This book covers the classical methods in image processing and introduces many recent applications. The described applications span a broad range of fields, including medical and dental imaging, multimedia search and retrieval, and tracking and security. The book opens with a description of the physical process of image formation and color perception. Several color spaces are defined and severa...

Wavelets are powerful mechanisms for analyzing and processing digital signals. The wavelet transform translates the time-amplitude representation of a signal to a time-frequency representation that is encapsulated as a set of wavelet coefficients. These wavelet coefficients can be manipulated in a frequency-dependent manner to achieve various digital signal processing effects. The inverse wavel...

In biomedical signal processing, the aim is to extract clinically, biochemically or pharmaceutically relevant information in order to enable an improved medical diagnosis. All living things, from cells to organism, deliver signals of biological origin. Such signals can be electric, mechanical, or chemical. All such signals can be of interest for diagnosis, for patient monitoring and biomedical ...