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Eur J Radiol
; 22(3): 228-31, 1996 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8832238
RESUMO
The aim of this paper is to validate a compression scheme applied on a medical image database of digitized wrist radiographs. The compression scheme adapts itself to local statistical properties of the images. The diagnostic quality of the reconstructed images is evaluated using a ROC protocol involving five medical experts. The results of this evaluation enable us to validate the compression scheme on this database with a compression ratio of 40 (0.2 bits per pixel).