Contrast enhancement of computed tomography images by adaptive histogram equalization-application for improved ischemic stroke detection

• Main Authors: Tso, Chih Ping., Sim, K. S., Tan, T. L., Chong, A. K.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104294; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16988
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The visualization of computed tomography brain images is basically done by performing the window setting, which stretches an image from the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine format into the standard grayscale format. However, the standard window setting does not provide a good contrast...