From: mdpyssc@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Sue Cunningham)
Subject: Fractals? What good are they ?
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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We have been using Iterated Systems compression board to compress 
pathology images and are getting ratios of 40:1 to 70:1 without too
much loss in quality. It is taking about 4 mins per image to compress,
on a 25Mhz 486 but decompression is almost real time on a 386 in software 
alone.
