TOC Front Cover 2 Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 92 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 Contributors 9 Preface 11 Chapter 1. Image Enhancement 15 I. Outlining the Task 15 II. Enhancement by Means of Gray-Scale Transformations 18 III. Enhancing The Uniformity of Homogeneous Regions by Smoothing 23 IV. Shading Compensation 34 V. Local Contrast Enhancement 40 VI. Detail Enhancement 52 VII. Line Patterns Enhancement 66 VIII. Enhancement of Binary Images 78 Front Cover 2 Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 92 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 Contributors 9 Preface 11 Chapter 1. Image Enhancement 15 I. Outlining the Task 15 II. Enhancement by Means of Gray-Scale Transformations 18 III. Enhancing The Uniformity of Homogeneous Regions by Smoothing 23 IV. Shading Compensation 34 V. Local Contrast Enhancement 40 VI. Detail Enhancement 52 VII. Line Patterns Enhancement 66 VIII. Enhancement of Binary Images 78 References 89 Chapter 2. Electromagnetic Propagation and Field Behavior in Highly Anisotropic Media 93 I. Introduction 94 II. Materials 95 III. Conductivity Tensor for Carriers and Fields 97 IV. Anisotropic Energy Bands 99 V. Quantum Phenomena from Magnetic Fields 102 VI. Band Structure Anisotropy Effect on Conductivity Tensors 104 VII. Variational Formula for the Propagation Constant 107 VIII. Finite-Element Formulation for Propagating Structures 108 IX. Planer Guiding Structures 109 X. Magnetoplasma Permittivity Tensor 128 XI. Chiral and Chiral-Ferrite Media 131 XII. Vector Variational and Weighted Residual Finite Element Procedures for Highly Anisotropic Media 146 XIII. Ferrite Media 172 XIV. Numerically Calculated Results for Guided- Wave Structures 197 XV. Overall Conclusion 214 References 215 Index 229 Show more