Tree-Structured Vector Quantization of CT Chest Scans: Image Quality and Diagnostic Accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 727-739

  Cosman, P C ^a   Tseng, C ^a   Gray, R M ^b   Olshen, R A ^b   Moses, L E ^b   Davidson, H C ^b   Bergin, C J ^b   Riskin, E A ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LOSSY COMPRESSED IMAGES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027883396     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.251124     Document Type: Article

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