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...

different approaches have been proposed for feature selection to obtain suitable features subset among all features. these methods search feature space for feature subsets which satisfies some criteria or optimizes several objective functions. the objective functions are divided into two main groups: filter and wrapper methods.  in filter methods, features subsets are selected due to some measu...

bivariate features, obtained from multichannel electroencephalogram (eeg) recordings, quantify the relation between different brain regions. studies based on bivariate features have shown optimistic results for tackling epileptic seizure prediction problem in patients suffering from refractory epilepsy. a new bivariate approach using univariate features is proposed here. differences and ratios ...

Targets and objects registration and tracking in a sequence of images play an important role in various areas. One of the methods in image registration is feature-based algorithm which is accomplished in two steps. The first step includes finding features of sensed and reference images. In this step, a scale space is used to reduce the sensitivity of detected features to the scale changes. Afterw...

classification ensemble, which uses the weighed polling of outputs, is the art of combining a set of basic classifiers for generating high-performance, robust and more stable results. this study aims to improve the results of identifying the persian handwritten letters using error correcting output coding (ecoc) ensemble method. furthermore, the feature selection is used to reduce the costs of ...

in this paper, first, an initial feature vector for vocal fold pathology diagnosis is proposed. then, for optimizing the initial feature vector, a genetic algorithm is proposed. some experiments are carried out for evaluating and comparing the classification accuracies which are obtained by the use of the different classifiers (ensemble of decision tree, discriminant analysis and k-nearest neig...