Variable Rate Vector Quantization for Medical Image Compression

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 290-298

  Riskin, Eve A ^a   Lookabaugh, Tom ^b   Chou, Philip A ^c   Gray, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Information Systems Laboratory Compression Labs Inc ^*  (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE STORAGE, DIGITAL; INFORMATION THEORY--DATA COMPRESSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION; OPTIMAL PRUNING; TREE-STRUCTURED VECTOR QUANTIZER; VARIABLE RATE VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025482232     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.57766     Document Type: Article

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