Evaluation have been done to different enhancement techniques applied to ultrasound kidney images to see which enhancement techniques is the most suitable techniques that can be applied to the kidney images before segmenting the edge of the kidney. Five common enhancement techniques have been used including the spatial domain filtering, frequency domain filtering, histogram processing, morpholo...

The data structure used to represent image information can be critical to the successful completion of an image processing task. One structure that has attracted considerable attention is the image pyramid This consists of a set of lowpass or bandpass copies of an image, each representing pattern information of a different scale. Here we describe a variety of pyramid methods that we have develo...

We present a local-feature-oriented image indexing and retrieval method based on Kwong and Tang's W-transform. Multiresolution histogram comparison is an eeective method for content-based image indexing and retrieval. However, most recent approaches perform multiresolution analysis for whole images but do not exploit the local features present in the images. Since W-transform is featured by its...

introduction:  the  purpose  of  this  study  is  to  define  the  optimal  parameters  for  the  tomographic  reconstruction procedure in a routine single photon emission tomography. the hoffman brain phantom  is modified to evaluate the reconstruction method. the phantom was imaged in a 3 and 2-dimensional  conformation and the results were compared.   materials  and  methods:  the  2d  phant...

The aim of image restoration is to obtain a higher quality desired image from a degraded image. In this strategy, an image inpainting method fills the degraded or lost area of the image by appropriate information. This is performed in such a way so that the obtained image is undistinguishable for a casual person who is unfamiliar with the original image. In this paper, different images are degr...

Since the birth of multi–spectral imaging techniques, there has been a tendency to consider and process this new type of data as a set of parallel gray–scale images, instead of an ensemble of an n–D realization. Although, even now, some researchers make the same assumption, it is proved that using vector geometries leads to better results. In this paper, first a method is prop...

Image enhancement for the better quality of image is required in various image based application. One of the technique to enhance the image is image fusion. It is an effective way for optimum utilization of large volumes of images from multiple sources. It extracts complete information from source images into the result, without introducing any artifacts or inconsistencies. In this process, it ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The objective of this study was to compare the degree of hepatic enhancement and image quality using contrast media of different iodine concentrations with the same iodine dose. METHODS From July 2011 to June 2013, 50 patients with chronic liver disease who underwent baseline and follow-up 128-slice multidetector computed tomography(MDCT) using contrast media with 350 mg I/mL ...

Image enhancement is the process of improving the visual quality of an image. This paper proposes a new algorithm called Multilevel Contrast Stretching and a Noise smoothening technique for enhancement of medical images. The scanned images or X-ray images are possibly affected by illumination, sharpness, contrast and noises, due to this degradation, and as result the diagnosis of disease become...

Image enhancement is a technique to improve the quality of an image. The aim of image enhancement technique is to improve the interpretability or perception of information in images for human viewers, or to provide better input for other automated image processing techniques. This paper presents a fuzzy grayscale enhancement technique for low contrast image corrupted by Gaussian noise. The degr...