Contrast Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Mammograms using Morphological Enhancement and Non-flat Structuring Elements.
Michael A. WirthMatteo FraschiniJennifer LyonPublished in: CBMS (2004)
Keyphrases
- contrast enhancement
- structuring elements
- mammographic images
- low contrast
- image enhancement
- digitized mammograms
- morphological operations
- breast cancer
- digital mammograms
- gray scale
- gray level
- color images
- mathematical morphology
- spatially variant
- histogram equalization
- morphological operators
- morphological filters
- binary images
- multiscale
- image contrast
- enhanced image
- median filter
- unsharp masking
- image processing
- transfer function
- visual quality
- image analysis
- morphological skeleton
- edge detection
- translation invariant
- dilation and erosion
- openings and closings
- color restoration
- pattern spectrum
- co occurrence
- neural network
- dynamic range compression
- adaptive histogram equalization
- breast tissue
- textural features
- texture analysis
- efficient implementation
- partial differential equations
- pattern recognition
- machine learning