Title
Linear feature enhancement based on morphological operation and Gabor function
Abstract
In many image processing tasks, feature enhancement is an important preprocessing step. It is the process of adjusting images so that the results are more suitable for analysis. Good enhancement results of linear features such as vessels or neurites can be inputs for segmentation or tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel linear feature enhancement method based on morphological operation and Gabor function, which can enhance and smooth linear features. We use and improve the Hessian matrix to calculate the orientation information for our directional morphological operation and Gabor smoothing. An approach for junction enhancement in each branch is also proposed here. We present the results of our algorithm on images of different types. The obtained outputs show that the proposed approach can achieve very good results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2425836.2425857
IVCNZ
Keywords
Field
DocType
directional morphological operation,junction enhancement,smooth linear feature,gabor smoothing,novel linear feature enhancement,linear feature,feature enhancement,good enhancement result,good result,gabor function,hessian,junction
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Image processing,Hessian matrix,Preprocessor,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ran Su1283.36
Changming Sun289588.21
Chao Zhang382.73
Tuan Pham450373.75