Lossy three-dimensional JPEG2000 compression of abdominal CT images: Assessment of the visually lossless threshold and effect of compression ratio on image quality

Radiology

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 467-474

  Ringl, Helmut ^a   Schernthaner, Ruediger E ^a   Kulinna Cosentini, Christiane ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Schaefer Prokop, Cornelia ^b   Herold, Christian J ^a   Schima, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35349013622     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2452061713     Document Type: Article

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