Multilevel wavelet feature statistics for efficient retrieval, transmission, and display of medical images by hybrid encoding

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 449-460

  Yang, Shuyu ^a   Mitra, Sunanda ^a   Corona, Enrique ^a   Nutter, Brian ^a   Lee, D J ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient retrieval of high resolution medical images; Global codebook; High fidelity hybrid encoding; Low bit rate; Multilevel wavelet feature statistics

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICS; STEREO VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

GLOBAL CODEBOOK; HIGH FIDELITY HYBRID ENCODING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SUBSAMPLING; MULTILEVEL WAVELET FEATURE STATISTICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037903794     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703211203     Document Type: Article

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