Lossless JPEG - Lossless JPEG

Lossless JPEG was developed as a late addition to JPEG in 1993, using a completely different technique from the lossy JPEG standard. It uses a predictive scheme based on the three nearest (causal) neighbors (upper, left, and upper-left), and entropy coding is used on the prediction error. It is not supported by the standard Independent JPEG Group libraries, although Ken Murchison of Oceana Matrix Ltd. wrote a patch that extends the IJG library to support Lossless JPEG. Lossless JPEG has some popularity in medical imaging, and is used in DNG and some digital cameras to compress raw images, but otherwise was never widely adopted.