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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 618536, 10 pages
Texture Enhancement for Medical Images Based on Fractional Differential Masks
1Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Received 13 January 2013; Revised 6 March 2013; Accepted 6 March 2013
Academic Editor: Thabet Abdeljawad
Copyright © 2013 Hamid A. Jalab and Rabha W. Ibrahim. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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