Advantage in image fidelity and additional computing time of JPEG2000 3D in comparison to JPEG2000 in compressing abdomen CT image datasets of different section thicknesses

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4238-4248

  Lee, Hyunna ^a   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^b   Kim, Kil Joong ^c   Park, Seongjin ^a   Seo, Jinwook ^a   Shin, Yeong Gil ^a   Kim, Bohyoung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

abdomen CT; image fidelity; JPEG2000 3D (part 2); section thickness

Indexed keywords

DECODING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GRADING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ENCODING AND DECODING; IMAGE FIDELITY; JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP; JPEG 2000; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SECTION THICKNESS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNATIONALITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149490035     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3457471     Document Type: Article

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