Lossless wavelet compression for telemammography

Transmission of mammographic images in real time and of sufficient accuracy to render accurate diagnosis is under demand. This requires efficient lossless image compression schemes. Image compression has been a major research area for the past few decades despite the massive growth in data storage and transmission speeds. Moreover, wavelets have become the cutting edge techniques in image compression. Thus the work presented in this paper is to address some of the questions. Several types of wavelets are utilized to identify the best wavelet to deliver a lossless compression scheme for mammographic images. Compression results for different mammograms are presented.