Title :
A fast and adaptive method for image contrast enhancement
Author :
Yu, Zeyun ; Bajaj, Chandrajit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we describe a fast approach for image contrast enhancement, based on localized contrast manipulation. Our approach is not only last and easy to implement, but also has several other promising properties (adaptive, multiscale, weighted localization, etc.). We will also discuss in this paper an anisotropic version of our approach. Several examples of medical images, including brain MR images, chest CT images and mammography images, will be provided to demonstrate the performance of our approach.
Keywords :
image enhancement; medical image processing; image contrast enhancement; localized contrast manipulation; medical images; Adaptive equalizers; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Biomedical imaging; Electron microscopy; Filters; Histograms; Mammography; Pixel; Smoothing methods; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8554-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2004.1419470
