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Can a facility use lossless compression to store FFDM images for retention purposes?

April 26, 2017compression facility ffdm images lossless purposes retention store

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Can a facility use lossless compression to store FFDM images for retention purposes?

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Yes. Lossless compression accurately preserves all of the data from the original mammogram and therefore FDA permits images regenerated from lossless compressed data to be used in the same manner as the original mammogram. Question 7: Can a facility use lossless compression to recreate FFDM images for final interpretation? Yes. Lossless compression accurately preserves all of the data from the original mammogram and therefore FDA permits images regenerated from lossless compressed data to be used in the same manner as the original mammogram. Question 8: Can a facility use lossy compression to store FFDM images for retention purposes? No. Currently FDA does not permit images regenerated from lossy compressed data to be used in the same manner as the original mammogram. Question 9: Can a facility use lossy compression to recreate FFDM images for final interpretation? No. Currently FDA does not permit images regenerated from lossy compressed data to be used in the same manner as the origi