in this paper, we present an edge detection method based on wavelet transform and hessian matrix of image at each pixel. many methods which based on wavelet transform, use wavelet transform to approximate the gradient of image and detect edges by searching the modulus maximum of gradient vectors. in our scheme, we use wavelet transform to approximate hessian matrix of image at each pixel, too. ...

This paper presents a novel technique of image Enhancement which can be widely used in medical and biological imaging to improve the image quality. The principle objective of enhancement is to process an image so that the result is more suitable than the original image for a specific application. Image enhancement enhances weak edges or weak features in an image while keeping strong edges or fe...

A tumor is abnormal tissue that develops by uncontrolled cell division. Regular cells develop in a controlled manner as new cells supplant old or harmed ones. For reasons not completely comprehended, tumor cells reproduce uncontrollably. To exact identification of size and area of brain tumor assumes an indispensable part in the diagnosis of tumors. Initially, wavelet and contourlet transforms ...

Pansharpening is a technique that fuses the information of a low resolution multispectral image (MS) and a high resolution panchromatic image (PAN), usually remote sensing images, to provide a high resolution multispectral image. In the literature, this task has been addressed from different points of view being one of the most popular the wavelets based algorithms. Recently, the contourlet tra...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.12.027 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 416 2202364; fax: +91 416 2243092. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Monica Subashini), sksahoo@ vit.ac.in (S.K. Sahoo). 1 Tel.: +91 416 2202467; fax: +91 416 2243092. 2 Abbreviations used: PCNN, pulse coupled neural networks; ICM, i...

A novel oblivious and highly robust watermarking scheme using Multiple Descriptions (MD) and Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) of the host image is presented in this paper. The watermark is embedded in the Discrete Contourlet Transform domain (CT). Discrete Countourlet Transform (CT) is able to capture the directional edges and contours superior to Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Watermark ...

─ Breast cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer, as well as the leading cause of decease among women. Early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer increases the chances for successful treatment and complete recovery for the patient. Mammography is currently the most sensitive method to detect early breast cancer; however, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most attractive a...

The aim of this study is to propose a suitable and reliable system for better diagnosis and treatment of carotid diseases. In this study, Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system has been proposed for classifying carotid artery plaques using Contourlet features. Carotid images have been acquired for 124 subjects with symptoms (Amaurosis Fugax, Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack) and 133 subjects ...

In this paper, a new multi-resolution tool, namely contourlet transform, is used to extract features for face recognition, which efficiently exploits the local spatial variations in a face image. Multi-resolution ideas, notably the wavelet transform, have been profusely employed for addressing the problem of face recognition. However, theoretical studies indicate that digital contourlet transfo...