Enhanced centroid technique for compressing sets of similar medical images

Application areas such as medical imaging or satellite imaging often store large collections of similar images. Lossless compression techniques are usually needed in such critical applications. Previous researches have introduced the centroid method, which gets benefit from the inter-image redundancy "the set redundancy". In this paper a new algorithm is proposed as an extension of the centroid method. Experimental results with a set of CT brain images demonstrate the efficiency and superiority of the proposed algorithm in respect to compression ratio