The Current Role of Image Compression Standards in Medical Imaging
Feng Liu,
Miguel Hernandez-Cabronero,
Victor Sanchez,
Michael W. Marcellin,
Ali Bilgin
Affiliations
Feng Liu
College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Haihe Education Park, 38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, China
Miguel Hernandez-Cabronero
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1230 E. Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Victor Sanchez
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Michael W. Marcellin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1230 E. Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Ali Bilgin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1230 E. Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
With the increasing utilization of medical imaging in clinical practice and the growing dimensions of data volumes generated by various medical imaging modalities, the distribution, storage, and management of digital medical image data sets requires data compression. Over the past few decades, several image compression standards have been proposed by international standardization organizations. This paper discusses the current status of these image compression standards in medical imaging applications together with some of the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the use of compression in medical settings.
