Lossless Microarray Image Compression by Hardware Array Compactor

• Main Authors: A. Banaei, S. Samavi, E. Nasr Esfahani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iran University of Science and Technology 2005-10-01
• Series: Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Subjects: DNA; Microarray; Image processing; Image compression; Pipeline.
• Online Access: http://ijeee.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3-56&slc_lang=en&sid=1

Microarray technology is a new and powerful tool for concurrent monitoring of large number of genes expressions. Each microarray experiment produces hundreds of images. Each digital image requires a large storage space. Hence, real-time processing of these images and transmission of them necessitates efficient and custom-made lossless compression schemes. In this paper, we offer a new architecture for lossless compression of microarray images. In this architecture, we have used a dedicated hardware for separation of foreground pixels from the background ones. By separating these pixels and using pipeline architecture, a higher lossless compression ratio has been achieved as compared to other existing methods