Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing (융합신호처리학회논문지)

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A Study on the Image Enhancement Method of Digital Mammogram in the Wavelet Domain

웨이블렛 영역에서 디지털 맘모그램의 영상향상 방법에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2011.11.16
  • Accepted : 2012.02.02
  • Published : 2012.01.30
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Abstract

Digital mammogram is effective for detecting the micro-calcification that is early symptom of breast cancer. In the digital mammogram, many image processing techniques have been studied for accurate diagnosis and efficient treatment of micro-calcification lesion. The wavelet based multi-scale method was mainly used to enhance the image contrast. This paper presents an advanced mammography enhancement method which is based both on the brightness and the contrast enhancement in the wavelet domain. The proposed method normalizes a dynamic range using histogram of the image. The brightness is enhanced by modifying coefficients of low frequency components, and the contrast is enhanced by coefficients of high frequency component based on the multi-scale contrast measure. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of the image enhancement over the existing methods.

디지털 맘모그램은 유방암의 초기 증상중 하나인 미세 석회화 발견에 장점을 가지고 있다. 디지털 맘모그램에서 미세석회화 병변의 정확한 진단과 효율적인 치료를 위하여 많은 영상처리 기술들이 연구되어 졌다. 특히 영상의 대비향상을 위하여 웨이블렛 기반 멀티스케일 방법이 주로 사용되었다. 본 논문은 웨이블렛 영역에서 밝기와 대비향상을 기반으로 한 디지털 맘모그램의 향상 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 영상의 히스토그램을 이용하여 동적 범위를 정규화 한다. 영상의 밝기는 저주파수 성분의 계수들을 수정하여 향상시키고, 대비는 대비척도를 기반으로 고주파수 성분의 계수들을 수정하여 향상시킨다. 제안된 방법은 실험결과에서 기존 방법에 비해 우수한 향상 성능을 보였다.

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