Enhancement of chest and breast radiographs by automatic spatial filtering

P G Tahoces; J Correa; M Souto; C Gonzalez; L Gomez; J J Vidal

doi:10.1109/42.97582

Enhancement of chest and breast radiographs by automatic spatial filtering

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 1991;10(3):330-5. doi: 10.1109/42.97582.

Authors

P G Tahoces¹, J Correa, M Souto, C Gonzalez, L Gomez, J J Vidal

Affiliation

¹ Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Santiago de Compostela.

PMID: 18222834
DOI: 10.1109/42.97582

Abstract

The authors present a new algorithm to enhance the edges and contrast of chest and breast radiographs while minimally amplifying image noise. The algorithm consists of a linear combination of an original image and two smoothed images obtained from it by using different masks and parameters, followed by the application of nonlinear contrast stretching. The result is an image which retains the high median frequency local variations (edge and contrast-enhancing).