Novel medical image enhancement algorithms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7532, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Agaian, Sos ^a,b   McClendon, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b Multimedia and Mobile Signal Processing Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive contrast enhancement; Cascaded unsharp masking; Global image enhancement; Global sharpening enhancement algorithm; Medical image enhancement; Purkinje cell image processing scheme

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CASCADED UNSHARP MASKING; ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PURKINJE CELLS; UNSHARP MASKING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CELLS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATLAB; NEURONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952067596     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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