bit allocation table method is presented to compress efficiently all full frame transformed coefficients. The preprocessing approach combined with the Cas-Cas transform and the new symmetrical bit allocation table method yields improved performance over conventional methods when applied to modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI), Ultrasound, and plain film X-ray. Overall space-variant preprocessing was found to significantly improve all transform based compression schemes tested, and provided around 10:1 compression ratios with no data loss other than quantization errors. ^

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