A Study on Weak Edge Detection of COVID-19’s CT Images Based on Histogram Equalization and Improved Canny Algorithm

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Table 2: A Study on Weak Edge Detection of COVID-19’s CT Images Based on Histogram Equalization and Improved Canny Algorithm 