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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2006: 1089-92, 2006.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17946875
ABSTRACT
This article presents an algorithm for compression of echocardiographic images. The algorithm is based on the JPEG algorithm and uses a fuzzy inference system to adapt the normalization process of the transformed coefficients through the analysis of the local characteristics of echocardiographic images. The images considered in this paper were acquired in actual echocardiography exams. The proposed encoder guarantees a maximum local signal-to-noise ratio, which is adapted to the characteristics of each sub-block of the image.