Visually lossless compression of digitized radiographs based on contrast sensitivity and visual masking

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5749, Issue , 2005, Pages 359-372

  Chandler, Damon M ^a   Dykes, Nathan L ^b   Hemami, Sheila S ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast threshold; Image compression; Visual masking; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

COMPRESSION RATIOS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITIES; CONTRAST THRESHOLD; DIGITIZED RADIOGRAPHS; LOSSLESS; LOSSLESS COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; LOSSLESS COMPRESSIONS; MAXIMUM CONTRASTS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUANTIZATION ALGORITHMS; QUANTIZATION DISTORTIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; VISUAL MASKING; WAVELET; WAVELET SUBBAND;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 24644481018     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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