DocumentCode :
672645
Title :
Modified HL contrast enhancement technique for breast MR images
Author :
Chong, Sau Siong ; Sim, K.S. ; Nia, M.E.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng. & Technol., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya, Malaysia
fYear :
2013
fDate :
8-10 Oct. 2013
Firstpage :
360
Lastpage :
364
Abstract :
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has higher sensitivity than mammography in breast cancer detection. However, the low contrast images produced often process difficulties in segmenting the images into regions of interest. There are various contrast enhancement techniques proposed over the years. Although these techniques shows evident contrast enhancement on general images, most of them are not suitable to apply to breast MRI images due to large portion of dark background and close gray levels between grandular tissues and fatty tissues. In this paper, a modified version of hyperbolic logarithm contrast enhancement technique is introduced. Comparisons are made visually and statistically with several existing contrast enhancement techniques.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cancer; image enhancement; medical image processing; breast MR images; breast MRI images; breast cancer detection; hyperbolic logarithm contrast enhancement technique; magnetic resonance imaging; modified HL contrast enhancement technique; Biomedical imaging; Brightness; Histograms;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0267-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICSIPA.2013.6708033
Filename :
6708033
Link To Document :
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