The gradual trend towards digitization of all data, including medical images, and growth of telemedicine has led to the need for developing increasingly efficient ways to store the massive amounts of information. The two opposing factors driving information storage are: minimizing space in memory by compressing file sizes, while maintaining the quality and accuracy upon decompression.
Although there are countless medical imaging storage formats, they can be generally categorized as either: lossy or lossless.
Although there are countless medical imaging storage formats, they can be generally categorized as either: lossy or lossless.