Comparison of image enhancement methods for the effective diagnosis in successive whole-body bone scans

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-436

  Jeong, Chang Bu ^a   Kim, Kwang Gi ^a   Kim, Tae Sung ^a   Kim, Seok Ki ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Exact histogram matching; Image enhancement; Similarity measure; Successive whole body bone scans

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; HISTOGRAM INTERSECTION; HISTOGRAM MATCHING; INTENSITY INFORMATION; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TUMOR RESPONSE; WHOLE-BODY BONE;

BONE; CHEMOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE; BONE TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 80052914663     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-010-9273-x     Document Type: Article

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