• A NOVEL APPROACH FOR ENHANCEMENT OF X-RAY MEDICAL IMAGES USING THE POINT PROCESSING OPERATIONS

Abstract

Enhancement of medical Image is a big challenge and a serious problem. In this paper, the various point processing operations are performed on the chest X-ray image for detecting the breathlessness of 17 yrs old girl. Basically this X -ray medical image is of poor quality. Basic aim of paper is to improve the image quality of the X-ray image. Various image quality measures have been applied to find the performance of the image enhancement. In this paper, the following activities are taken up to draw the results: Study of various point processing techniques and their effect on medical images; Study and implementation of various point processing operations available in the literature and their relative performance comparison with the proposed point processing operation.