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Non-linear enhancement techniques encompass various categories of approaches. Those specific to or commonly applied for processing of medical images include morphological filtering, fuzzy-based enhancement and non-linear filters.
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Bhateja, V., Misra, M., Urooj, S. (2020). Non-Linear Enhancement Techniques for Mammograms. In: Non-Linear Filters for Mammogram Enhancement. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 861. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0442-6_7
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