Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 314-325 , March 2008

Prediction of Perceptible Artifacts in JPEG2000 Compressed Abdomen CT Images Using a Perceptual Image Quality Metric

  • Bohyoung Kim, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
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  • Kyoung Ho Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: K.H.L.
    • ,
  • Kil Joong Kim, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Rafal Mantiuk, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Computer Graphics, Saarbrücken, Germany
    • ,
  • Vasundhara Bajpai, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
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  • Tae Jung Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Young Hoon Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Chang Jin Yoon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 463-707, Korea
    • Seoul National University College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Seokyung Hahn, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Received 1 September 2007 ,Accepted 2 October 2007.

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1 Supported by a grant of the Korea Health 21 R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (A06-0110-A81018-06N1-00010A).

PII: S1076-6332(07)00628-9

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.10.018

Academic Radiology
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 314-325 , March 2008

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