X-Ray Image Enhancement Using a Boundary Division Wiener Filter and Wavelet-Based Image Fusion Approach


Sajid Ullah Khan, Wang Yin Chai, Chai Soo See, Amjad Khan, Journal of Information Processing Systems Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35-45, Mar. 2016  

https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.02.0029
Keywords: image enhancement, Image Fusion, Poisson/Impulse Noise, Sharpening, Wavelet transform
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Abstract

To resolve the problems of Poisson/impulse noise, blurriness, and sharpness in degraded X-ray images, a novel and efficient enhancement algorithm based on X-ray image fusion using a discrete wavelet transform is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm consists of two basics. First, it applies the techniques of boundary division to detect Poisson and impulse noise corrupted pixels and then uses the Wiener filter approach to restore those corrupted pixels. Second, it applies the sharpening technique to the same degraded X-ray image. Thus, it has two source X-ray images, which individually preserve the enhancement effects. The details and approximations of these sources X-ray images are fused via different fusion rules in the wavelet domain. The results of the experiment show that the proposed algorithm successfully combines the merits of the Wiener filter and sharpening and achieves a significant proficiency in the enhancement of degraded X-ray images exhibiting Poisson noise, blurriness, and edge details.


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[APA Style]
Khan, S., Chai, W., See, C., & Khan, A. (2016). X-Ray Image Enhancement Using a Boundary Division Wiener Filter and Wavelet-Based Image Fusion Approach. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 12(1), 35-45. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.02.0029.

[IEEE Style]
S. U. Khan, W. Y. Chai, C. S. See, A. Khan, "X-Ray Image Enhancement Using a Boundary Division Wiener Filter and Wavelet-Based Image Fusion Approach," Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 35-45, 2016. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.02.0029.

[ACM Style]
Sajid Ullah Khan, Wang Yin Chai, Chai Soo See, and Amjad Khan. 2016. X-Ray Image Enhancement Using a Boundary Division Wiener Filter and Wavelet-Based Image Fusion Approach. Journal of Information Processing Systems, 12, 1, (2016), 35-45. DOI: 10.3745/JIPS.02.0029.