Joint exact histogram specification and image enhancement through the wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2245-2250

  Wan, Yi ^a   Shi, Dongbinn ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram specification (HS); Image enhancement; Normalization; Pixel ordering; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIXELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATION (HS); PIXEL ORDERING; STATISTICAL MODELS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34548251472     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.902332     Document Type: Article

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