ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing (Nov 2012)

HYBRID COMPRESSION OF CERVICAL IMAGES BY SEGMENTING NUCLEI-CYTOPLASM

  • Y. Jacob Vetha Raj,
  • M. Mohamed Sathik,
  • K. Senthamarai Kannan

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 522 – 525

Abstract

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A hybrid image compression method is proposed by which the Nuclei-Cytoplasm of the image is completely restorable and the background part of the image is restorable with insignificant loss. In Hybrid Compression of Cervical Images by Segmenting Nuclei-Cytoplasm, the image is subjected to binary segmentation to detect Background and Nuclei-Cytoplasm. The image is compressed by standard lossy compression method. The difference between the lossy image and the original image is computed as residue. The residue at the Nuclei-Cytoplasm area is compressed by standard lossless compression method by which the Nuclei-Cytoplasm area is completely restorable. This method gives a low bit rate than the lossless compression methods.

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