repeating x-ray radiographs, as a common problem in radiology units, represent additional, non-billable costs due to increased film, chemistry, and equipment use as well as increased personnel time. furthermore, patients receive additional radiation exposure from repetitions and must remain on the premises until the second exam is completed. compounding the overt negative financial impact on th...

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...

up to 19% of breast malignancies may be missed by conventional imaging techniques, especially when they are concurrent or co-located with other benign lesions. however, more sensitive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (mri), are often too expensive for routine use in developing countries. contrast-enhanced, dual-energy digital mammography (cesm) is a recently introduced imaging mod...

Digital Image enhancement provides a multitude of choices for improving the visual quality of radiographic images. When the details of radiographic image are lost due to various reasons, image enhancement has been applied. Many algorithms have been proposed for image enhancement in the past decade. Contrast improvement algorithms are used to enhance image contrast and some algorithms come with ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In periapical radiographic technique, the changes will be visible only after considerable deposi-tion 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 M...

This paper presents some image processing techniques that can be used for radiographic image enhancement. Contrast enhancement, filtering, denoising, and interpolation processes are carried out in this paper. Contrast enhancement is carried out using adaptive histogram equalization. Filtering is carried out using median, Wiener, Lee, and Kuan filters. Wavelet and curvelet transforms are used fo...

objectives : optimum viewing conditions facilitate identification of radiographic details and decrease the need for retakes, patients’ costs and radiation dose. this study sought to evaluate the effects of different viewing conditions on radiographic interpretation. materials and methods: this diagnostic study was performed by evaluating radiograph of a 7mm-thick aluminum block, in which 10 hol...

Real-time digital radiography is an important developmental tendency for radiographic inspection and diagnosis technique, and enhancement of image is the key to improve resolution and sensitivity of radiographic inspection. In this paper, the algorithm and character of Rank-Order filter is discussed with great emphasis. Rank-Order filter is one of nonlinear filter, All the methods are used to p...

The contrast enhancement technique used manipulates the DCT coefficients of a JPEG image to improve its quality. It is carried out in the decompression stage so that the compressibility of the image is not affected. Since DCT and its inverse transform IDCT are performed on 8 x 8 blocks of pixels, any image processing algorithm implemented in the transform domain produces flaws known as blocking...