A comparison of three image fidelity metrics of different computational principles for JPEG2000 compressed abdomen CT images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1496-1503

  Kim, Kil Joong ^a   Kim, Bohyoung ^b   Mantiuk, Rafal ^c   Richter, Thomas ^d   Lee, Hyunna ^b   Kang, Heung Sik ^e   Seo, Jinwook ^b   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^d  

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

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; image compression; image fidelity metric; JPEG2000

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; COMPRESSED IMAGES; COMPRESSION RATIOS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; DYNAMIC RANGE; IMAGE FIDELITY; JPEG 2000; LOSSLESS COMPRESSION; MULTISCALES; REFERENCE STANDARD; SECTION THICKNESS; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL DIFFERENCE PREDICTORS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; DATA COMPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955310523     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2049655     Document Type: Article

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