Sharpening dermatological color images in the wavelet domain

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-13

  Jung, Cláudio R ^a   Scharcanski, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive image denoising; Adaptive image enhancement; Color image processing; Medical imaging; Multiresolution analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; ADAPTIVE IMAGE DENOISING; ADAPTIVE IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; BACKGROUND NOISE; CHI-SQUARED; COLOR IMAGES; DERMATOLOGICAL IMAGES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDES; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; IMAGE BLURRING; LOCAL CONTRASTS; NONLINEAR ENHANCEMENTS; NOVEL METHODS; PUBLIC HEALTHS; RESIDUAL NOISE; SKIN CANCERS; UNDECIMATED WAVELET TRANSFORMS; VISUAL QUALITIES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAINS; WAVELETS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 62349125464     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011113     Document Type: Article

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