Medical X-ray image enhancement method based on TV-homomorphic filter

Abstract

X-ray image contains a large amount of information and became important basis in the process of medical diagnosis. The X-ray image has large gray dynamic range but low contrast. This paper proposed a new kind of homomorphic filter which uses total variation model as the transfer function. it has a good balance in both brightness adjustment and details enhancement. And the comparison results were given, the experimental results show that the method can effectively increase the image contrast, highlight the details.