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Digital image formats and compression

A disucssion of lossy image format such as jpeg versus lossless formats such as tif, which retain all image data

What image formats are best suited for image analysis?

While jpegs reduce image storage requirements some data is lost. Other formats such as tiff are lossless and so retain more data.

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