chest radiography is a common diagnostic imaging test, which contains an enormous amount of information about a patient. however,its interpretation is highly challenging. the accuracy of the diagnostic process is greatly influenced by image processing algorithms;hence enhancement of the images is indispensable in order to improve visibility of the details. this paper aims at improving radiograp...

Early detection of lung cancer through chest radiography is a widely used method due to its relatively affordable cost. In this paper, an approach to improve lung nodule visualization on chest radiographs is presented. The approach makes use of linear phase high-frequency emphasis filter for digital filtering and histogram equalization for contrast enhancement to achieve improvements. Results o...

background and aims. in periapical radiographic technique, the changes will be visible only after considerable deposition or resorption while digital subtraction technique visualizes slight density changes. this study was aimed to compare visualization of density changes in conventional periapical radiographs and digital subtraction technique with or without image enhancement. materials and met...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether edge enhancement could improve the visibility of subtle findings on soft copies of neonatal chest radiographs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two radiologists reviewed 82 soft-copy neonatal chest radiographs before and after the application of edge enhancement on our picture archiving and communication system (PACS). The visibility of a pneum...

Chest radiography is a common diagnostic imaging test, which contains an enormous amount of information about a patient. However, its interpretation is highly challenging. The accuracy of the diagnostic process is greatly influenced by image processing algorithms; hence enhancement of the images is indispensable in order to improve visibility of the details. This paper aims at improving radiogr...

This paper presents a computer aided detection scheme on digital chest radiographs for pneumoconiosis screening. The scheme involves several medical image processing and analysis technologies, i.e. lung segmentation algorithm using the active shape model, image enhancement and features extraction from lung regions, feature down-selection by correlation analysis and clustering method, classifica...

Demonstration of small apical pneumothoraces is supposed to be facilitated by expiratory chest radiographs. This study aimed to analyse the assumed enhancement of visual contrast on expiratory chest radiographs in patients with small apical pneumothoraces. Optical densities (OD) were obtained with a densitometer (X-rite 3001) on 54 paired inspiratory and expiratory chest radiographs of 22 conse...