A comparative study of using the LBC format for compressing medical images

The article performs a comparative study between the image compression technique Local Binary Compressed format (LBC) proposed by the authors [11] and the standard image compression techniques used today (BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF). The study is carried out for large medical images that need to be stored for longer periods of time. In the study, the most common types of medical images used are: X-rays and ultrasounds images. The effective representation of image format LBC is proven using an image quality index type, the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM).