@article{MAKHILLAJIT20141355826, title = {Performance Analysis of Hybrid Lossless Compression for MRI Brain Images}, journal = {Asian Journal of Information Technology}, volume = {13}, number = {5}, pages = {260-266}, year = {2014}, issn = {1682-3915}, doi = {ajit.2014.260.266}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1682-3915&doi=ajit.2014.260.266}, author = {D.,I. Jacob and}, keywords = {:Medical diagnostic imaging,lossless image compression,medical images,JPEG-LS,JPEG2000,lossless hybrid,near-lossless medical image compression,data compression}, abstract = {Medical image compression plays a vital role in the medical field where the high quality medical images require extensive storage capacity. Researchers propose an efficient method for storing MRI brain images with a reduced storage capacity at a lesser execution time. Researchers propose a new lossless compression scheme based on Spatial Fuzzy C-Mean algorithm. The MRI brain image after skull stripping is denoised using curvelet transform and segmented into white, gray and Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) regions using spatial fuzzy. Each segmented region is then compressed using the proposed compression technique. The proposed method achieved a high compression ratio (78%) and also provides an enhanced image quality after decompression.} }