An adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm is presented in this paper, in which the contrast gain is determined by mapping the local standard deviation (LSD) histogram of an image to a Gaussian distribution func...An adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm is presented in this paper, in which the contrast gain is determined by mapping the local standard deviation (LSD) histogram of an image to a Gaussian distribution function. The contrast gain is nonlinearly adjusted to avoid noise overenhancement and ringing artifacts while improving the detail contrast with less computational burden. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated with radiological images and compared with other algorithms.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No:3 963 0 1 1 0 ) the National Key Technologies R&D Programme under Con-tract96-92 0 -1 2 -0 1
文摘An adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm is presented in this paper, in which the contrast gain is determined by mapping the local standard deviation (LSD) histogram of an image to a Gaussian distribution function. The contrast gain is nonlinearly adjusted to avoid noise overenhancement and ringing artifacts while improving the detail contrast with less computational burden. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated with radiological images and compared with other algorithms.