Content-based compression of mammograms with fractal-based segmentation and a modified JPEG2000

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2986-2993

  Chan, Hung Yam ^a   Sari Sarraf, Hamed ^a   Grinstead, Bradley I ^b   Gleason, Shaun S ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content based compression; Fractal based segmentation; JPEG2000; Mammograms; Region of interest coding

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTENT BASED COMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY; FRACTAL BASED SEGMENTATION; JPEG2000; MAMMOGRAMS; REGION-OF-INTEREST CODING;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 12844257594     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1810529     Document Type: Article

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