Perceptually tuned JPEG coder for echocardiac image compression

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-320

  Al Fahoum, Amjed S ^a   Reza, Ali M ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN MATCHING;

BIT ALLOCATION; ECHOCARDIAC IMAGE COMPRESSION; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMUM CODING TECHNIQUE; PERCEPTUAL TUNING; RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HYPERMEDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA COMPRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HYPERMEDIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4644239529     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.832545     Document Type: Article

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