Comment by tokyovigilante

15 hours ago

This is really a job for JPEG-XL, which supports decode of portions of larger images and has recently been added to the DICOM standard.

No. Jpg conpression sucks. Medical data should not be compressed loosely. PNG and TIFF for the win

  • Yes i am referring to lossless compression, and JPEG-XL also supports progressive lossless decoding. It also supports the 12 and 16-bit colour depths required for CT and DR.

  • The original JPEG supports a lossless mode.

    JPEG-LL refers to the lossless mode of the original JPEG standard (ISO/IEC 10918-1 or ITU-T T.81), also known as JPEG Lossless, and not to be confused with JPEG-LS (ISO/IEC 14495-1, Transfer Syntax 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.80), which offers better ratios and speed via LOCO-I algorithm. JPEG-LL is older and less efficient yet more widely implemented in legacy systems.

    The lossless mode in JPEG-XL is superior to all of those.