Image Compression Books

The following books contain tutorials on SPIHT.

Wavelet Image and Video Compression , P. N. Topiwala, Editor, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1998.
Introduction to Data Compression , 2nd ed., 3rd ed., by K. Sayood,
Academic Press, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000, 2006.
Wavelet Transforms: Introduction to Theory and Applications by R. M. Rao
and A. S. Bopardikar, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Video Coding: an introduction to standard codecs by M. Ghanbari,The
Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), 1999.
JPEG2000: Image Compression, Fundamentals, Standards, and Practice by
D. S. Taubman and M. W. Marcellin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Data Compression: The Complete Reference by D. Salomon, Springer
Verlag, 2000.
A Guide to Data Compression Methods (Paperback) by D. Salomon,
Springer Verlag, 2002. > W. A. Pearlman and A. Said, Set Partition Coding:
Part I of Set Partition Coding and Image Wavelet Coding
Systems , Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, , Vol. 2, no. 2, pp.
95-180, Now Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, 2008. Please also
view corrections. Also available directly from Now Publishersonline.
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W. A. Pearlman and A. Said, Image Wavelet Coding Systems: Part II of Set
Partition Coding and Image Wavelet Coding Systems , Foundations and
Trends in Signal Processing, , Vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 181-246, Now Publishers,
Delft, The Netherlands, 2008. Also available directly from Now
Publishers online.

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Digital Signal Compression: Principles and Practice, William A. Pearlman
and Amir Said, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Please also take note of
the corrections in the errata document.
This book is a textbook on signal compression suitable for advanced
undergraduates and graduate students and for practioners in the field. It
contains many figures, examples, and practice problems that are often
computer projects. The 156-page problem solutions manual is available to
instructors.

Image Compression Papers

By now there are more than 1500 publications citing the original journal article on
SPIHT (see first paper below). For worked examples of SPIHT coding and some of
our subsequent work on SPIHT compression, please go to the Homepage of W.
Pearlman
The files below, with generic names, *.ps.gz, contain papers in PostScript
format, which have been compressed with gzip, and must be decompressed
with gunzip or WinZip.
File csvt96_sp.pdf
Pre-print of the SPIHT image compression paper: "A New Fast and Efficient
Image Codec Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees," by Amir Said
and William A. Pearlman, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for
Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996. IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society 1998 Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award.
File ip96_sp.pdf
Pre-print of the S+P transform paper: "An Image Multiresolution
Representation for Lossless and Lossy Image Compression," by Amir Said
and William A. Pearlman, first submitted July 1994, and published inIEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, pp. 1303-1310, Sept. 1996. IEEE
Signal Processing Society 1998 Best Paper Award (Image and
Multidimensional Signal Processing Area).
File med_ms.ps.gz
Compressed Postscript of a paper about compression of medical images,
with a comparative evaluation of SPIHT and other methods. "Wavelet
compression of medical images with set partitioning in hierarchical trees,"
by Armando Manduca and Amir Said, presented at the SPIE Symposium on
Medical Imaging, Cambridge, MA, March 1996.

File SpieVcip93.ps.gz
Compressed Postscript of the S+P transform conference paper: "Reversible
Image compression via multiresolution representation and predictive
coding," by Amir Said and William A. Pearlman, presented at the SPIE
VCIP Symposium, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 1993. The last images were
removed to reduce the file size.
Anonymous FTP site is currently offline.

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Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing, 2009. ARTCom '09. International Conference on
Date of Conference: 27-28 Oct. 2009
Author(s): Bharti, P.
U.I.E.T., Panjab Univ., Chandigarh, India
Gupta, S. ; Bhatia, R.
Page(s): 820 - 822
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ABSTRACT
Ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) medical imaging produce human
body pictures in digital form. These medical applications have already been integrated into mobile devices and
are being used by medical personnel in treatment centers, for retrieving and examining patient data and
medical images. Storage and transmission are key issues in such platforms, due to the significant image file
sizes. Wavelet transform has been considered to be a highly efficient technique of image compression resulting
in both lossless and lossy compression of images with great accuracy, enabling its use on medical images. On
the other hand, in some areas in medicine, it may be sufficient to maintain high image quality only in the

region of interest i.e. in diagnostically important regions. This paper proposes a framework for ROI based
compression of medical images using wavelet based compression techniques (i.e. JPEG2000 and SPIHT).
Results are analyzed by conducting the experiments on a number of medical images by taking different region
of interests. The performance is evaluated using various image quality metrics like PSNR, SSIM and
Correlation.