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. 2021 Sep 13;7:e620. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.620

Table 2. Pre-processing methods used for dental imaging modality.

Author & Year Enhancement/Noise removal technique
Methods used for Bitewing X-ray
(Lai & Lin, 2008) Adaptive local contrast stretching is used to make the tooth region smoother after that, adaptive morphological enhancement is applied to improve the texture values.
(Prajapati, Desai & Modi, 2012) A median filter is used to eradicate picture impulse noise.
(Mahoor & Abdel-Mottaleb, 2004; Zhou & Abdel-Mottaleb, 2005; Huang et al., 2012) Top hat and bottom hat filters are applied where the teeth become brightened, and the bone and shadow regions obscured.
(Pushparaj, Gurunathan & Arumugam, 2013) Butterworth high pass filter used with a homomorphic filter. In which homomorphic filter compensates the effect of non-uniform illumination.
Methods used for Periapical X-ray
(Harandi & Pourghassem, 2011) Histogram equalization and noise reduction using wavelets, and also make use of spatial filters like Laplacian filter.
(Lin, Huang & Huang, 2012) Average filter with 25 * 25 mask then histogram equalization is used.
(Nuansanong, Kiattisin & Leelasantitham, 2014) Gaussian spatial filter with kernel size 5 * 5 and sigma value 1.4 is fixed.
(Lin et al., 2014) Enhancement is done by combining adaptive power law transformation, local singularity, and bilateral filter.
(Rad et al., 2015) Median filtering is applied to enhance the images
(Purnama et al., 2015) Contrast stretching used to improve the X-ray quality so that it can be easily interpreted and examined correctly
(Jain & Chauhan, 2017) Gaussian filtering employed to make a more smoothed gradient nearby the edges also helps in reducing noise.
(Obuchowicz Rafałand Nurzynska et al., 2018) Histogram equalization (HEQ) and a statistical dominance algorithm (SDA) are initiated.
(Singh & Agarwal, 2018) Median filtering is used to lower noise, and an unsharp marking filter is used to enhance the high-frequency component.
(Datta, Chaki & Modak, 2019) Local averaging is used to eliminate noisy features.
(Kumar, Bhadauria & Singh, 2020) The guided filter is applied with a window size of 3 * 3 and is cast-off towards calculating output pixel size.
Methods used for Panoramic X-rays
(Frejlichowski & Wanat, 2011) Some basic filters are added to select pyramid layers, including sharpening filter and contrast adjustment before image recomposition.
(Vijayakumari et al., 2012) Block analysis and contrast stretching applied.
(Pushparaj et al., 2013) A combination of the Butterworth bandpass filter and the homomorphic filter is used to enhance the edges and illumination.
(Razali et al., 2014) Canny edge detection is applied, where the gaussian filter is used to eliminate the noise.
(Banu et al., 2014) Image inverse and contrast stretching procedures have been used to identify the region of interest.
(Amer & Aqel, 2015) Contrast enhancement with intensity transformations is used to improve the segmentation procedure.
(Poonsri et al., 2016) Image enhancement using adaptive thresholding (Bradley & Roth, 2007).
(Veena Divya, Jatti & Revan Joshi, 2016) The image contrast is balanced to enhance the picture’s appearance and to visualize the cyst or tumor.
(Zak et al., 2017) A combination of top hat/bottom hat filter and adaptive power-law transformation(APLT) is used to enhance images.
(Alsmadi, 2018) Speckle noise is reduced by using a median filter.
(Divya et al., 2019) Negative transformation applied and caries identified by using the difference of contrast improved Image and image negative.
(Banday & Mir, 2019) Adaptive histogram equalization and median filtering are combinedly applied.
(Fariza et al., 2019) Dental X-ray image is processed using CLAHE, and gamma correction is done to improve the contrast.
(Avuçlu & Bacsçiftçi, 2020) Median softening filter applied after contrast stretching.
Methods used for hybrid dataset
(Said et al., 2006) Internal noise is reduced by closing top-hat transformation, which is described by subtracting the picture from its morphological closure.
(Tuan, Ngan & Son, 2016) Background noise is minimized using a Gaussian filter; then, a Gaussian(DoG) filter is used to measure the gradient along the x and y-axis.
Methods used for color images
(Ghaedi et al., 2014) A contrast enhancement focused on the histogram is introduced to the gray-level Image.
(Datta & Chaki, 2015a) Denoising is done by using a wiener filter.
(Datta & Chaki, 2015b) A Wiener filter is applied to eliminate the blurring effect and additive noise.
(Berdouses et al., 2015) Gray level transformation performed.
Methods used for CBCT & CT
(Benyó et al., 2009) Image with high-frequency noise are enhanced by applying a median filter
(Ji, Ong & Foong, 2014) Initially, the intensity range was adjusted, followed by Gaussian filtering with a standard deviation to suppress noise.