Table 3

File sizes of the whole example breast cancer tissue microarray slide image with different compression (C) and scaling (S) ratios (uncompressed original file size 15540 MB)

[MB]

S1

S2

S4

S8

S16

S32

S64

S128

Lossless

4141

1035

259

65

16

4

1

0.3

C12

356

89

22

6

1

0.3

0.1

< 0.1

C25

166

42

10

3

0.6

0.2

< 0.1

< 0.1

C50

81

20

5

1

0.3

0.1

< 0.1

< 0.1

Konsti et al. Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:29   doi:10.1186/1746-1596-7-29