Bonescan-Enhancer

An application for enhancing the raw bone-scans via the usage of Parallel Computing and Image Processing principles, in order to facilitate convenient and efficient diagnosis.

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Performance Comparison

The following are the screenshots for the serial and parallel implementations of the application in consideration, which clearly show that the parallel implementation out-performs the serail code, with a speed-up factor of about 1.4.

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Step-by-Step Output analysis

1. Original Scan

   

2. Action of the Laplacian operator

   

3. Action of the Sobel operator

   

4. Application of a 5×5 Smoothening filter on step-3's Output

   

5. Image mask obtained by multiplying outputs of step-2 and step-4

   

6. Rendering of enhanced scan

   

7. Action of the Power-Law transform