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The viewing of radiological images on workstations has peculiarities that must be taken into account in the design of a compression technique. The images may be manipulated on a workstation to change the contrast, to change the center of the brightness levels that are viewed, and even to invert the images. Because of the possible consequences of losing information in a medical application, bit-preserving compression is used for the images used for diagnosis. However, for archiving, the images may be compressed to 10% of their original size. A compression technique based on the discrete cosine transform takes the viewing factors into account by compressing the changes in the local brightness levels. The compression technique is a variation of the Consultive Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy Joint Photograph Experts Group compression that suppresses the blocking of the discrete cosine transform except in areas of very high contrast.
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Reprinted with permission from Medical Imaging VI: Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 1992.
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Wilson, D.L. Compressed radiological images and workstation viewing. J Digit Imaging 5, 168–175 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03167766
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03167766