Lossless coding and visualization of 3‐D medical images with lossy preview capability
Haris Sahinoglou, Sotiris Malassiotis, Michael Gerassimos Strintzis · Bioimaging · 1996
In this paper a combination of lossless and lossy compression techniques is presented for the storage and transmission of 3-D medical images. The lossy version of the data is used for fast preview when browsing through large databases. When only a small region is of interest then the lossless corrections for this region are transmitted. A special structuring of the bit-stream is also adopted to allow visualization directly from the compressed bit-stream.