Learning based Coding for Medical Image Compression

Abstract

The area of Image processing has emerged with different coding approaches, and applications which are ranging from fundamental image compression model to high quality applications. The advancement of image processing, has given the advantage of automation in various image coding applications, among which medical image processing is one of the prime area. Medical diagnosis has always remained a time taking and sensitive approach for accurate medical treatment. Towards improving these issues, automation systems have been developed. In the process of automation, the images are processed and passed to a remote processing unit for processing and decision making. It is observed that, images are coded for compression to minimize the processing and computational overhead. However, the issue of compressing data over accuracy always remains a challenge. Thus, for an optimization in image compression, there is a need for compression through the reduction of non-relevant coefficients in medical images. The proposed image compression model helped in developing a coding technique to attain accurate compression by retaining image precision with lower computational overhead in clinical image coding. Towards making the image compression more efficient, this research work introduces an approach of image compression based on learning coding. This research achieves superior results in terms of Compression rate, Encoding time, Decoding time, Total processing time and Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR).