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Lossless Compression of RNAi Fluorescence Images Using Regional Fluctuations of Pixels
Abstract—RNA interference (RNAi) is considered one of the most powerful genomic tools which allows the study of drug discovery and understanding of the complex cellular processes by high-content screens. This field of study, which was the subject of 2006 Nobel Prize of medicine, has drastically changed the conventionalmethodsofanalysisofgenes.Alargenumberofimageshave been produced by the RNAi experiments. Even though a number of capable special purpose methods have been proposed recently fortheprocessingofRNAiimagesbutthereisnocustomizedcompression scheme for these images. Hence, highly proficient tools are required to compress these images. In this paper, we propose a new efficient lossless compression scheme for the RNAi images. A newpredictorspecificallydesignedfortheseimagesisproposed.It isshownthatpixelscanbeclassifiedintothreecategoriesbasedon their intensity distributions. Using classification of pixels based on theintensityfluctuationsamongtheneighborsofapixelacontextbased method is designed. Comparisons of the proposed method with the existing state-of-the-art lossless compression standards and well-known general-purpose methods are performed to show the efficiency of the proposed method.
Index Terms—Context modeling, high-content screening, lossless compression, prediction, RNA interference (RNAi).
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