A novel intuitionistic fuzzy soft set based colonogram enhancement for polyps localization

This article represents a colonogram enhancement approach using intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) and fuzzy soft set (FSS) to improve the visual quality and highlight the local details in enhanced images without artifacts. The proposed method has the advantages of IFSs and fuzzy soft sets (FSSs) which can deal with gray-level ambiguity in colonoscopy images. The combination of IFS and FSS works on intricate color variations with an adaptive parametric maps. First, the S-membership function has been applied on the images to map into intuitionistic fuzzy space. We obtain intuitionistic fuzzy image from source image followed by decomposition of several blocks. Thereafter, the FSS is employed to get subsequent intuitionistic fuzzy soft matrix from individual image block. The FSS utilizes a class of parametric coefficients to obtain the hesitant score of individual pixels in each block through the soft-score measure (SSM). Finally, the proposed method intensifies each membership degree in all blocks in the fuzzy plane using SSM and achieves an enhanced colonogram via defuzzification. Extensive experiment involving large data sets shows that the designed method exhibits better performance in contrast enhancement and visual quality improvement of colonograms for malformation detection (such as a polyps, malignant precancerous cells) in comparison with the state-of-art methods.