Enhancement of surgical tissue in visual noise

Dariush Ebrahimi; Lorne Rotstein; Stanley J. Hamstra

doi:10.1117/12.535591

12 May 2004 Enhancement of surgical tissue in visual noise

Dariush Ebrahimi, Lorne Rotstein, Stanley J. Hamstra

Proceedings Volume 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535591
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to characterize the natural statistics of surgical images as a first step in exploring the application of methods from vision science to the problem of tissue discrimination in surgery. Field has previously shown that natural images have a simple characteristic spatial structure, with amplitude spectra that decrease with frequency roughly as 1/f. Several subsequent studies have shown that amplitude is generally thought to be proportional to 1/fα where α has been found to be within a fairly narrow range (0.7 -1.5) for natural scenes. Four sets of surgical images were acquired for the current study and their spatial frequency content analyzed. The value of α for these images was found to be 1.59. The same measure for a set of 60 natural images from the Brodatz book of texture gave a value of 1.15. Consequently, we developed examples of image enhancement using a modified histogram equalization technique and a non-linear normalization transform. We conclude that surgical images lack high spatial frequency content, but it is feasible to enhance target structures.

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Dariush Ebrahimi, Lorne Rotstein, and Stanley J. Hamstra "Enhancement of surgical tissue in visual noise", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535591

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