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Research progress on lossy compression techniques for medical images
LIU Yu  WANG Qian-nan  NIAN Yong-jian  QIU Ming-guo 

DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2016.06.015.


[Abstract] Medical imaging has been the important basis for the medical diagnosis and treatment. With the resolution of medical imaging devices, the data amount of acquired medical images increases consistently, which creates heavy burden for image storage and transmission and seriously restricts the following application of medical images. The manner of lossy compression can realize the high degree compression for medical images under the constraint of certain image quality, which has been the research focus both at home and abroad. In this paper, the research progress on lossy compression for medical images is summarized, and the basic methods of quality evaluation under the condition of lossy compression are described. Finally, the development trend of lossy compression for medical images is expected.
[Keywords] Medical image;Magnetic resonance imaging;Lossy compression;Region of interest;Quality evaluation

LIU Yu The Second Squad of the 4th Platoon, the 19th Student Battalion, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China

WANG Qian-nan The First Squad of the 5th Platoon, the 19th Student Battalion, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China

NIAN Yong-jian* Department of Medical Images, School of Biomedical Engineering, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China

QIU Ming-guo Department of Medical Images, School of Biomedical Engineering, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China

*Correspondence to: Nian YJ, E-mail: yjnian@126.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This work was part of National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 41201363, 81171866
Received  2016-02-18
Accepted  2016-04-11
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2016.06.015
DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2016.06.015.

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