Automatic adaptive enhancement for images obtained with fiberscopic endoscopes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2035-2046

  Winter, Christian ^b   Rupp, Stephan ^c   Elter, Matthias ^c   Münzenmayer, Christian ^a,c   Gerhäuser, Heinz ^a,b   Wittenberg, Thomas ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Fiberscopes; Image enhancement; Image quality

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPES; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; NYQUIST-SHANNON; OPTIMAL SPECTRAL FILTER;

ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURGERY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING; FIBER OPTICS; FIBEROSCOPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROCESS DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33749521644     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.877110     Document Type: Article

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