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lossy compression

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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 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.
Lossy compression can achieve higher compression ratio by discarding some information.
The best example for lossy compression formats are the MP3 and MP4 / AAC formats where you have considerable loss in the quality compared to the original CDs.
 
 
 
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