Images in Reproductive Medicine

Fragile image watermarking could be used to authenticate a digital image due to modification or altering. A watermark is embedded into the image. When the image was modified or altered, the watermark is also altered or fragile. One of popular image format is GIF image. Some fragile watermarking algorithms are applied to the single GIF image only, none for animated images. However, we could modi...

chest radiography is a common diagnostic imaging test, which contains an enormous amount of information about a patient. however,its interpretation is highly challenging. the accuracy of the diagnostic process is greatly influenced by image processing algorithms;hence enhancement of the images is indispensable in order to improve visibility of the details. this paper aims at improving radiograp...

With the advance of multimedia technologies in general and diagnostic images technologies specifically, the number of radiographic images is constantly escalating in the biomedical field. This field demands sophisticated systems for management and effective search and retrieval of the radiographic images produced. This paper presents a semantic content-based radiographic image retrieval system ...

Digital radiography has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in dentistry today. To improve vision and diagnosis, dental x-ray software allows image enhancement (eg, adjusting color, density, sharpness, brightness, or contrast). Exporting digital radiographs to a file format compatible with commercial graphic software increases chances that information can be altered, added, or removed in an...

this study was a part of national project to establish and optimize local and national diagnostic guidance levels. this work intends to evaluate image quality and entrance surface air kerma (esak) for patients' radiographic examinations in two north western provinces of country. two hospitals got involved in the present study. the rate of the rejected images and image quality grades were determ...

Histogram Equalization technique is one of the basic methods in image contrast enhancement. Using this method, in the case of images with uniform gray levels (with narrow histogram), causes loss of image detail and the natural look of the image. To overcome this problem and to have a better image contrast enhancement, a new two-step method was proposed. In the first step, the image histogram is...

This paper presents a novel method of no-reference image quality assessment for JPEG encoded images by means of multiresolution analysis using Haar wavelet decomposition. The proposed method takes advantage of the fact that JPEG encoded images are usually contaminated with blockiness artifacts. Blockiness artifact is modeled as a particular edge structure that transforms into a different edge s...

one of the most common positioning errors in panoramic radiography is palatoglossal air space above the apices of the root of maxillary teeth. it causes a radiolucency obscuring the apices of maxillary teeth. in the case of this positioning error, the imaging should be repeated. this causes the patient be exposed to radiation again. to avoid the repetition of exposing harmful x-rays to the pati...