Lossless Volumetric Medical Image Compression with Progressive Multi-planar Reformatting Using 3-d Dpcm
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In this paper, we propose a novel lossless volumetric medical image compression scheme using three-dimensional differential pulse code modulation (3-D DPCM), which provides an efficient procedure to achieve progressive multi-planar reformatting (MPR) of large 3-D medical data sets. Being separable and commutative in the order of its application, 3-D DPCM provides an opportunity to generate MPR before decompressing the whole volume, unlike the case with other transforms. We argue that the proposed method suits radiology applications better than JPEG-2000 as it improves the diagnose capability and productivity of radiologists by providing progressive MPR, apart from providing a low complexity volumetric compression scheme with compression performance comparable to that of JPEG-2000.
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