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Image Handling - Grey Levels


The size of an image is partly dependent on the number of grey shades or colours represented. You can see here the effect of decreasing the number of shades in an image.

A typical medical image might have 2048 shades of grey


32 grey shades

16 grey shades

8 grey shades

4 grey shades
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