This paper proposes a new method of medical image denoising based on a new nonlinear thresholding function in Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) domain. In medical images, noise suppression is a particularly delicate and difficult task. A tradeoff between noise reduction and the preservation of actual image features has to be made in a way that enhances the diagnostically relevant image ...

In this paper, we propose a new robust hybrid watermarking technique based on recently introduced contourlet transform and singular value decomposition. After applying the contourlet transform for the original image, we select the low frequency directional sub band coefficients and apply singular value decomposition. The singular values of the original image are then modified by the singular va...

Medical ultrasound images are widely used for diagnostic purposes. A major problem regarding these images is in their inherent corruption by speckle noise. The presence of speckle noise severely hampers the interpretation and analysis of medical ultrasound images. The objective of the paper is to propose a method for removal of noise in the medical ultrasound images. The image noise content is ...

During the last few decades, there is the continuous development of networking across the globe which simplified their path in data communication, multimedia signal processing and so on. It also ensures there is an effective need of copyright protection in multimedia processing. These data are actually very easy to hack: information becomes vulnerable to interception, copying, tampering or corr...

One of the challenging issues in managing the existing large digital image libraries and databases is Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). The accuracy of image retrieval methods in CBIR is subject to effective extraction of image features such as color, texture, and shape. In this paper, we propose a new image retrieval method using contourlet transform coefficients to index texture of the im...

Removal of noise from image is often the first step in image processing and remains a challenging problem inspite of the sophistication of recent research. Among all noise, speckle noise existing in Satellite images, Medical images and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is definitely to be removed since the details of the image are corrupted. The analysis of despeckling SAR image based on Ba...

A unique method for image enhancement using the nonsubsampled Contourlet transform (NSCT) is presented here. Existing methods for image enhancement cannot capture the geometric information of images and tend to amplify noises when they are applied to noisy images since they cannot distinguish noises from weak edges. In contrast, the nonsubsampled Contourlet transform extracts the geometric info...

This paper provides a comparative study of the performance of different Transform Domain filters like Wavelet, Contourlet, Bandelet and Curvelet with Firefly Algorithm (FA) applied to despeckle Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Initially the feature enhancement and edge detection of speckled SAR image are integrated with improved gain function by shrinking and stretching the Wavelet Co-eff...

We propose an image-based method using Contourlet transform [5] to detect liveness in fingerprint biometric systems. We observe that real and spoof fingerprint images exhibit different textural characteristics. Wavelet transform although widely used for liveness detection is not the ideal one. Wavelets are not very effective in representing images containing lines and contours [5]. Recent Conto...