摘要 |
A method of compressing a medical image, including: providing a medical diagnostic image, having associated therewith at least one windowing parameter; automatically selecting a desired compression quality, responsive to the at least one windowing parameter; and compressing the image, using a lossy compression method, such that a decompressed image will have substantially the desired compression quality. Preferably, the at least one windowing parameter is provided by an imaging technician. Preferably, the compression method is a wavelet compression method.
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