Objective Quality Metric Design for Wireless Image and Video Communication: Ensuring Quality in Lossless Image Compression for Medical and Satellite Imaging

Abstract

Lossless image compression is needed for applications that cannot tolerate any degradation of original imagery data, e.g., medical applications such as mammography, angiography, and x-rays. It is essential that the decompressed image does not contain any degradation in quality, since it could lead to misdiagnosis and health injury. Satellite or geographical map images are another case where distortion caused by compression cannot be tolerated.