introduction breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer among women.  early detection of breast cancer is the key to reducing the associated mortality rate. the presence of microcalcifications clusters (mccs) is one of the earliest signs of breast cancer. due to poor imaging contrast of mammograms and noise contamination, radiologists may overlook some diagnostic signs, specially t...

Fast and accurate ridge detection in fingerprints is essential to each AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint Identification System). Smudged furrows and cut ridges in the image of a finger print are major problems in any AFIS. This paper investigates a new online ridge detection method that reduces the complexity and costs associated with the fingerprint identification procedure. The noise in fingerprint...

We describe the medical image classification task in ImageCLEF 2005– 2009. It evolved from a classification task with 57 classes on a total of 10,000 images into a hierarchical classification task with a very large number of potential classes. Here, we describe how the database and the objectives changed over the years and how state–of–the–art approaches from machine learning and computer visio...

soil salinity is one of the main environmental problems affecting extensive area in the world. there are some problems with traditional data collection methods for soil studies. using the new methods and techniques such as remote sensing could overcome most of these problems. however using these data in areas with uncommon usages needed some researches to find the best calibration between the d...

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by impaired glucose metabolism and demonstration of amyloid plaques. Individual positron emission tomography tracers may reveal specific signs of pathology that is not readily apparent on inspection of another one. Combination of multitracer positron emission tomography imaging  yields promising results. In this paper, 57 Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging ini...