Medical image visual appearance improvement using bihistogram bezier curve contrast enhancement: Data from the osteoarthritis initiative

Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gan, Hong Seng ^a   Swee, Tan Tian ^a   Abdul Karim, Ahmad Helmy ^b   Sayuti, Khairil Amir ^b   Abdul Kadir, Mohammed Rafiq ^a   Tham, Weng Kit ^a   Wong, Liang Xuan ^a   Chaudhary, Kashif T ^a   Ali, Jalil ^a   Yupapin, Preecha P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIHISTOGRAM BEZIER CURVE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84902175202     PISSN: 23566140     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/294104     Document Type: Article

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