To Improve Telemedicine Applications by using Hierarchical Lossless Image Compression
Keywords:
AMWT, Contextual Region, Hierarchical Image Coding, MLZC, Multiwavelet.Abstract
The main aim of hierarchical lossless image compression is to improve accuracy, reduce the bit rate and improve the compression efficiency for the storage and transmission of the medical images while maintain an acceptable image quality for diagnosis purpose. The cost and limitation in bandwidth of wireless channels has made compression is necessity in today’s era. In medical images, the contextual region is an area which contains an important information and must be transmitted without distortion. In this paper the selected region of the image is encoded with Adaptive Multiwavelet Transform (AMWT) using Multi-Dimensional Layered Zero Coding (MLZC). Experimental results shows that Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Correlation Coefficient (CC), Mean Structural Similarity Index (MSSIM) performance is high and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) values are low, and moderate Compression Ratio (CR) at high Bits Per Pixel (BPP) when compared to the integer wavelet and multiwavelet transform.
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