Medical image compression based on a morphological representation of wavelet coefficients

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1607-1611

  Phelan, Niall C ^a,b   Ennis, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b National Breast Screening Program   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Image compression; Image quality; Image storage; Image transmission; Medical imaging; PACS; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COMPRESSION RATIO; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL STORAGE; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; HIGH QUALITY IMAGE COMPRESSION; MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0032814535     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598655     Document Type: Article

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