Morphology-Based Homomorphic Filter for Contrast Enhancement of Mammographic Images

Abstract

In this paper, a new MBHF(Morphology-Based Homomorphic filter) is presented to enhance contrast in mammographic images. The MBH filtering is performed based on the morphological sub-bands, in which an image is morphologically decomposed. The filter is designed to have optimal gain and structuring element in each sub-band through differential evolution. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the contrast in mammographic images such that an evaluation criterion, WPSNR(Weighted Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) which takes into account human visual system is increased compared with a wavelet-based Homomorphic filter.