Choice of word length in the design of a specialized hardware for lossless wavelet compression of medical images

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3033-3042

  Urriza, Isidro ^a   Barragán, Luis A ^a   Artigas, José I ^a   García, José I ^a   Navarro, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hardware implementation; Medical image compression; Quantization errors; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005117543     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601543     Document Type: Article

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