Lossy-to-lossless compression of medical volumetric data using three-dimensional integer wavelet transforms. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We study lossy-to-lossless compression of medical volumetric data using three-dimensional (3-D) integer wavelet transforms. To achieve good lossy coding performance, it is important to have transforms that are unitary. In addition to the lifting approach, we first introduce a general 3-D integer wavelet packet transform structure that allows implicit bit shifting of wavelet coefficients to approximate a 3-D unitary transformation. We then focus on context modeling for efficient arithmetic coding of wavelet coefficients. Two state-of-the-art 3-D wavelet video coding techniques, namely, 3-D set partitioning in hierarchical trees (Kim et al., 2000) and 3-D embedded subband coding with optimal truncation (Xu et al., 2001), are modified and applied to compression of medical volumetric data, achieving the best performance published so far in the literature-both in terms of lossy and lossless compression.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Trans Med Imaging

author list (cited authors)

  • Xiong, Z., Wu, X., Cheng, S., & Hua, J.

citation count

  • 107

complete list of authors

  • Xiong, Zixiang||Wu, Xiaolin||Cheng, Samuel||Hua, Jianping

publication date

  • March 2003