Texture-based medical image compression.

Image processing is one of the most researched areas these days due to the flooding of the internet with an overload of images. The noble medicine industry is not left untouched. It has also suffered with an excess of patient record storage and maintenance. With the advent of automation of the industries in the world, the medicine industry has sought to change and provide a more portable feel to it, leading to the fields of telemedicine and such. Our algorithm comes in handy in such scenarios where large amount of data needs to be transmitted over the network for perusal by another consultant. We aim for a visual quality approach in our algorithm rather than pixel-wise fidelity. We utilize parameters of edges and textures as the basic parameters in our compression algorithm.