TY - JOUR T1 - A real-time compression library for microscopy images JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/164624 SP - 164624 AU - Bálint Balázs AU - Joran Deschamps AU - Marvin Albert AU - Jonas Ries AU - Lars Hufnagel Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/21/164624.abstract N2 - Fluorescence imaging techniques such as single molecule localization microscopy, high-content screening and light-sheet microscopy are producing ever-larger datasets, which poses increasing challenges in data handling and data sharing. Here, we introduce a real-time compression library that allows for very fast (beyond 1 GB/s) compression and de-compression of microscopy datasets during acquisition. In addition to an efficient lossless mode, our algorithm also includes a lossy option, which limits pixel deviations to the intrinsic noise level of the image and yields compression ratio of up to 100-fold. We present a detailed performance analysis of the different compression modes for various biological samples and imaging modalities. ER -