Diagnostically acceptable irreversible compression
Diagnostically acceptable irreversible compression is the amount of lossy compression which can be used on a medical image to produce a result that does not prevent the reader from using the image to make a medical diagnosis.
The term was first introduced at a workshop on irreversible compression convened by the European Society of Radiology in Palma de Mallorca October 13, 2010, the results of which were reported in a subsequent position paper.
It is difficult to establish the criteria for whether a particular irreversible compression scheme applied with particular parameters to a particular individual image, or category of images, avoids the introduction of some quantifiable risk of a diagnostic error for any particular diagnostic task.
