Perceptually lossless medical image coding

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-344

  Wu, David ^a,b   Tan, Damian M ^a,b   Baird, Marilyn ^a   DeCampo, John ^c,d   White, Chris ^a   Wu, Hong Ren ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 staged forced choice; Biomedical imaging; Double blind testing; Image coding; Just not noticeable Difference; Medical image coding; Perceptually lossless image coding; Vision model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

2-STAGED FORCED CHOICE; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND TESTING; JUST-NOT-NOTICEABLE- DIFFERENCE; MEDICAL IMAGE CODING; PERCEPTUALLY LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING; VISION MODEL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33644612186     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.870483     Document Type: Article

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