Implementing a large-scale multicentric study for evaluation of lossy JPEG and JPEG 2000 medical image compression: Challenges and rewards

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6515, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Koff, David ^a   Bak, Peter ^b   Volkening, Andrew ^a   Shulman, Harry ^a   Brownrigg, Paul ^c   Lepanto, Luigi ^d   Michalak, Tracy ^a   Kiss, Alex ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Canada Health Infoway   (Canada)

^c FRASER HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DICOM; JPEG; JPEG 2000; Lossy compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CANADA; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CODING ENGINES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE SIZE REDUCTION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 35148860667     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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