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Image Contrast Enhancement Techniques

This document discusses adaptive histogram equalization (AHE) and its improved version, contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), for enhancing images. AHE computes histograms for image sections and redistributes lightness values to improve local contrast, but can produce noise. CLAHE limits contrast to reduce noise while maintaining high spatial frequencies. Sequential processing of CLAHE, median filtering, and edge sharpening can reduce noise while preserving image detail.

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Image Contrast Enhancement Techniques

This document discusses adaptive histogram equalization (AHE) and its improved version, contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), for enhancing images. AHE computes histograms for image sections and redistributes lightness values to improve local contrast, but can produce noise. CLAHE limits contrast to reduce noise while maintaining high spatial frequencies. Sequential processing of CLAHE, median filtering, and edge sharpening can reduce noise while preserving image detail.

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ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM

EQUALIZATION

Angad chahal
Ashish Mane
Dhaval Solanki
Durgesh kesarkar
Rupesh gawade
Histogram Equalization:
 he histogram equalization is an approach to
enhance a given image. The approach is to
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Adaptive histogram equalization:
Adaptive histogram equalization is a computer
image processing technique used to improve contrast
in images.
It computes several histograms, each corresponding
to a distinct section of the image, and uses them to
redistribute the lightness values of the image.
Adaptive histogram equalization is considered an
image enhancement technique capable of improving
an image's local contrast, bringing out more detail in
the image.
Drawback:
It produces noise in the images

This noise can spoil the information content of the


image
Solution:
Contrast limited adaptive
histogram equalization(CLAHE):
CLAHE is improved version of AHE
CLAHE is a technique used to improve the local
contrast of an image.
The CLAHE algorithm partitions the images into
contextual regions and applies the histogram
equalization to each one.
This evens out the distribution of used grey values
and thus makes hidden features of the image more
visible.
The full grey spectrum is used to express the image.
Reduction of noise :
Noise can be reduced while maintaining the high
spatial frequency content of the image by applying a
combination of CLAHE, median filtration and edge
sharpening.

This technique known as Sequential processing can


be recorded into a user macro for repeat application
at any time.
2D minimum filter:
The minimum filter replaces the value of a pixel by the
smallest value of neighboring pixels covered by a NxN
matrix mask.

The size of the mask can be adjusted via the input field
kernel size

If applied to a binary label field the minimum filter


implements a so-called erosion operation. It reduces the
size of a segmented region by removing pixels from its
boundary.
2D maximum filtering:
The maximum filter replaces the value of a pixel by
the largest value of neighboring pixels covered by a
NxN mask.
The size of the mask can be adjusted via the input
field kernel size.
If applied to a binary label field the maximum filter
implements a so-called dilation operation. It enlarges
the size of a segmented region by adding pixels to its
boundary.
2D median filtering:
The median filter is a simple edge-preserving
smoothing filter.
The filter works by sorting pixels covered by a NxN
mask according to their grey value.
The center pixel is then replaced by the median of
these pixels, i.e., the middle entry of the sorted list.
The size of the pixel mask may be adjusted via the
text field labeled kernel size.
Example:
Original image
Image after CLADHE:
Applications:
ADE can be used to enhance image used to visualize
3-D data

It is widely used in medicine industry

It also has some radiological applications

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