Local gray level S-curve transformation – A generalized contrast enhancement technique for medical images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue , 2017, Pages 120-133

  Gandhamal, Akash ^a,b   Talbar, Sanjay ^a   Gajre, Suhas ^a   Hani, Ahmad Fadzil M ^b   Kumar, Dileep ^b  

^a SHRI GURU GOBIND SINGHJI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Gray level transformation; Medical imaging; S curve

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LUMINANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEATURE SIMILARITIES; GRAY-LEVEL TRANSFORMATION; PIXEL TRANSFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; S CURVE; TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGMOID; VISUAL INFORMATION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85014474714     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.03.001     Document Type: Article

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