Internet-based telemedicine: An empirical investigation of objective and subjective video quality

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 681-696

  Tulu, Bengisu ^a   Chatterjee, Samir ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Network impairments; Quality measurements; Subjective quality experiments; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); JITTER; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELEMEDICINE;

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; NETWORK IMPAIRMENTS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY VALUES; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE QUALITY EXPERIMENTS; SUBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY; TEST BEDS;

INTERNET;

EID: 53349102291     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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