METHOD OF GENERATING A MULTISCALE CONTRAST ENHANCED IMAGE

Method of generating a multiscale contrast enhanced image. At least one approximation image is created of the image at one or multiple scales. Translation difference images are created by pixel-wise subtracting the values of an approximation image at scale s and the values of a translated version of the approximation image. A non-linear modification is applied to the values of the translation difference image(s) and at least one enhanced center difference image at a specific scale is computed by combining the modified translation difference images at that scale or a smaller scale with weights w i,j . An enhanced image is computed by applying a reconstruction algorithm to the enhanced center difference images. The non-linear modification of the values of the translation difference images is steered by the values of an orientation map which comprises for each pixel a local direction of interest. In addition or alternatively, at least one enhanced center difference image is computed by anisotropic weighing of the enhanced translation differences with weights steered by the orientation map.