Contrast enhancement in dermoscopy images by maximizing a histogram bimodality measure

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2601-2604

  Celebi, M Emre ^a   Iyatomi, Hitoshi ^b   Schaefer, Gerald ^c  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Border detection; Contrast enhancement; Dermoscopy; Melanoma; Otsu's thresholding method

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; BORDER DETECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DERMOSCOPY; DERMOSCOPY IMAGES; GRAY SCALE; IMAGING MODALITY; OPTIMAL WEIGHT; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; RESEARCH AREAS; RGB IMAGES; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77951945168     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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