Multiscale toggle contrast operator-based mineral image enhancement

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-153

  Bai, X ^a   Zhou, F ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Mineral image enhancement; Multiscale; Toggle contrast operator

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MINERALS;

DIFFERENT SIZES; MINERAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MULTISCALE; ORIGINAL IMAGES; RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; TOGGLE CONTRAST OPERATOR; VISUAL IMAGE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MINERAL IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOGGLE CONTRAST OPERATOR;

EID: 79960387067     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2010.03487.x     Document Type: Article

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