Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images

Hospitals and medical centres produce an increasing amount of digital medical data for health examinations. Fluoroscopy is one of imaging modalities that is produced daily and generates an enormous amount of data over time, requiring a large storage space in addition to the increasing transmission c...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.62712016-01-13T01:22:48Z Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images 2015-07 Arif, Arif Sameh TA1501-1820 Applied optics. Photonics Hospitals and medical centres produce an increasing amount of digital medical data for health examinations. Fluoroscopy is one of imaging modalities that is produced daily and generates an enormous amount of data over time, requiring a large storage space in addition to the increasing transmission costs over the internet and intranet for telemedicine and local applications. The crucial aspect in medical image compression is to maintain all vital diagnostic information without any loss. Therefore, most existing methods employ lossless compression. However, lossy compression is well known to produce higher compression performance. Controlled lossy compression that is near lossless may be employed as diagnosis of images are almost always done exclusively in terms of visual inspection. The main motivation of this study is to achieve high compression performance on Fluoroscopy medical images for the Pharynx and Esophogus without affecting the diagnosis information. Due to the variability in acquisition and image quality, preprocessing step is required to standardize images, making them more compressible. In this work, the preprocessing stage consists of two main phases - the first extracts the Region of Coding (ROC) using a derived general equation; the second employs correlation coefficients to classify the set of images depending on the acquisition view. Three efficient lossless and near lossless image compression approaches are proposed to achieve high compression performance of the Flouroscopy images. 2015-07 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6271/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Faculty of Engineering
institution Multimedia University
collection MMU Institutional Repository
topic TA1501-1820 Applied optics
Photonics
spellingShingle TA1501-1820 Applied optics
Photonics
Arif, Arif Sameh
Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
description Hospitals and medical centres produce an increasing amount of digital medical data for health examinations. Fluoroscopy is one of imaging modalities that is produced daily and generates an enormous amount of data over time, requiring a large storage space in addition to the increasing transmission costs over the internet and intranet for telemedicine and local applications. The crucial aspect in medical image compression is to maintain all vital diagnostic information without any loss. Therefore, most existing methods employ lossless compression. However, lossy compression is well known to produce higher compression performance. Controlled lossy compression that is near lossless may be employed as diagnosis of images are almost always done exclusively in terms of visual inspection. The main motivation of this study is to achieve high compression performance on Fluoroscopy medical images for the Pharynx and Esophogus without affecting the diagnosis information. Due to the variability in acquisition and image quality, preprocessing step is required to standardize images, making them more compressible. In this work, the preprocessing stage consists of two main phases - the first extracts the Region of Coding (ROC) using a derived general equation; the second employs correlation coefficients to classify the set of images depending on the acquisition view. Three efficient lossless and near lossless image compression approaches are proposed to achieve high compression performance of the Flouroscopy images.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level Doctorate
author Arif, Arif Sameh
author_facet Arif, Arif Sameh
author_sort Arif, Arif Sameh
title Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
title_short Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
title_full Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
title_fullStr Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
title_full_unstemmed Lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
title_sort lossless and near lossless compression of pharynx and esophagus in fluoroscopy medical images
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Engineering
publishDate 2015
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