Pixel’s Quantum Image Enhancement Using Quantum Calculus

The current study provides a quantum calculus-based medical image enhancement technique that dynamically chooses the spatial distribution of image pixel intensity values. The technique focuses on boosting the edges and texture of an image while leaving the smooth areas alone. The brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are used to visualize the tumors that have spread throughout the brain in order to gain a better understanding of the stage of brain cancer. Accurately detecting brain cancer is a complex challenge that the medical system faces when diagnosing the disease. To solve this issue, this research offers a quantum calculus-based MRI image enhancement as a pre-processing step for brain cancer diagnosis. The proposed image enhancement approach improves images with low gray level changes by estimating the pixel’s quantum probability. The suggested image enhancement technique is demonstrated to be robust and resistant to major quality changes on a variety of MRI scan datasets of variable quality. For MRI scans, the BRISQUE “blind/referenceless image spatial quality evaluator” and the NIQE “natural image quality evaluator” measures were 39.38 and 3.58, respectively. The proposed image enhancement model, according to the data, produces the best image quality ratings, and it may be able to aid medical experts in the diagnosis process. The experimental results were achieved using a publicly available collection of MRI scans.     

一种图像增强空域客观评价方法

针对图像增强效果常用主观评价而没法定量客观评价,提出一种空域结合BRISQUE和JND的图像增强客观评价方法。该方法空域内将测试图像分别进行BRISQUE失真评分和JND视觉评分,然后将所得分数以0.5的权重进行加权处理,所得总分即为增强后图像的客观评价得分。为验证所提方法的有效性,进行了系列实验:首先,认证图像失真相同背景亮度增大BRISQUE值不变,而视觉JND值随之改变;其次,认证相同背景亮度不同失真图像的JND值不变,而BRISQUE值不同;最后对增强后的图像应用所提算法进行评分,得到Score最高分为0.790 5,与主观评价结果一致,而PSNR、SSIM的评分最高为∞和1,但都是和原图像本身比较,不能表明图像增强效果。从而证明所提算法能够定量地对图像增强进行客观评价。     

基于亮度阈值效应的无参考图像质量评价方法

目的图像质量的优劣不仅与失真有关,同时与亮度图像的质量有关,而无参考图像质量评价中未考虑到亮度图像的质量对图像整体质量评价的影响,因此引入亮度阈值效应对其亮度图像的质量进行量化评价。方法在BRISQUE算法的基础上进行改进,以快速衰落失真为例,在调整亮度后获取的50幅图像库中进行实验,将失真图像分层为入射分量和反射分量,对入射分量(亮度图像)采用亮度阈值算法,反射分量(反射图像)采用BRISQUE算法,提出一种新的无参考图像质量评价方法。结果文中算法的皮尔逊相关系数(PCC)为0.9982,斯皮尔曼秩相关系数(SROCC)为0.9741。结论由实验数据可知,文中算法在人眼视觉的主观评价上相较于BRISQUE算法有更好的一致性,符合人眼的视觉感知。