2003.04.08 14:04 "please help with LZW", by Hailin Shen

Dear All,

I have a project in image analysis. The images I got are essentially multipage tiff format with private tags. Image data are compressed with LZW and preprocess by horizontal differencing. The bit per sample is 16. But I was told images are 512*512*12bit. 512*512 is the size of image.

I wonder what the LZW characters are for data after horizontal differencing for my case, since data could be positive or negative. At the position of stripoffsets, the hex number are '80 07 80 0F 17 F8 24 00 E8 7F 85 ....', ' 80 05 C0 27 A7 FB B9 FE 9E 00 1A ...' I could not figure out how to decode properly with clear code 256. File format is IEEE little-endian format. Any information is welcome!

The project is completely for academic study.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

All the best

Hailin