Artifacts in slab average-intensity-projection images reformatted from JPEG 2000 compressed thin-section abdominal CT data sets

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Kim, Bohyoung ^a,b   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a,b   Kil, Joong Kim ^a,b   Mantiuk, Rafal ^c   Kim, Hye Ri ^a,b   Young, Hoon Kim ^a,b  

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

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Artifacts; Average intensity projection; CT; Data compression; Human visual system; Image quality metric; JPEG 2000

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEDMAN TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44949237872     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3405     Document Type: Article

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