Retrospective illumination correction of retinal images.

A method for correction of nonhomogenous illumination based on optimization of parameters of B-spline shading model with respect to Shannon's entropy is presented. The evaluation of Shannon's entropy is based on Parzen windowing method (Mangin, 2000) with the spline-based shading model. This allows...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging pp. 10p - 11
Autores principales: Kubecka, Libor, Jan, Jiri, Kolar, Radim
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
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          Kubecka, Libor
          Jan, Jiri
          Kolar, Radim
        affil: The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
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          Radiographic Image Enhancement Methods
          Retina Radiography
          Tomography
          Algorithms
          Evaluation Research
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          Human
          Models, Biological
      ab: A method for correction of nonhomogenous illumination based on optimization of parameters of B-spline shading model with respect to Shannon's entropy is presented. The evaluation of Shannon's entropy is based on Parzen windowing method (Mangin, 2000) with the spline-based shading model. This allows us to express the derivatives of the entropy criterion analytically, which enables efficient use of gradient-based optimization algorithms. Seven different gradient- and nongradient-based optimization algorithms were initially tested on a set of 40 simulated retinal images, generated by a model of the respective image acquisition system. Among the tested optimizers, the gradient-based optimizer with varying step has shown to have the fastest convergence while providing the best precision. The final algorithm proved to be able of suppressing approximately 70% of the artificially introduced non-homogenous illumination. To assess the practical utility of the method, it was qualitatively tested on a set of 336 real retinal images; it proved the ability of eliminating the illumination inhomogeneity substantially in most of cases. The application field of this method is especially in preprocessing of retinal images, as preparation for reliable segmentation or registration.
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