Described herein is a method for enhancing image data that includes transforming image data from an intensity domain to a wavelet domain to produce wavelet coefficients. A first set of wavelet coefficients of the wavelet coefficients includes low-frequency wavelet coefficients. The method also includes modifying the first set of wavelet coefficients using a coefficient distribution based filter to produce a modified first set of wavelet coefficients. The method includes transforming the modified first set of wavelet coefficients from the wavelet domain to the intensity domain to produce enhanced image data.