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Medical Image Enhancement: A Review

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Medical imaging modalities play a crucial part in the process of medical diagnosis. The medical images such as X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) need to undergo the enhancement process which aids the medical specialists for the precise identification of illness in the patients. The enhancement techniques are worked on these medical images to improve the visual display for clear medical examining. Cardiac disease is one of the major health problems affecting the people globally. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging modality led to early detection of the cardiac-related ailments in the patients. Hence, it is needed to enhance these CMR images for the precise diagnosis by the medical experts. This paper explores the variety of enhancement methods to betterment the contrast, suppress the noise, enhance the edges, and to retain the naturalness of the medical images. The paper also reviews the enhancement techniques implemented in both spatial domain and frequency domain. Review and analysis of these techniques pave way for making decision to find the optimal algorithm suitable for enhancing the medical images.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, MRIIRS, Faridabad, India

    R. Radhika & Rashima Mahajan

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Mukesh Saraswat

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sarbani Roy

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Chandreyee Chowdhury

  4. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

    Amir H. Gandomi

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Radhika, R., Mahajan, R. (2022). Medical Image Enhancement: A Review. In: Saraswat, M., Roy, S., Chowdhury, C., Gandomi, A.H. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and Applications . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 288. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5120-5_9

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