Objective index of image fidelity for JPEG2000 compressed body CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3218-3226

  Kim, Kil Joong ^a   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^b   Kang, Heung Sik ^b   Kim, So Yeon ^b   Kim, Young Hoon ^b   Kim, Bohyoung ^a   Seo, Jinwook ^a   Mantiuk, Rafal ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Image compression; Image fidelity; Image quality metric

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE FIDELITY; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT; JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; VISUAL DIFFERENCE PREDICTORS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ABDOMEN; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649576940     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3129159     Document Type: Article

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