Versatile Approaches for Medical Image Compression: A Review

In this world of evolution, the utilization of the medical technology and huge data generation by the different medical modalities, the storage, transmission and handling of the digital data requires data compression. In past few years, several compression mechanisms, techniques, and algorithms are proposed by many researchers. This paper focuses over the current status of these compression strategies with new hybrid approaches, performance parameters, legal issues and their applications in enhancing the medical technology.