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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2010
Applicants:
Tom Bertens, Perk, BE;
Pieter Vuylsteke, Mortsel, BE;
Gert Behiels, Edegem, BE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agfa Healthcare NV, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 5/008 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 7/0091 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20152 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method to enhance the contrast of spatially-localized phenomena in an image such as microcalcifications in a mammogram, a multi-scale decomposition is applied to a digital signal representation of the image thereby generating a number of detail images at different scales, the detail signals pertaining to the spatially-localized phenomena having a common polarity (either negative or positive) being modified at at least one scale.