Title :
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Enhancement by Tensor Based Diffusion
Author :
Li, Baopu ; Meng, Max Q H
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
To enhance the contrast and the details of the wireless capsule endoscopy images, which are used to diagnose the status of the human gastrointestinal tracts, we propose a tensor based diffusion method in this paper. After analyzing the structure tensor of the image in RGB color space, we focus on the properties of the nonlinear anisotropic diffusion. Then we design two diffusion strength functions to determine the anisotropic diffusion according to the local characteristics of the wireless capsule endoscopy images. Experimental results on real wireless capsule endoscopy images indicate effective enhancement of details and contrast by our new approach
Keywords :
biological organs; biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; image enhancement; medical image processing; tensors; RGB color space; diffusion strength function; human gastrointestinal tract; image contrast; image enhancement; nonlinear anisotropic diffusion; structure tensor; tensor based diffusion; wireless capsule endoscopy image; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Diseases; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Endoscopes; Gastrointestinal tract; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image enhancement; Intestines; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260002