Compression of biomedical images and signals Relevance of biomedical data compression State of the art of compression methods Specificities of physiological signals and medical images Standards in medical image compression Quality assessment of lossy compressed medical images Compression of physiological signals Compression of 2 D biomedical images Compression of dynamic and volumetric medical sequences Compression of static and dynamic 3D surface meshes Hybrid coding: encryption watermarking compression for medical information security