Wavelet coding of volumetric medical images for high throughput and operability

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 719-727

  Wu, Xiaolin ^a   Qiu, Tong ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D wavelet transform; Context modeling; Golomb Rice code; Lossless image coding; Progressive transmission; Random access (region of interest); Teleradiology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

3-D WAVELET TRANSFORMS; CONTEXT MODELING; GOLOMB-RICE CODE; LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING; PROGRESSIVE TRANSMISSION; RANDOM ACCESS; TELERADIOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 20744432611     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.846858     Document Type: Article

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