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APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
Volume 25, Issue -, Pages 293-308Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.09.004
Keywords
Type II fuzzy set; Hamacher T co norm; Contrast enhancement; Segmentation
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- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India [BT/03/IYBA/2010]
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A contrast enhancement of medical images using Type II fuzzy set theory is suggested. Fuzzy set theory considers uncertainty in the form of membership function but to have better information on uncertainty on the membership function, Type II fuzzy set is considered. Type II fuzzy set considers fuzziness in the membership function. Hamacher T co norm is used as an aggregation operator to form a new membership function using the upper and lower membership function of Type II fuzzy set. The image with the new membership function is an enhanced image. As medical images contain lot of uncertainties, Type II fuzzy set may be a good tool for medical image analysis. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, the results are compared with fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy, and existing Type II fuzzy methods. Experiments on several images show that the proposed Type II fuzzy method performs better than the existing methods. To show the advantage of the proposed enhancement method, detection or extraction of abnormal lesions or blood vessels has been carried out on enhanced images of all the methods. It is observed that the segmented results on the proposed enhanced images are better. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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