Method of Improved Fuzzy Contrast Combined Adaptive Threshold in NSCT for Medical Image Enhancement

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<div>The processing results of a same image when<i> r,</i> respectively, take values of 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8.</div>

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Figure 3: Method of Improved Fuzzy Contrast Combined Adaptive Threshold in NSCT for Medical Image Enhancement 