JPEG Compression in Medical Imaging

Jones, Paul W.; Rabbani, Majid

doi:10.1117/3.367205.ch5

Book: Handbook of Medical Imaging, Volume 3. Display and PACS

Author(s): Paul Jones, Majid Rabbani

Published: 2000

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.367205.ch5

Abstract

The use of digital imaging in medical applications has led to significant improvements in the ability to detect and diagnose health problems. Digital imaging provides the opportunity for creative and innovative processing methods that simply would not be possible with analog systems. The price of this flexibility is the large number of bits needed to represent a digital image. Despite advances in storage and transmission technology, useful and cost-effective systems require methods for reducing the amount of data associated with digital images. The goal of image compression is to find efficient representations in order to minimize the storage capacity and/or transmission times for a given application.