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An important concept common to many image enhancement operations is that of a histogram, which is simply a count (or relative frequency, if normalized) of the gray levels in the image. Image enhancement by histogram modeling is a useful and powerful technique. Analysis of the histogram gives useful information about image contrast. Image histograms are important in many areas of image processing, most notably compression, segmentation, and thresholding.