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Medical Image Processing Plain and Simple
About the Author
Introduction
Bits and Bytes
      Digitizing an Image
      Black-White-Gray
      From Grayscale to Numbers
      The Binary System
      From Bits to Megabytes
      Image Grayscale
      Sizing an Image
      Large Images
      Sizes of Typical Medical Images
      Doubling Spatial Resolution
      Scenario 1
      Color Images
      Image Compression
      Compression Ratios
      Compressed Text
      Compressed Images
      How much compression?
      JPEG
Resolution
      Spatial Resolution
      Effect of Lower Spatial Resolution
      Digital Zoom
      Small is Fast
      Contrast Resolution
      Bit Starving
Filters
      The Frequency Spectrum
      The Treble Control
      The Bass Control
      High Pass Filter
      Low Pass Filter
      Scenario 2
      Contrast Stretching
      Histograms
      Look Up Table (LUT) effects
Conclusion


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