Software Filtering Applications for the Analysis of Dental Images

Abstract

Even if digital radiography is performed using modern procedures, which allow viewing and enlarging the image on the computer monitor, sometimes, due to the distortions introduced by the equipment or the need to perform a thorough analysis with a high degree of precision, image processing is required. For this matter, in this paper we present a software application created to help the dental practitioners, when they need a clear image, to discover the dental diseases or other submicroscopic problems on the dental surface, in the incipient phase, bone loss or any other problems that cannot be seen from a medical image, mainly due to the distortions introduced by the equipment. The advantages of dental image processing consist of brightness adjustment (attenuation, accentuation), contrast adjustment (attenuation, accentuation), image negation, histogram equalization, color transformation or noise removal. The paper describes the software accomplishment and implementation of filtering algorithms, which are efficient compared to the existing solutions, which can be used to improve the quality of the medical imaging. The algorithms, implemented in Java, are obtained by modifying the operators and procedures of the fundamental algorithms