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  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiotherapy Physics
  • Image Processing

Background:

  • Radiotherapy portal images offer direct visualization of irradiated volumes but suffer from limited contrast and spatial resolution due to high-energy radiation sources.
  • X-ray imaging modalities are increasingly used for patient positioning verification, often replacing traditional portal imaging.
  • Existing contrast enhancement methods primarily rely on image histogram manipulation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a new method for enhancing local contrast in radiotherapy portal images.
  • To investigate wavelet decomposition and sub-band re-scaling as an alternative to histogram-based techniques.

Main Methods:

  • Portal images were acquired using an electronic portal imaging device with an anthropomorphic phantom.
  • A wavelet decomposition approach was employed, focusing on re-scaling coefficients in high and medium resolution sub-bands.
  • Various re-scaling strategies, transform types, and combinations with adaptive histogram equalization were explored.

Main Results:

  • Uniform amplification of detail sub-bands yielded the best contrast enhancement.
  • Linear re-scaling of high-resolution sub-bands improved fine detail visibility but increased noise.
  • Processing only detail sub-bands minimally altered mean gray levels, requiring no further display adjustments.

Conclusions:

  • Re-scaling detail sub-bands of portal images is an effective method for enhancing local contrast.
  • This wavelet-based approach efficiently improves both local contrast and spatial resolution of portal images.
  • The method offers an alternative to conventional histogram equalization techniques for portal image enhancement.