Quality of compressed medical images

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-159

  Shiao, Ya Hui ^a   Chen, Tzong Jer ^a   Chuang, Keh Shih ^b   Lin, Cheng Hsun ^c   Chuang, Chun Chao ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image compression; Image quality; JPEG; JPEG2000

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; COMPRESSION RATIO LEVELS; COMPRESSION RATIOS; QUALITY EVALUATION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249008133     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9013-z     Document Type: Article

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