Performance enhanced ripplet transform based compression method for medical images.

• An enhanced Ripplet transform based compression technique is proposed in this work. • Singular Value Decomposition is used in this work for prediction. • An approximate 5%–25% improvement in PSNR is achieved with this proposed work. Ripplet transforms provide efficient representation of images with all the spatial details. Since more details are extracted, the compression ratio is usually less. In this work, lossless prediction and lossy singular value decomposition of the ripplet coefficients are carried out to improve the performance of conventional ripplet transform based system. Initially, lossless prediction exploits the correlation between the image pixels and eases the process of transformation. Fast and computationally efficient randomized singular value decomposition technique is used to capture the essential information of the high frequency ripplet coefficients. The low frequency and the high frequency components are then encoded using entropy method. Experimental results show promising results for the proposed approached in terms of performance measure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]