JPEG 2000 in Medical Applications

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DPID: 1207DOI: 10.62891/d2b270b0Published:

Abstract

The DICOM Working Group 4 (compression group) has approved in November 2001 the use of JPEG 2000 compression as part of the DICOM standard. This document describes how this wavelet transform-based image compression algorithms is now integrated via GDCM and OpenJPEG in the Insight Toolkit ITK.