A direct image contrast enhancement algorithm in the wavelet domain for screening mammograms

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-80

  Tang, Jinshan ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a,b   Sun, Qingling ^a  

^a ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast measure; Direct image enhancement; Mammograms; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST MEASURE; DIRECT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; END USERS; ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; HUMAN VISION SYSTEMS; IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENTS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MAMMOGRAMS; MULTISCALE MEASURES; SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS; SINGLE PARAMETERS; TRANSFORM-BASED METHODS; VISUAL QUALITIES; WAVELET DOMAINS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 62349115731     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011108     Document Type: Article

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