A new approach for noise reduction in spine radiograph images using a non-linear contrast adjustment scheme based adaptive factor

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4246-4258

  Mustapha, Aouache ^a   Hussain, Aini ^a   Samad, Salina Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Gamma correction; MLP model; Noise reduction; Spine X ray images

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053056184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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