Evaluation of detection in compressed digital mammograms using numerical observers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5034, Issue , 2003, Pages 513-521

  Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Ved, Hetal ^b   D'Orsi, Carl J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Image compression; JPEG 2000; Mammography; Observer models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BREAST CANCER;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041857992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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