Contextual encoding in uniform and adaptive mesh-based lossless compression of MR images

@article{Srikanth2005ContextualEI,
  title={Contextual encoding in uniform and adaptive mesh-based lossless compression of MR images},
  author={Ryali Srikanth and A. G. Ramakrishnan},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging},
  year={2005},
  volume={24},
  pages={1199-1206}
}
We propose and evaluate a number of novel improvements to the mesh-based coding scheme for 3-D brain magnetic resonance images. This includes: 1) elimination of the clinically irrelevant background leading to meshing of only the brain part of the image; 2) content-based (adaptive) mesh generation using spatial edges and optical flow between two consecutive slices; 3) a simple solution for the aperture problem at the edges, where an accurate estimation of motion vectors is not possible; and 4… 
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