An Efficient Lossless Compression algorithm for Medical images

Abstract

Medical image compression plays a vital role in diagnosis of diseases which allowing manipulation, efficient, transmission and storage of color, binary and grayscale image. Before transmission and storage, a medical image may be required to be compressed. The objective of the study is to develop an efficient and effective technique for digital medical images which alleviates the blocking artifacts from grayscale image while retaining all relevant structures. In this paper, we demonstrate a highly engineered postprocessing filtering approach has been designed to remove blocking effects from medical images at low bit rate. The proposed technique is comprised of three strategies i.e. 1) a threshold valve scheme which is used to capture the pixel vectors containing blocking artifacts. 2) Blocking artifacts measurement techniques. The blocking artifacts are measured by three frequency related modes (low, Moderate and high frequency model). 3)  A directional filter which is used to remove over-smoothing and ringing artifacts near edges of block boundary. The algorithm is tested on digital medical grayscale images from different modalities. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed technique is more efficient on the basis of PSNR-B, MSSIM, and MOS indices than the state-of-the-art methods. The proposed algorithm can be seamlessly applied in area of medical image compression which high transmission efficiency and acceptable image quality can be guaranteed.