Browsing by Author "Cruz, Luís A. da Silva"
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- Compression of medical images using MRP with bi-directional prediction and histogram packingPublication . Santos, Joao M.; Guarda, Andre F.R.; Cruz, Luís A. da Silva; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sergio M. M. deMedical imaging technology has become essential for the improvement of medical practice. This led to advances in the technology, namely in image sampling resolutions, pixel bit-depth and inter slice resolution. Additionally, common use of medical images, the life expectancy of patients and legal restrictions led to increasing storage costs. Therefore, efficient compression of medical image data is in high demand, for archiving and transmission. In this work we propose to improve the compression efficiency of the Minimum Rate Predictors lossless encoder, by adding bi-directional prediction support and a histogram packing technique. The results show that the proposed method presents a higher compression efficiency than state-of-the-art HEVC encoder. The compression efficiency is improved by 20%, on average, when compared to HEVC and by 46.1% when compared with the original MRP algorithm.
- A method to improve HEVC lossless coding of volumetric medical imagesPublication . F.R. Guarda, André F. R.; Santos, João M.; Cruz, Luís A. da Silva; Assunção, Pedro A. A.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sérgio M. M. deMedical imaging technology and applications are continuously evolving, dealing with images of increasing spatial and temporal resolutions, which enable more accurate processing, feature analysis and medical diagnosis. However, the increase in resolution also requires a growing amount of data to be stored, processed and exchanged or transmitted through networks. Despite the high coding efficiency achieved by the most recent image and video coding standards in lossy compression, they are not well suited for quality-critical medical image compression where either near-lossless or lossless coding is required. In this paper we propose a method to improve lossless coding of volumetric medical images, such as Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography, and medical sequences such as X-ray Angiography images, using the latest standard High Efficiency Video Encoder (HEVC). New pixel-wise prediction techniques are proposed to extend the current HEVC lossless tools, based on Least-Squares Prediction (LSP). Experimental results show a bitrate reduction of over 44%, when compared to DICOM recommended encoders, and 13.8% when compared to standard lossless HEVC, for 8 bpp volumetric images, and over 8% and 4.6%, respectively, for volumetric images using more than 8 bpp.