Compression guidelines for diagnostic telepathology

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-60

  Foran, David J ^a,b   Meer, Peter P ^a,c   Papathomas, Thomas ^a,c   Marsic, Ivan ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TELEPATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; TELEPATHOLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

DIAGNOSTIC TELEPATHOLOGY; JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE; LARGEST TOLERABLE DISTORTION; LOSSY COMPRESSION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0031081831     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.594046     Document Type: Article

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