Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarityZhou Wang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Center for Neural Science and the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 13:600-12. 2004
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Information content weighting for perceptual image quality assessmentZhou Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universityof Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
IEEE Trans Image Process 20:1185-98. 2011
..Third, the best overall performance is achieved by combining information content weighting with multiscale structural similarity measures...
- Quality-aware images
Zhou Wang
Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY 10012, USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 15:1680-9. 2006
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- Maximum differentiation (MAD) competition: a methodology for comparing computational models of perceptual quantities
Zhou Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
J Vis 8:8.1-13. 2008
..Moreover, careful study of the synthesized stimuli may suggest potential ways to improve a model or to combine aspects of multiple models. We demonstrate the methodology for two example perceptual quantities: contrast and image quality...
- Complex wavelet structural similarity: a new image similarity index
Mehul P Sampat
Advanced Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
IEEE Trans Image Process 18:2385-401. 2009
..It is robust to small rotations and translations. It provides useful comparisons even without a preprocessing image registration step, which is essential for other indices. Moreover, it is computationally less expensive...
- On the mathematical properties of the structural similarity index
Dominique Brunet
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
IEEE Trans Image Process 21:1488-99. 2012
..The groundwork laid here extends the potentials of SSIM in both theoretical development and practical applications...
Microcatheter tip enhancement in fluoroscopy: a comparison of techniquesAkihiro Takemura
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 5 11 80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa, 920 0942, Japan
J Digit Imaging 20:367-72. 2007
..We conclude that AIST provides the best SNR for a moving microcatheter tip and that DAF is optimal for a temporarily stationary microcatheter tip...
- Investigation of gamma knife image registration errors resulting from misalignment between the patient and the imaging axis
George Cernica
Department of Physics, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
Med Phys 33:941-3. 2006
..The mean difference between the base line and the respective coordinates in misaligned geometries was approximately 0.2 mm (sigma=0.2 mm), well within the accuracy of the image sets and the delivery of radiosurgery with the Gamma Knife...
- Contrast settling in cerebral aneurysm angiography
Zhi-jie Wang
Toshiba Stroke Research Center, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 3435 Main Street, 445 BRB, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
Phys Med Biol 50:3171-81. 2005
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- An algorithm for tracking microcatheters in fluoroscopy
Akihiro Takemura
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 5 11 80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa, 920 0942, Japan
J Digit Imaging 21:99-108. 2008
..26 mm (1.5 pixels), respectively. The error distance was less than 3 pixels in the 93.0% frames. Although the algorithm intermittently failed to correctly detect the catheter, the algorithm recovered the catheter in subsequent frames...
