Enhancing retinal image by the Contourlet transform

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 516-522

  Feng, Peng ^a   Pan, Yingjun ^a   Wei, Biao ^a   Jin, Wei ^b   Mi, Deling ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy and directionality; Contrast enhancement; Retinal imaging; The Contourlet transform

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANISOTROPY AND DIRECTIONALITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; RETINAL IMAGING; THE CONTOURLET TRANSFORM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33845472876     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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