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mage into the workspace, adjust the contrast in the image, and then write the adjusted

bles and close open figure windows.

imread command. The example reads one of the sample images included with the

le named pout.tif , and stores it in an array named I . imread infers from the file that the

le Format (TIFF).

nction. You can also view an image in the Image Viewer app. The imtool function opens

an integrated environment for displaying images and performing some common image
pp provides all the image display capabilities of imshow but also provides access to several
images, such as scroll bars, the Pixel Region tool, Image Information tool, and the

ars in the Workspace

the image data in the workspace, using the whos command. You can also check the

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ensities. The image pout.tif is a somewhat low contrast image. To see the distribution of

gram by calling the imhist function. (Precede the call to imhist with the figure command
e the display of the image I in the current figure window.) Notice how the histogram

image is rather narrow. The range does not cover the potential range of [0, 255], and is
ould result in good contrast.

histeq function. Histogram equalization spreads the intensity values over the full

(The toolbox includes several other functions that perform contrast adjustment, including
active tools such as the Adjust Contrast tool, available in the Image Viewer.)

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e a histogram of the equalized image I2 . If you compare the two histograms, you can see

d out over the entire range than the histogram of I .

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disk file, using the imwrite function. This example includes the filename extension
function writes the image to a file in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, but you

ewly Written File

e, using the imfinfo function. The imfinfo function returns information about the image
h, and height.

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