Efficient Lossless Compression of 4-D Medical Images Based on the Advanced Video Coding Scheme

Author

Sanchez, Victor ; Nasiopoulos, Panos ; Abugharbieh, Rafeef

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

446

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient lossless compression method for 4-D medical images based on the advanced video coding scheme (H.264/AVC). The proposed method efficiently reduces data redundancies in all four dimensions by recursively applying multiframe motion compensation. Performance evaluations on real 4-D medical images of varying modalities including functional magnetic resonance show an improvement in compression efficiency of up to three times that of other state-of-the-art compression methods such as 3D-JPEG2000.

Keywords

data compression; medical image processing; motion compensation; video coding; 3D-JPEG2000; 4-D medical images; JPEG2000; advanced video coding scheme; efficient lossless compression method; functional magnetic resonance; multiframe motion compensation; standard H.264/AVC; 3D-JPEG2000; 4-D medical images; 4D medical images; H.264/AVC; lossless compression; Computer Graphics; Data Compression; Image Enhancement; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Video Recording;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITB.2007.911307

Filename

4378202