JPEG 2000 compression of abdominal CT: Difference in tolerance between thin- and thick-section images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 535-541

  Hyoun, Sik Woo ^a,b   Kil, Joong Kim ^a,b   Tae, Jung Kim ^a,b   Hahn, Seokyung ^c   Kim, Bohyoung ^a,b   Young, Hoon Kim ^a,b   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CT; Data compression; JPEG 2000; Visually lossless threshold

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; DATA COMPRESSION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548213118     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2304     Document Type: Article

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