The advantages of digitizing medical radiographs are twofold. First, they can be transmitted via networks, second, they may be archived on appropriate storage devices. Modern equipment for medical imaging already provides digital images, therefore post-digitization can be discarded. Depending on medical investigation the amount of image data to be stored can be very large. As a consequence digi...

Delivering of medical image content to mobile/embedded devices with low storage and processing capabilities and low resolution displays is a challenging, but important task for achieving ubiquitous computing in modern hospital environments. The common approaches in industry and technical literature employ JPEG2000 compression and image streaming. Beside image compression, JPEG2000 facilitates i...

Image set compression refers to compression of image sets like photo album, medical image sets, and satellite image sets. The use of digital images has increased drastically in the last decade. Hence, the field of image set compression has become far more important. Several methods for compressing image sets have been proposed in the literature. These range from simple approaches which only use...

Recent advances in digital technology have caused a huge increase in the use of 3D medical image data. In order to cope with large storage and transmission requirements, data compression is necessary. Although lossy techniques achieve higher compression ratios than lossless techniques, the latter are sometimes required, e.g., in medical environments. There exist a lot of lossless image compress...