Adaptive vector quantization of MR images using online k-means algorithm

Azad Shademan; Mohammad Amin Zia

doi:10.1117/12.449776

7 December 2001 Adaptive vector quantization of MR images using online k-means algorithm

Azad Shademan, Mohammad Amin Zia

Proceedings Volume 4472, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIV; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449776
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The k-means algorithm is widely used to design image codecs using vector quantization (VQ). In this paper, we focus on an adaptive approach to implement a VQ technique using the online version of k-means algorithm, in which the size of the codebook is adapted continuously to the statistical behavior of the image. Based on the statistical analysis of the feature space, a set of thresholds are designed such that those codewords corresponding to the low-density clusters would be removed from the codebook and hence, resulting in a higher bit-rate efficiency. Applications of this approach would be in telemedicine, where sequences of highly correlated medical images, e.g. consecutive brain slices, are transmitted over a low bit-rate channel. We have applied this algorithm on magnetic resonance (MR) images and the simulation results on a sample sequence are given. The proposed method has been compared to the standard k-means algorithm in terms of PSNR, MSE, and elapsed time to complete the algorithm.

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Azad Shademan and Mohammad Amin Zia "Adaptive vector quantization of MR images using online k-means algorithm", Proc. SPIE 4472, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIV, (7 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449776

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