A comparison of decolorization methods performance for medical color images

In this paper we proposed the preliminary investigation of the performance of some available methods of decolorization applied to medical color images. The performance of the decolorization is objectively measured by the CCPR and CCFR values averaged for three image databases containing color images of skin burns, skin melanoma and eardrum membrane. The preliminary findings will be used for the multimodal image merging and analysis, such as visible and thermal infrared.