Compression of 3-D echocardiographic images using a modified 3-D set-partitioning-in-hierarchical-trees algorithm based on a 3-D wavelet packet transform

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Hang, Xiyi ^a   Greenberg, Neil L ^b   Zheng, Yuan F ^c   Thomas, James D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; HIERARCHICAL TREES; SET PARTITIONING; WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748032398     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2194467     Document Type: Article

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