Wavelet coding of volumetric medical datasets

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 441-458

  Schelkens, Peter ^a,b   Munteanu, Adrian ^b   Barbarien, Joeri ^b   Galca, Mihnea ^b   Giro Nieto, Xavier ^b   Cornelis, Jan ^b  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Embedded coding; JPEG2000; Layered zero coding; Lossless compression; Medical image compression; Progressive image transmission; Quadtree coding; Volumetric coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECODING; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP; LOSSLESS COMPRESSION; PROGRESSIVE IMAGE TRANSMISSION; QUADTREE; VOLUMETRIC DATA CODING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038321585     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809582     Document Type: Article

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