Appeal No. 2004-0823
Application No. 09/555,391
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of compressing a medical image, comprising:
providing a medical diagnostic image, having associated therewith at least one
windowing parameter;
automatically selecting by a computer of a desired compressed image quality, responsive
to said at least one windowing parameter; and
compressing said image, using a lossy compression method, such that a decompressed
image will have substantially said desired compressed image quality.
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