Assessment of commercial compression algorithms, of the lossy DCT and lossless types, applied to diagnostic digital image files

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-30

  Okkalides, Demetrios ^a  

^a Ippokration Hospital Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

DCT compression; Digital image compression; JPEG; Lossy compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STANDARDS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM; JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL COMPUTER; MICROSCOPY; NOISE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPACT DISKS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DATA DISPLAY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031732168     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(98)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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