Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Improved Combined Adaptive Outline for Contrast Enhancement of Blood Vessels Subject The topic of the resource Adaptive histogram equalization (AHE); Brightness preserving bi-histogram equalization (BBHE); Contrast enhancement; Histogram equalization (HE) Description An account of the resource Appropriate vascular segmentation is dependent on effective picture pre-processing techniques that improve the contrast of the blood vessels, reduce noise, eliminate non-uniform illumination, highlight thin vessels, and retain background texture. These techniques are necessary for accurate vessel segmentation. Here, both the edge- and texture-smoothed data from the vessel probability map are used in the derivation of the adaptive optimal q-order in the G-L mask. The smooth information is not affected, the textures are maintained, and the contrast of the blood vessels is enhanced, thanks to the proposed filter. In addition to sharpening the focus on the vessels themselves, a Gaussian curve fitting is used to contrast stretch the entire image. Retinal fundus images processed with cerebral DSA are subjected to both qualitative and quantitative assessments of contrast enhancement. Quantitative performance indicators are tabulated and compared to other approaches to show how well this technique works for improving medical images everywhere. The suggested filter is easy to implement, flexible enough to adapt to different images, and effective at increasing both vessel contrast and overall image contrast. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Warrier G.S.; Mahapatra H.; Khuntia M.; Rajesh M.; Vincent R.; Pathak A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived SN Computer Science, Vol-4, No. 5 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02069-5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02069-5</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85169662274&amp;doi=10.1007%2Fs42979-023-02069-5&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=22aed3dbd0bfad5b3673a1e1bdec3f24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85169662274&amp;doi=10.1007%2fs42979-023-02069-5&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=22aed3dbd0bfad5b3673a1e1bdec3f24</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 2662995X Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Warrier G.S., Department of Computer Science, Christ(Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560 073, India; Mahapatra H., Department of Endocrinology, IMS &amp; SUM Hospital, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India, Sevayan Diabetes Centre, Puri, India; Khuntia M., Department of Rural Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India; Rajesh M., School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India; Vincent R., School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India; Pathak A., Department of Computer Science, Shobhit Institute of Engineering &amp; Technology (Deemed to-be University), Meerut, India