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What is Weighted Diagnostic Distortion

Chapter 60
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
A weighted measurement of signal distortion in term of changes of medical parameters.
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Echocardiographic Image Sequence Compression Based On Spatial Active Appearance Model
Sándor Miklós Szilágyi (Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Romania), László Szilágyi (Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Romania), and Zoltán Benyó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch060
Abstract
Echocardiography is a popular medical imaging modality due to its noninvasive and versatile behavior. There are no known side effects, and the measuring equipment is small and inexpensive relative to other options, such as MRI or CT. Reducing storage requirements and making data access user friendly are two important motivations for applying compression to ultrasound images, with the retention of diagnostic information being critical (Chiu, Vaisey, & Atkins, 2001).
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