An Efficient Segmentation-based Wavelet Compression Method for MR Image

MR 영상을 위한 효율적인 영역분할기반 웨이블렛 압축기법

  • 문남수 (서울대학교 전기공학과 뉴미디어공동연구소) ;
  • 이승준 ;
  • 송준석 (서울대학교 전기공학과 뉴미디어공동연구소) ;
  • 김종효 (서울대학교 의과대학 방사선과학교실) ;
  • 이충웅 (서울대학교 전기공학과 뉴미디어공동연구소)
  • Published : 1997.12.01

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a coding method to improve compression efficiency for MR image. This can be achieved by combining coding scheme and segmentation scheme which removes noisy background region, which is meaningless for diagnosis in the MR image. In segmentation algoritm, we use full-resolution wavelet transform to extract features of regions in image and Kohonen self-organizing map to classify the features. The subsequent wavelet coder encodes only diagnostically significant foreground regions refering to segmentation map. Our proposed algorithm provides about 15% of bit rate reduction when compared with the same coder which is not combined with segmentation scheme. And the proposed scheme shows better reconstructed image quality than JPEG at the same compression ratio.

본 논문에서는 일반적으로 잡음이 있는 MR 영상의 배경 영역을 영역분활 알고리듬으로 제거하고 이영역분할의 정보를 손실 부호화에 이용함으로써 데이터의 압축 효율을 높이는 방법을 제안한다. 영역분할 알고리듬은 여역의특성 추출을 위해 전해상도 웨이블렛 변화(full-resolution wavelet transform)을 이용하며, 얻은 특성등의 분류를 위해 Kohonen self-organizing map을 사용한다. 웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 부호기에서는 영역분활 결과 진단에 의미없는 부분으로 판단된 영역은 부호화 하지 않음으로써 압축효율을 향상시킨다. 제안한 알고리듬으로 MR영상들을 부호화한 결과, 영역분할 정보를 이용하지 않을 경우보다 평균적으로 약 15%정도의 비트율의 절약을 가져올 수 있었으며, 같은 압축률일 경우에는 복원된 영상이 JPEG에서보다 좋은 화질을 나타내었다.

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