Are medical image display systems perceptually optimal? Measurements before and after perceptual linearization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2707, Issue , 1996, Pages 555-570

  Hemminger, Bradley M ^a   Blume, Hartwig R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEARIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; DISPLAY DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDIZATION;

BEFORE AND AFTER; CONTRAST THRESHOLDS; DISPLAY FUNCTIONS; DISPLAY SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RANGES; HUMAN OBSERVERS; MEDICAL IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RESPONSE CURVES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICAL MEASURES; WORKING GROUPS;

DISPLAY DEVICES; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST THRESHOLD RATIOS; DISPLAY FUNCTION STANDARDS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LINEARIZATION UNIFORMITY MEASURE; PERCEPTUAL LINEARIZATION;

EID: 0029710656     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.238486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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