Contrast enhancement of radiograph images based on local heterogeneity measures

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 989-992

  El Feghi, I ^a   Huang, S ^a   Sid Ahmed, M A ^a   Ahmadi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; PIXEL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPH IMAGES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 20444459120     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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