Enhancement of Chest Radiographs with Gradient Operators

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 109-117

  Daponte, John S ^a   Fox, Martin D ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ENHANCING CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; GRADIENT OPERATORS; IMAGE EDGES ENHANCEMENT;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0024029879     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.3937     Document Type: Article

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