Selective medical image compression using wavelet techniques

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 203-213

  Bruckmann, Alfred ^a   Uhl, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Region of interest coding; Selective image compression; Wavelet image compression

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; REGION-OF-INTEREST CODING; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL LOCALITY; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; WAVELET TECHNIQUES; WAVELET-TRANSFORM DOMAIN;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 85015987465     PISSN: 13301136     EISSN: 18463908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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