A predictive classified vector quantizer and its subjective quality evaluation for X-ray CT images
Journal Article
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· IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
OSTI ID:78123
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
The authors have developed a new classified vector quantizer (CVQ) using decomposition and prediction which does not need to store or transmit any side information. To obtain better quality in the compressed images, human visual perception characteristics are applied to the classification and bit allocation. This CVQ has been subjectively evaluated for a sequence of X-ray CT images and compared to a DCT coding method. Nine X-ray CT head images from three patients are compressed at 10:1 and 15:1 compression ratios and are evaluated by 13 radiologists. The evaluation data are analyzed statistically with analysis of variance and Tukey`s multiple comparison. Even through there are large variations in judging image quality among readers, the proposed algorithm has shown significantly better quality than the DCT at a statistical significance level of 0.05. Only an interframe CVQ can reproduce the quality of the originals at 10:1 compression at the same significance level. While the CVQ can reproduce compressed images that are not statistically different from the originals in quality, the effect on diagnostic accuracy remains to be investigated.
- OSTI ID:
- 78123
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 14; ISSN 0278-0062; ISSN ITMID4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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