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The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with its origin in China has spread rapidly to other nations and infected millions of people In this context, this paper proposes the development of algorithm that enhances the details of images and assists the doctors in knowing the exact location of affected area The proposed technique improvises the most popular image enhancement algorithm, namely, multiscale retinex and adjusts the parameters to intensify the details of chest X-ray/CT images of COVID-19 patients Multiscale retinex (MSR) is human perception-related enhancement algorithm which improves intensity, contrast, and sharpness in medical image through dynamic range compression The proposed scheme improves the details of images and validates the resulting images using novel metric called wavelet energy The proposed study is evaluated on images of COVID-19 patients have been obtained from the open-source GitHub repository Considering the experimental result presented and performance metric, the proposed algorithm has provided important details to doctors in making right decision © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
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