Locally adaptive wavelet contrast enhancement

Medical Image Analysis Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 225-270

  Costaridou, Lena ^a   Sakellaropoulos, Philipos ^a   Skiadopoulos, Spyros ^a   Panayiotakis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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EID: 33746377390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203500453-10     Document Type: Chapter

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