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Contrast stretching techniques deal with manipulation of grey-levels of an image that do not properly incur utilization of the dynamic range of the display system. These are spatial processing techniques which modify or enhance the contrast of the image to yield a visually better image for specific application.
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Bhateja, V., Misra, M., Urooj, S. (2020). Contrast Stretching Techniques for Enhancement of Mammograms. In: Non-Linear Filters for Mammogram Enhancement. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 861. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0442-6_5
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