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Image magnification takes important part during medical examination. It is especially very helpful in observing small details and their manual measurements. There are a number of magnification methods, however most of them cause image distortions. The paper presents a fractal magnification method, which allows minimizing these negative effects besides the blocks effect.
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Kwiatkowski, J., Walczak, W. (2008). Fractal Magnification of Medical Images. In: Pietka, E., Kawa, J. (eds) Information Technologies in Biomedicine. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68168-7_8
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