Parameterized logarithmic framework for image enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 460-473

  Panetta, Karen ^a   Agaian, Sos ^b   Zhou, Yicong ^a   Wharton, Eric J ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Alpha rooting (AR); histogram equalization (HE); image enhancement; parameterized logarithmic image processing (PLIP)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ROOTING (AR); CHANGING PARAMETER; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR ARITHMETIC; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERIZED LOGARITHMIC IMAGE PROCESSING; UNIFIED MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETERIZATION;

IMAGE FUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79952899160     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2058847     Document Type: Article

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