Selective medical image compression techniques for telemedical and archiving applications

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 153-169

  Bruckmann, Alfred ^a   Uhl, Andreas ^a  

^a Res Inst for Softwaretechnology   (Austria)

Author keywords

JPEG; Region of interest coding; Selective image compression; Wavelet image compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; STANDARDS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

JOINT PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) STANDARDS; SELECTIVE IMAGE COMPRESSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; TELERADIOLOGY;

EID: 0034658035     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(00)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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