A Digital Grayscale Generation Equipment for Image Display Standardization

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Lines 16-18 should be included in the abstract.

Thanks. We put the relevant content at the end of the abstract (line28-30).

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Line 42 is not cl. ear. Clarify "DICOM by NEMA".

The full name of the shortcut words has been added on line 46-48.

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The introduction is limited and has no research strength.

Thanks for your careful proofreading! We add relevant study on line 55-64 to the original to make it more in-depth and understandable.

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Line 58, reference [16] is out of format. The same applies to line 217.

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In lines 56-66, review the paragraph and eliminate spaces between lines and formatting the acronyms according to the journal. The same happens between lines 149-170.

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In the section on materials and methods you should structure what you are going to do. In this way you can follow the whole study developed.

We add the structure describe context in 2.1 to show our whole study.

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Line 59, reference equation 1 according to the journal.

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Line 74, eliminate space between high-precision [ ] (bit depth)

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In the first figure appears : Figure1. Add space between Figure and 1.

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Line 80, 82-85, the characters should be marked to avoid confusion with the text. For example, this could be "A", "B", "C", "D" and "E".

Thanks, and we change the expression to  "A", "B", "C", "D" and "E" in section 2.2.

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The letters in the image are not well appreciated, it is necessary to give it more contrast.

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In lines 86 and 87 figures 2 and 3 are quoted differently from line 88. It is necessary to establish a standard criterion throughout the document.

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The two figures should not appear in a consecutive manner; it is recommended that the figures appear after their citation in the text.

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In line 110, the figure is cited: "figure.5" however in line 88, "Figure 3" appears and in line 87, "Fig.3". It is necessary to standardize the references to the figures. Same situation in line 111. The figure 3 is not clear. Translate the data or explain it.

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Table 1 is not in the format of the journal. It should be corrected.

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It is not appropriate to put table 1, table 2, figure 4 and figure 5 one after the other and without explanation. Figure 5 is cited in line 110 and its corresponding figure is in line 126.

We adjust the position of the figures and tables, and add some explanation about it.

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Lines 132 and 140 standardize the citation of the figures.

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Figure 6 does not appear well. The image needs to be made more high quality.

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Line 150, "as described in 2.3" What is 2.3?

It means section2.3 in the text

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Check equation (7) on line 200. The same for equation (8) on line 206.

We find nothing wrong after checking it and we guess maybe the version problem of Mathtype. We did some adjustment but not ensure it works or not.

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The discussion and conclusions should be strengthened.

We have strengthened the two sections.

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In general, the quality and size of the images need to be improved.

We put new figures with higher quality and bigger size.

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Most of the references are very old. More recent papers should be cited. In addition, there are many errors in style and content of the references. For example: reference 22 contains several errors: Rubén Casado, Younas M . Emerging trends and technologies in big data processing [J]. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, 2014, 27(8):n/a-n/a. Reference 21, a mistake in the journal. Reference 23 containing "VOLUME 7" is incorrect and the year is misplaced. In general, check all references.

We have updated some references and corrected the format of all references according to the template.

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Abstract: from the text, it is is not clear what are the current needs and what is your contribution/solution. E.g. in line 25 you can put “In this work, a novel equipment is…” At the end of the abstract, you should add a sentence that more accurately summarizes the results obtained, not just the information that it is useful for image signal standardization.

Thanks a lot, and we add a sentence that more accurately summarizes the results obtained on line28-30.

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The introduction chapter is quite short and does not cover the state of art properly and in detail. The sentence in line 32 must have 4 references? There are no other works dealing with the topic of traceable measurement of grayscale to luminance? Or any other similar approaches? Literature review needs to be broader and more in-depth.

Thanks, we have strengthen the introduction to answer these question. In simply, the relation works mainly study on the method to identify and distinguish the grayscale from a picture. Because most research only use grayscale as a relative parameter, so they did not pay attention to the standardization of grayscale. We did it firsty.

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Avoid writing in the first person

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Improve article formatting (e.g. equations numbering is not at the same position)

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Line 60 eq to Equation

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Line 64 80 86 110 132 (and maybe others) figure to Figure

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Line 64 describe shortcuts AM FM

We added the explanation of AM and FM on line 88.

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Figure 2 captions (A,B,C...) are not readable and contrasting enough

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Line 79 put the section on the new page

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Almost all equations are slightly shifted up, which makes also strange formatting in the text. It is hard to read than.

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All figures can be bigger.

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Figure 5 is referred in the text before Figure 4. Switch the order.

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Line 89 the shortcut MDM is not explained but in Line 96

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Figure 6 the captions in Chinese have no value for the reader. Delete the image of put English captions.

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Line 199 Tabel 1 and 2 is not referred in the text

We added relevant instructions in section 2.3.

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Line 147 put results on the new page

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Line 154 what does it mean (No.n)?

It means the n^th gray level. For example, there are 256 gray levels in an 8-bit grayscale image, and the No.200 means the 200^th gray level.

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Figure 7 8 the measured points should be marked in the graphs

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Figure 7 scale of x-axes can be in whole minutes (not x100)

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Line 200 the formatting of equation is broken

We find nothing wrong after checking it and we guess maybe the version problem of Mathtype. We did some adjustment but not ensure it works or not.

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Line 202 table to Table

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Line 211 clculate to calculate

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Line 185 meaningless/not ended sentence

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Table 4 is not referred in text

We changed Table 4 as Table 6 and added instructions about it.

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Line 211 what terminal was used?

The photometer PR655 was used in the experiment.

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Discussion or Conclusion should be more in-depth. There is no comment about the advantages/disadvantages of the proposed solution or the results. There is no comparison to other solutions or approaches thus it's not possible to assess the efficiency of the proposed work.

We have strengthened these two section, and declare the innovation clearly. As additional description in ‘introduction’, we do this study firstly, so the efficiency of this work is we firstly provide the standardization and traceability of grayscale. Thus the images can be transmitted, display and identified consistently ,So it can be used in  medical image, military image and remote image, etc.

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Ref. [1] is difficult to reach. I suggest adding an internet link. The introduction literature should be discussed more in-depth or add some new references. Add references from MDPI Publishing House. I am convinced that this will improve the recognition of the article

We added an internet link of Ref.[1] and several papers about research on GSDF or image grayscale display. In the Introduction we completed relevant study introduction on line 55-64.