Near-lossless compression of medical images
This paper studies the characteristic properties of a specific class of near-lossless image compression schemes which consists of a lossless coder followed by a uniform scalar quantizer. Three specific instances of such schemes are investigated; namely, differential pulse code modulation, hierarchical interpolation, and two-dimensional space-varying multiplicative autoregressive coders. The compression gains attainable with such schemes are studied and results of experiments conducted on several medical images are presented.