ABSTRACT

Storing images for automated image analysis is a different technical problem than that of storing digital images for later manual analysis. Using high-quality raw data is crucial, as recapturing the data at a later stage is at best costly, at worst impossible, and in both cases clearly undesirable. Choice of image type, format, and compression is crucial here. Most people have heard of JPEG images, and some may know they compress the data, but do you know why you need to be careful of using them for data collected for scientific image analysis research? In this chapter, we hope to answer such fundamental questions.