Lossy Compression

Definition 1

A data compression algorithm that reduces the amount of information in the data, rather than just the number of bits used to represent that information. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 2

Lossy compression has been applied to an image. (NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

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