A blurring index for medical images

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-125

  Chen, Tzong Jer ^a   Chuang, Keh Shih ^b   Chang, Jen Hao ^c   Shiao, Ya Hui ^a   Chuang, Chun Chao ^a  

^a Shu Zen College of Medicine and Management   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image blurring; Image quality; Moran peak ratio

Indexed keywords

BLURRING INDEX; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE BLURRING; MORAN PEAK RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; VISIBILITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIGITAL IMAGING; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METRIC SYSTEM; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748907370     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-005-8736-y     Document Type: Article

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