“…While lossy encoding of digital data (Sayood, 2000) is well handled by a variety of coding methods (Hankerson et al, 2003;Solomon, 2006) such as wavelet encoding (En-hui et al, 1997;Albanesi, 1997;Brechet et al, 2007;Zaki et al, 2001;Usevitch, 2001;Evangelista and Cavaliere, 1998;Chapa and Rao, 2000;Goswami and Chan, 1999;Kitanovski et al, 2008;Hosny et al, 1999;Fgee et al, 1999), it leads to errors in the decoded data that may be unacceptable for a given application. In applications where the collection of digital data is difficult, costly, or subject to federal law, unacceptable loss of information from lossy encoding methods may lead to exclusive use of lossless encoding (Solomon, 2007;Nunez and Jones, 2003).…”