A pyramid-based error-bounded encoder: An evaluation on X-ray chest images

Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-187

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^b   Baronti, Stefano ^a   Chirò, Giuseppe ^b   Lotti, Franco ^a   Moroni, Mario ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laplacian pyramid; Multi resolution coding; Near lossless image compression; Quantization noise feedback; ROC analysis; X ray images

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ERRORS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CONTENT DRIVEN FEEDBACK QUANTIZER; PYRAMID BASED ERROR BOUNDED ENCODER; FEEDBACK QUANTIZER; LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; X RAY CHEST IMAGES;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE CODING;

EID: 0031150292     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(97)00045-5     Document Type: Article

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