Background and objective: Capsule endoscopy investigations currently capture a large
number of images that must be processed and transferred inside the capsule. This demands
a compression system that is capable of reducing the amount of data processed, encoded
and transmitted. In comparison to a lossless system, a near-lossless image compression
approach would have lower complexity and reduce the amount of data processed inside the
capsule. However, the visual quality of the images compressed using a near-lossless …