Effects of JPEG2000 data compression on an automated system for detecting clustered microcalcifications in digital mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 354-361

  Penedo, Mónica ^a   Lado, María J ^b   Tahoces, Pablo G ^c   Souto, Miguel ^d   Vidal, Juan J ^d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection (CAD); Digital mammography; Image compression; JPEG2000

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE JPEG2000;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645713747     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.864381     Document Type: Article

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