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lossy compression
Telemedicine A format for data transmission which compresses, transmits and decompresses at the receiving end with a 'tolerable' loss of imaged data. See Data compression, Telemedicine; Cf Codec, Loss-less compression, Modem, T-1.


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In lossy aggregation many data packets are passed through aggregation function that generates a single packet which has no information about the original data.
In lossy compression some of the information prior to the process is permanently lost while in lossless all the information prior to the compression can be retrieved.
The researches on hyperspectral image compression schemes can be generally classified into lossless and lossy techniques [1].
 
 
 
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