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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2012.15.5.569

An X-ray Image Panorama System Using Robust Feature Matching and Per ception-Based Image Enhancement  

Wang, Weiwei (Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University Computer Graphics Lab.)
Gwun, Oubong (Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University Computer Graphics Lab.)
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Abstract
This paper presents an x-ray medical image panorama system which can overcome the smallness of the images that exist on a source computer during remote medical processing. In the system, after the standard medical image format DICOM is converted to the PC standard image format, a MSR algorithm is used to enhance X-ray images of low quality. Then SURF and Multi-band blending are applied to generate a panoramic image. Also, this paper evaluates the proposed SURF based system through the average gray value error and image quality criterion with X-ray image data by comparing with a SIFT based system. The results show that the proposed system is superior to SIFT based system in image quality.
Keywords
Image Stitching; MSR; SURF; Multi-band Blending; Remote Cooperation; X-ray images;
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