Medical image compression based on vector quantization with variable block sizes in wavelet domain

Authors:
Huiyan Jiang;Zhiyuan Ma;Yang Hu;Benqiang Yang;Libo Zhang
Affiliations:
Software College, Northeastern University and Key Laboratory of Medical Image Computing, Ministry of Education, Shenyang, China;Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Shenyang, China;Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Shenyang, China
Venue:
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience - Special issue on Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Science and Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

An optimized medical image compression algorithm based on wavelet transform and improved vector quantization is introduced. The goal of the proposed method is to maintain the diagnostic-related information of the medical image at a high compression ratio. Wavelet transformation was first applied to the image. For the lowest-frequency subband of wavelet coefficients, a lossless compression method was exploited; for each of the high-frequency subbands, an optimized vector quantization with variable block size was implemented. In the novel vector quantization method, local fractal dimension (LFD) was used to analyze the local complexity of each wavelet coefficients, subband. Then an optimal quadtree method was employed to partition each wavelet coefficients, subband into several sizes of subblocks. After that, a modified K-means approach which is based on energy function was used in the codebook training phase. At last, vector quantization coding was implemented in different types of sub-blocks. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, JPEG, JPEG2000, and fractal coding approach were chosen as contrast algorithms. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the compression performance and can achieve a balance between the compression ratio and the image visual quality.