Four-dimensional wavelet compression of arbitrarily sized echocardiographic data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1179-1187

  Zeng, Li ^a,b   Jansen, Christian P ^a   Marsch, Stephan ^a   Unser, Michael ^c   Hunziker, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Image coding; Multidimensional images; Zerotree algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

WAVELET COMPRESSION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036770744     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.804424     Document Type: Article

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