Nowadays, digital images are used in many areas in everyday life, but they tend to be big. This increment of the amount of information leads us to the problem of image data storage. An important feature of image compression is that it can be lossy or lossless. A compressed image is acceptable provided these losses of image information are not perceived by the eye. It is possible to assume that a portion of this information is redundant. In lossy compression, current image compression schemes remove information considered irrelevant by using mathematical criteria. One of the...