A skewness reformed complex diffusion based unsharp masking for the restoration and enhancement of Poisson noise corrupted mammograms

Kumar, Ashavani; Kumar, Pradeep; Srivastava, S. P.

doi:10.1016/j.bspc.2021.103421

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“…Yan et al [13] proposed Bi-SCM: bidirectional spiking cortical model an adaptive unsharp mask using a bio-inspired neural network. To improve the x-ray, Skewness Reformed Complex Diffusion (SRCD) is proposed in [14] where the skewness of the images is used as a parameter to configure the smoothing filtering of the unsharp mask.…”

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Gradient-adaptive Nonlinear Sharpening for Dental Radiographs

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2023

Int. j. electr. comput. eng. syst. (Online)

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Unsharp Masking is a popular image processing technique used for improving the sharpness of structures on dental radiographs. However, it produces overshoot artefact and intolerably amplifies noise. On radiographs, the overshoot artefact often resembles the indications of prosthesis misfit, pathosis, and pathological features associated with restorations. A noise- robust alternative to the Unsharp Masking algorithm, termed Gradient-adaptive Nonlinear Sharpening (GNS) which is free from overshoot and discontinuity artefacts, is proposed in this paper. In GNS, the product of the arbitrary scalar termed as ‘scale’ and the difference between the output of the Adaptive Edge Smoothing Filter (AESF) and the input image, weighted by the normalized gradient magnitude is added to the input image. AESF is a locally-adaptive 2D Gaussian smoothing kernel whose variance is directly proportional to the local value of the gradient magnitude. The dataset employed in this paper is downloaded from the Mendeley data repository having annotated panoramic dental radiographs of 116 patients. On 116 dental radiographs, the values of Saturation Evaluation Index (SEI), Sharpness of Ridges (SOR), Edge Model Based Contrast Metric (EMBCM), and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) exhibited by the Unsharp Masking are 0.0048 ± 0.0021, 4.4 × 1013 ± 3.8 × 1013, 0.2634 ± 0.2732 and 0.9898 ± 0.0122. The values of these quality metrics corresponding to the GNS are 0.0042 ± 0.0017, 2.2 × 1013 ± 1.8 × 1013, 0.5224 ± 0.1825, and 1.0094 ± 0.0094. GNS exhibited lower values of SEI and SOR and higher values of EMBCM and VIF, compared to the Unsharp Masking. Lower values of SEI and SOR, respectively indicate that GNS is free from overshoot artefact and saturation and the quality of edges in the output images of GNS is less affected by noise. Higher values of EMBCM and VIF, respectively confirm that GNS is free from haloes as it produces thin and sharp edges and the sharpened images are of good information fidelity.

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