Coherence Enhancement Based on Recursive Anisotropic Scale-Space with Adaptive Kernelsopen access
- Authors
- Sardorbek, Numonov; Sohn, Bong-Soo; Hong, Byung-Woo
- Issue Date
- Aug-2020
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- curvilinear structure enhancement; coherence enhancement; anisotropic diffusion; anisotropic scale-space; structure tensor; local orientation
- Citation
- APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, v.10, no.15
- Journal Title
- APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
- Volume
- 10
- Number
- 15
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/43345
- DOI
- 10.3390/app10155079
- ISSN
- 2076-3417
2076-3417
- Abstract
- The reduction of unnecessary details is important in a variety of imaging tasks. Image denoising can be generally formulated as a diffusion process that iteratively suppresses undesirable image features with high variance. We propose a recursive diffusion process that simultaneously computes the local geometrical property of the image features and determines the size and shape of the diffusion kernel, leading to an anisotropic scale-space. In the construction of the proposed anisotropic scale-space, image features due to undesirable noise are suppressed while significant geometrical image features such as edges and corners are preserved across the scale-space. The diffusion kernels are iteratively determined based on the local geometrical properties of the image features. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm in the detection of curvilinear features using simple yet effective synthetic and real images. The algorithm is quantitatively evaluated based on the identification of fissures in lung CT imagery. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can be used for the detection of linear or curvilinear structures in a variety of images ranging from satellite to medical images.
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