Determining optimal medical image compression: psychometric and image distortion analysis

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Flint, Alexander C ^a  

^a Interconnect Medical   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; JPEG; Lossy; Medical image compression; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864342717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-12-24     Document Type: Article

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