IMAGE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR MEDICAL IMAGES: A REVIEW

Abstract

We can see the rapidly increasing use of images in various applications like in automation, security systems, in robotics and in medical treatments. The medical images like Ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contains large volume of data. These medical images produce the human body pictures in digital form and due to rapid growth in technology various mobile equipments has been developed for the medical treatments which uses digital medical images so it is very important to reduce the size of medical images. The efficiency should be very high in medical images because it can cause loss of a life so medical image compression requires negligible information loss. In this paper we have presented various effective algorithms used for compression.