Abstract
To improve the feature extraction performance in vascular medical images, a multi-scale Retinex medical image enhancement algorithm based on a four-step method is proposed. This method is based on the multi-scale Retinex enhancement method, which divides the entire enhancement process into four steps: The first step is to reduce the overall complexity of the enhancement process through block processing; second, perform Retinex enhancement in each sub-block image; the third step is to optimize the connection area of each sub-block; and the fourth step is to highlight detailed features through gradient filtering. During the experiment, three different images were enhanced. The experimental results show that the proposed method can be used in enhancing the vascular features in medical images and be extended to other application fields. This method can effectively suppress the blurring and halo of the original image, while achieving enhancement effects and better protecting detailed features. From the four sets of indicators, the proposed method has shown more significant improvement than both reference methods. Regarding information entropy, the doubles have increased by a maximum of 96.2% and a minimum of 30.3%.
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