OPTIMUM DCT COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Adnan Khashman, Kamil Dimililer

2009

Abstract

Medical imaging requires storage of large quantities of digitized data Efficient storage and transmission of medical images in telemedicine is of utmost importance however. Due to the constrained bandwidth and storage capacity, a medical image must be compressed before transmission or storage. An ideal image compression system must yield high quality compressed images with high compression ratio; this can be achieved using DCT-based image compression, however the contents of the image affects the choice of an optimum compression ratio. In this paper, a neural network is trained to relate the x-ray image contents to their optimum compression ratio. Once trained, the optimum DCT compression ratio of the x-ray image can be chosen upon presenting the image to the network. Experimental results suggest that out proposed system, can be efficiently used to compress x-rays while maintaining high image quality.

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Khashman A. and Dimililer K. (2009). OPTIMUM DCT COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-85-2, pages 91-96. DOI: 10.5220/0001865600910096


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Adnan Khashman and Kamil Dimililer},
title={OPTIMUM DCT COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={91-96},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001865600910096},
isbn={978-989-8111-85-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - OPTIMUM DCT COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8111-85-2
AU - Khashman A.
AU - Dimililer K.
PY - 2009
SP - 91
EP - 96
DO - 10.5220/0001865600910096