Comparison of Medical Images Compression Techniques

Abstract

The medical images are very essential for the treatment of various health related diseases. The medical images incorporate images of the parts of human body by the use of numerous techniques. The specialist is able to treat the patient and diagnose his disease after careful examination of such images. The number of  medical images is increasing day by day so it is really exorbitant to store these large sized images. It has become crucial to compress medical images before storing or sharing them across the networks. This paper compares the various looseless and loosy techniques of medical image compression. These techniques also prove helpful to remove data which is redundant and not pertinent.