Title
MedGA: A novel evolutionary method for image enhancement in medical imaging systems.
Abstract
•A novel medical image enhancement method based on Genetic Algorithms is proposed.•MedGA enhances images characterized by nearly bimodal gray level histograms.•The fitness function strengthens the two underlying intensity distributions.•MedGA considerably outperforms the classical image enhancement techniques.•MedGA achieves excellent results in terms of signal and perceived image quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.eswa.2018.11.013
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medical imaging systems,Image enhancement,Genetic Algorithms,Magnetic resonance imaging,Bimodal image histogram,Uterine fibroids
Data mining,Histogram,Computer vision,Equalization (audio),Medical imaging,Computer science,Image processing,Image quality,Artificial intelligence,Histogram equalization,Genetic algorithm,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
119
0957-4174
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
29
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonardo Rundo1256.40
Andrea Tangherloni2407.88
Marco S. Nobile314323.69
Carmelo Militello411211.68
Daniela Besozzi539139.10
Giancarlo Mauri62106297.38
Paolo Cazzaniga723527.16