Comparative Evaluation of Lossless Image Compression Techniques on Mammograms
George C. Anastassopoulos, Evy Karavatselou, Dimitrios K. Lymberopoulos, G. Panayotakis · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1996
Image compression has an increasing role in modern medical imaging affecting the preservation of the diagnostic information. In this paper a comparative evaluation of lossless techniques was performed by means of both subjective and objective criteria. Upon X-ray breast and breast phantom images (mammograms) the Lempel Ziv technique has provided the best performance results. Phantom images could be considered as objective reference images for the classification of image compression techniques and for the operational design of Medical Images Communication Systems.