Transform coefficient histogram-based image enhancement algorithms using contrast entropy

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 741-758

  Agaian, Sos S ^a   Silver, Blair ^b   Panetta, Karen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast entropy; Contrast measure; Discrete cosine transform (DCT); Discrete Fourier transform (DFT); Human vision system; Image enhancement; Transform histogram

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE QUALITY; VISION;

CONTRAST ENTROPY; HUMAN VISION SYSTEM; TRANSFORM HISTOGRAM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947311740     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.888338     Document Type: Article

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