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Volume 8, Issue 2
Reduction of Blocking artifacts in Compressed Medical Images

Jagroop Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Dilbag Singh

J. Info. Comput. Sci. , 8 (2013), pp. 096-102.

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Medical images require large amounts of memory. This calls for image compression (block- based DCT compression) to reduce significantly the amount of data required to represent an image. One of the major drawbacks of the block-based DCT compression methods is that it may result in visible artifacts at block boundaries due to coarse quantization of the coefficients. This paper proposes a new adaptive post- filtering algorithm to remove coding artifacts in block-based DCT compressed medical images. The blocking artifact in the smooth and non-smooth regions are removed by modifying a few DCT coefficients while an edge preserving smoothing filter is applied to the intermediate region. Experimental results illustrating the performance of proposed method on the basis of PSNR, MSSIM, and SF indices are presented and evaluated. Compared with other methods, the proposed one achieves better detail preservation and artifact removal performance with lower computational complexity.
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@Article{JICS-8-096, author = {Jagroop Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Dilbag Singh}, title = {Reduction of Blocking artifacts in Compressed Medical Images}, journal = {Journal of Information and Computing Science}, year = {2024}, volume = {8}, number = {2}, pages = {096--102}, abstract = { Medical images require large amounts of memory. This calls for image compression (block- based DCT compression) to reduce significantly the amount of data required to represent an image. One of the major drawbacks of the block-based DCT compression methods is that it may result in visible artifacts at block boundaries due to coarse quantization of the coefficients. This paper proposes a new adaptive post- filtering algorithm to remove coding artifacts in block-based DCT compressed medical images. The blocking artifact in the smooth and non-smooth regions are removed by modifying a few DCT coefficients while an edge preserving smoothing filter is applied to the intermediate region. Experimental results illustrating the performance of proposed method on the basis of PSNR, MSSIM, and SF indices are presented and evaluated. Compared with other methods, the proposed one achieves better detail preservation and artifact removal performance with lower computational complexity. }, issn = {1746-7659}, doi = {https://doi.org/}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jics/22618.html} }
TY - JOUR T1 - Reduction of Blocking artifacts in Compressed Medical Images AU - Jagroop Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Dilbag Singh JO - Journal of Information and Computing Science VL - 2 SP - 096 EP - 102 PY - 2024 DA - 2024/01 SN - 8 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jics/22618.html KW - Image Compress, DCT. AB - Medical images require large amounts of memory. This calls for image compression (block- based DCT compression) to reduce significantly the amount of data required to represent an image. One of the major drawbacks of the block-based DCT compression methods is that it may result in visible artifacts at block boundaries due to coarse quantization of the coefficients. This paper proposes a new adaptive post- filtering algorithm to remove coding artifacts in block-based DCT compressed medical images. The blocking artifact in the smooth and non-smooth regions are removed by modifying a few DCT coefficients while an edge preserving smoothing filter is applied to the intermediate region. Experimental results illustrating the performance of proposed method on the basis of PSNR, MSSIM, and SF indices are presented and evaluated. Compared with other methods, the proposed one achieves better detail preservation and artifact removal performance with lower computational complexity.
Jagroop Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Dilbag Singh. (2024). Reduction of Blocking artifacts in Compressed Medical Images. Journal of Information and Computing Science. 8 (2). 096-102. doi:
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