Region-Based Wavelet Coding Methods for Digital Mammography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1288-1296

  Penedo, Mónica ^a   Pearlman, William A ^b   Tahoces, Pablo G ^a   Souto, Miguel ^a   Vidal, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Lossy image compression; Object based coding; Region of interest (ROI); Region based wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0141954910     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.817812     Document Type: Article

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