Panoramic Dental Radiography Image Enhancement Using Multiscale Mathematical Morphology.

ABSTRACT: Panoramic dental radiography is one of the most used images of the different dental specialties. This radiography provides information about the anatomical structures of the teeth. The correct evaluation of these radiographs is associated with a good quality of the image obtained. In this study, 598 patients were consecutively selected to undergo dental panoramic radiography at the Department of Radiology of the Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad Nacional de Asunción. Contrast enhancement techniques are used to enhance the visual quality of panoramic dental radiographs. Specifically, this article presents a new algorithm for contrast, detail and edge enhancement of panoramic dental radiographs. The proposed algorithm is called Multi-Scale Top-Hat transform powered by Geodesic Reconstruction

SUBMITTER: Roman JCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8124639 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature