Color Medical Image Enhancement Using Y-H Model and Wavelet Homomorphic Filtering
Liang Hua, Zhen Tao Zhou, Hao Feng, Li Ding, Ju Ping Gu, Qi Zhang · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2013
Color medical images are widely used in the field of medical diagnosis. Image enhancement is one of the most important pretreatment methods which can enhance the quality of images. In this paper, a novel color image enhancement method using Y-H model and wavelet homomorhpic filtering is put forward. The chromaticity numbers matrix and intensity numbers matrix of color images are get using Young-Helmholtz (YH) transform. The chromaticity numbers matrix remains unchanged. Wavelet homomorphic filtering method is used to process intensity numbers matrix . The enhanced intensity numbers matrix and formerly chromaticity numbers matrix are processed by Y-H inverse transformation and disply in RGB color space. The method put forward in the paper is successfully used in color medical image enhancement. Experimental results show that the method have characteristics of nondistortion, better visual effect.