Adaptive local contrast enhancement method for medical images displayed on a video monitor

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-87

  Lin, Tzong Huei ^a   Kao, Tsair ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive image enhancement; Display luminance; HVS

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; TELEVISION EQUIPMENT;

ADAPTIVE LOCAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT (ALCE) METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISPLAY SYSTEM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINANCE; MONITOR; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; HUMANS; PNEUMOTHORAX; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0034162339     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(00)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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