Effect of Different Filtering Techniques on Medical and Document Image

Image enhancement is very important stages used in image processing. A normal image enhancement process is using the filtering technique. Filtering helps the problems of the image display and can improvise the quality of the image. The problems that always happened in the image is illumination, noise and under-light images. In addition, these problems also caused a few troubles for image recognition for the daily life of certain people for their work. The objective of this study is to explore and compare a few starts of art filtering techniques based on the mathematical algorithm of the filters and then identifying the best method of the filters. There were a few methods that were selected in this project such as a high pass filter, low pass filter, high boost filter and others. All the selected filter experimented on the medical images and document images. The resulting images were evaluated using the Image Quality Assessments (IQA) which is a global contrast factor (GCF) and signal to noise ratio (SNR). Based on the numerical result, homomorphic low pas filter (HLF) provides a better performance among the other filters in terms of GCF (2.066) and SNR (8.907) value of the selected images.

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