Image Compression Using KLT, Wavelets and an Adaptive Mixture of Principal Components Model

  • Authors:
  • Nanda Kambhatla;Simon Haykin;Robert D. Dony

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532;Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada;School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - special issue on applications of neural networks in biomedical image processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we present preliminary results comparing the nature of the errors introduced by the mixture of principal components (MPC) model with a wavelet transform and the Karhunen Loève transform (KLT) for the lossy compression of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. MPC, wavelets and KLT were applied to image blocksin a block transform coding scheme. The MPC model partitions the spaceof image blocks into a set of disjoint classes and computes a separate KLT for each class. In our experiments, though both the wavelet transform and KLT obtained a higher peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) than MPC, according to radiologists, MPC preserved the texture and boundaries of gray and white matter better than the wavelet transform or KLT.