Application of strong zerotrees to compression of correlated MRI image sets

摘要

It is known that gainful interframe compression of magnetic resonance(MR) image set is quite difficult problem. Only few authors reported gain in performance of compressors like that comparing to separate compression of every MR image from the set (intraframe compression). Known reasons of such a situation are significant noise in MR images and presence of only low frequency correlations in images of the set. Recently we suggested new method of correlated image set compression based on Karhunen-Loeve(KL) transform and special EZW compression scheme with strong zerotrees(KLSEZW). KLSEZW algorithm showed good results in compression of video sequences with low and middle motion even without motion compensation. The paper presents successful application of the basic method and its modification to interframe MR image compression problem.