TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 17, No 4: August 2019

A total variation-undecimated wavelet approach to chest radiograph image enhancement

Matilda Wilson (University of Ghana)
James B. H. Acquah (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech)
Anthony Y. Aidoo (Eastern Connecticut State University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2019

Abstract

Most often medical images such as X-Rays have a low dynamic range and many of their targeted features are difficult to identify. Intensity transformations that improve image quality usually rely onwavelet denoising and enhancement typically use the technique of thresholding to obtain better quality medical images. A disadvantage of wavelet thresholding is that even though it adequately removes noise in an image, it introduces unwanted artifacts into the image near discontinuities. We utilize a total variation method and an undecimated wavelet image enhancing algorithm for improving the image quality of chest radiographs. Our approach achieves a high level chest radiograph image deniosing in lung nodules detection while preserving the important features. Moreover, our method results in a high image sensitivity that reduces the average number of false positives on a test set of medical data.

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Journal Info

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TELKOMNIKA

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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