Evaluating Quality of Compressed Medical Images: SNR, Subjective Rating, and Diagnostic Accuracy

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 919-932

  Cosman, Pamela C ^a   Gray, Robert M ^a   Olshen, Richard A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VECTORS;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); PREDICTIVE PRUNED TREE STRUCTURED VECTOR QUANTIZATION; SUBJECTIVE RATING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0028445482     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.286196     Document Type: Article

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