15 Briefly, images were blurred and contrast enhanced by local contrast enhancement using adaptive histogram filtering in Fiji (ImageJ 1.45q, NIH, http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/).
The image enhancement technique, adaptive tone mapping, is introduced to improve the perception quality in the next section.
In this paper, we have proposed a simple, efficient, and effective technique for contrast enhancement, called adaptive gamma correction (AGC).
In order to reduce the musical noise which is often a byproduct of spectral enhancement schemes, adaptive smoothing in the cepstral domain is used to estimate the speech PSD [24, 25].
The excessive bacteria and yeast passage reported here may participate in the enhancement of adaptive immune responses to microbial antigens.
Although, the innate IL10 and TNF-α responses were not affected by BCG vaccination, there was some indication of enhancement of adaptive responses beyond PPD after vaccination.
Many studies showed Hsp60 as a ligand for TLR-2 and TLR-4, suggesting a role for Hsp60 as an immunological and endogenous sign of danger that leads to rapid inflammatory cytokine release and enhancement of adaptive Th1-type responses [43], [44], [45], [46].
Furthermore, HDPs are involved in the down-regulation of viral receptors [ 21] and the enhancement of adaptive immunity [ 22].
In immunologically naïve lungs, they downregulate inflammatory reactions, but when challenged with LPS or apoptotic cells they induce phagocytosis by macrophages, pro-inflammatory cytokine production, and enhancement of adaptive immune responses [ 46].
