Normalizing by means of zero-mean

Hello friends,

I am working on retinal images and need to make them standard before processing, because some images are dark others are very light. So before processing I am doing the following:

gemiddeld=mean2(DOG)

standaard_afwyking=std2(DOG)

NormalizedArray = (DOG-gemiddeld) ./ standaard_afwyking;

NormalizedArray =((NormalizedArray + 3)./ 6).*255

figure,imshow(NormalizedArray);

This is not working, because the output is just a blank white image.How can I fix this?

[Valeska Pearson]

DOG, is my difference of Gaussian image in the green channel.

Answer 1

[Jos (10584)]

The problem is with the values you pass to IMSHOW. So, first read the help of imshow carefully

doc imshow

To fix this in your case, make sure NormalizedArray is, for instance, a true grayscale image

NormalizedArray = magic(50) ; 
subplot(2,2,1) ; imshow(NormalizedArray)
GS = NormalizedArray ./ max(NormalizedArray(:)) ;
subplot(2,2,2) ; imshow(GS)

Answer 2

[Jan]

What is the type of DOG? Notice, that if NormalizedArray is a double array, all values greater than 1.0 are saturated. The multiplication by 255 looks like you want the image stored as UINT8 array. Then perhaps this helps:

NormArrayU8 = uint8(((NormalizedArray + 3) ./ 6) .* 255);