TY - GEN
T1 - Breast sonogram and mammogram enhancement using hybrid and repetitive smoothing-sharpening technique
AU - Al-Kindi, Sadeer G.
AU - Al-Kindi, Ghassan A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A novel hybrid and repetitive smoothing-sharpening (HRSST) technique is proposed and its impact is assessed to beneficially enhance sonogram and mammogram images. The technique aims to gain and combine the advantages of both the sharpening process that aims to highlight sudden changes in the image intensity, with the advantages of iterative image smoothing, which is usually applied to remove random noise from digital images. Nevertheless the developed technique also eliminates the drawbacks of each of the two sharpening and smoothing techniques resulting from their individual application in image processing field. The proposed technique is tested on both breast ultra-sound (BUS) as well as breast X-ray mammograms. Results show that the proposed methodology has high potential to advantageously enhance the image contrast hence giving extra aid to radiologists to detect and classify sonograms and mammograms
AB - A novel hybrid and repetitive smoothing-sharpening (HRSST) technique is proposed and its impact is assessed to beneficially enhance sonogram and mammogram images. The technique aims to gain and combine the advantages of both the sharpening process that aims to highlight sudden changes in the image intensity, with the advantages of iterative image smoothing, which is usually applied to remove random noise from digital images. Nevertheless the developed technique also eliminates the drawbacks of each of the two sharpening and smoothing techniques resulting from their individual application in image processing field. The proposed technique is tested on both breast ultra-sound (BUS) as well as breast X-ray mammograms. Results show that the proposed methodology has high potential to advantageously enhance the image contrast hence giving extra aid to radiologists to detect and classify sonograms and mammograms
KW - Hybrid image enhancement
KW - Mammogram enhancement
KW - Repetitive image enhancement
KW - Sonogram enhancement
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U2 - 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752160
DO - 10.1109/MECBME.2011.5752160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957892130
SN - 9781424470006
T3 - 2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011
SP - 446
EP - 449
BT - 2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011
T2 - 2011 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2011
Y2 - 21 February 2011 through 24 February 2011
ER -