Reduction in size of digital images: Does it lead to less detectability or loss of diagnostic information?

Dentomaxillofacial Radiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-96

  Versteeg, C H ^a,b   Sanderink, G C H ^a   Lobach, S R ^a   Van der Stell, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Oral Radiology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dental; Diagnostic imaging; Image processing, computer assisted; Perception; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; STANDARD; TOOTH PULP; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL, DIGITAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0032015895     PISSN: 0250832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.dmfr.4600329     Document Type: Article

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