On the use of standards for microarray lossless image compression

Armando J Pinho; António R C Paiva; António J R Neves

doi:10.1109/TBME.2005.869782

On the use of standards for microarray lossless image compression

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2006 Mar;53(3):563-6. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2005.869782.

Authors

Armando J Pinho¹, António R C Paiva, António J R Neves

Affiliation

¹ Department de Electrónica e Telecomunicações and with the Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro (IEETA), Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. ap@det.ua.pt

PMID: 16532784
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.869782

Abstract

The interest in methods that are able to efficiently compress microarray images is relatively new. This is not surprising, since the appearance and fast growth of the technology responsible for producing these images is also quite recent. In this paper, we present a set of compression results obtained with 49 publicly available images, using three image coding standards: lossless JPEG2000, JBIG, and JPEG-LS. We concluded that the compression technology behind JBIG seems to be the one that offers the best combination of compression efficiency and flexibility for microarray image compression.

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Data Compression / standards*
Guidelines as Topic*
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / standards*
Microscopy, Fluorescence / standards*
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / standards*
Portugal
Reference Standards
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity