A novel approach to medical image compression

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-103

  Zukoski, Matthew J ^a,d   Boult, Terrance ^b,e   Iyriboz, Tunç ^c  

^a WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Colorado Springs   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Communication and Computation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinically relevant; Compression; JPEG; Lossless; Lossy; Mammogram; Medical imaging; Mutual information maximisation; Region of interest (ROI); Snakes; Wavelet; X ray

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RADIOLOGIST; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

SERPENTES;

EID: 33646440918     PISSN: 17445458     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2006.009195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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