Enhancement of medical image details via wavelet homomorphic filtering transform

Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-94

  Tan, Yunlan ^a,b   Li, Guangyao ^b   Duan, Huixian ^c   Li, Chao ^b  

^a JINGGANGSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

dyadic wavelet transform; homomorphic filtering; Medical image enhancement; MR images

Indexed keywords

DYADIC WAVELET TRANSFORM; HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; MR IMAGES; NON-UNIFORM LUMINANCE; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; WAVELET RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84889690989     PISSN: 03341860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jisys-2013-0061     Document Type: Article

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