Abstract
We describe a strategy for the content-based compression of mammograms. In this two-step strategy, the clinically important structures are first identified via a fractal-based segmentation method. Then, a modified version of JPEG2000 is applied in such a way that lossless compression is applied to the extracted structures from the first step, while a lossy compression is applied to the remaining regions. Preliminary results demonstrate that this strategy can achieve high compression ratios (up to 50:1) without compromising the diagnostic quality of the mammograms.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2986-2993 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2004 |
Keywords
- Content-based compression
- Fractal-based segmentation
- JPEG2000
- Mammograms
- Region-of-interest coding