Anatomic region based dynamic range compression for chest radiographs using warping transformation of correlated distribution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3034, Issue , 1997, Pages 812-821

  Tsujii, Osamu ^a   Freedman, Matthew T ^a   Mun, Seong K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic information; Chest radiograph; Correlated distribution; Dynamic range compression; Image processing; Lung region; Warping transformation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO CAMERAS; WEAVING;

ANATOMIC INFORMATION; CHEST RADIOGRAPH; CORRELATED DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; LUNG REGION; WARPING TRANSFORMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0347440209     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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