Title
Compression of medical volumetric datasets: physical and psychovisual performance comparison of the emerging JP3D standard and JPEG2000
Abstract
The size of medical data has increased significantly over the last few years. This poses severe problems for the rapid transmission of medical data across the hospital network resulting into longer access times of the images. Also long-term storage of data becomes more and more a problem. In an attempt to overcome the increasing data size often lossless or lossy compression algorithms are being used. This paper compares the existing JPEG2000 compression algorithm and the new emerging JP3D standard for compression of volumetric datasets. The main benefit of JP3D is that this algorithm truly is a 3D compression algorithm that exploits correlation not only within but also in between slices of a dataset. We evaluate both lossless and lossy modes of these algorithms. As a first step we perform an objective evaluation. Using RMSE and PSNR metrics we determine which compression algorithm performs best and this for multiple compression ratios and for several clinically relevant medical datasets. It is well known that RMSE and PSNR often do not correlate well with subjectively perceived image quality. Therefore we also perform a psycho visual analysis by means of a numerical observer. With this observer model we analyze how compression artifacts actually are perceived by a human observer. Results show superior performance of the new JP3D algorithm compared to the existing JPEG2000 algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1117/12.707629
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
image compression,image quality,observer,psycho visual,JPEG2000,JP3D,volumetric dataset
Data mining,Data compression ratio,Compression artifact,Lossy compression,Computer science,Compression ratio,JPEG 2000,Data compression,Image compression,Lossless compression
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6512
0277-786X
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.69
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tom Kimpe1226.11
Tim Bruylants2292.87
Yuri Sneyders361.02
Rudi Deklerck413112.63
Peter Schelkens555363.43