Automatic SAR Image Enhancement Based on Curvelet Transform and Genetic Algorithm

2012 ◽  
pp. 326-333
Author(s):  
Jie Hu ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Yu Jia
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Curvelet Transform ◽  
Sar Image

Digital Mammograms with Image Enhancement Techniques for Breast Cancer Detection: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saifullah Harith Suradi ◽  
Kamarul Amin Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Cancer Detection ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Curvelet Transform ◽  
Breast Cancer Detection ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform

Background: Digital mammograms with appropriate image enhancement techniques will improve breast cancer detection, and thus increase the survival rates. The objectives of this study were to systematically review and compare various image enhancement techniques in digital mammograms for breast cancer detection. Methods: A literature search was conducted with the use of three online databases namely, Web of Science, Scopus, and ScienceDirect. Developed keywords strategy was used to include only the relevant articles. A Population Intervention Comparison Outcomes (PICO) strategy was used to develop the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Image quality was analyzed quantitatively based on peak signal-noise-ratio (PSNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Absolute Mean Brightness Error (AMBE), Entropy, and Contrast Improvement Index (CII) values. Results: Nine studies with four types of image enhancement techniques were included in this study. Two studies used histogram-based, three studies used frequency-based, one study used fuzzy-based and three studies used filter-based. All studies reported PSNR values whilst only four studies reported MSE, AMBE, Entropy and CII values. Filter-based was the highest PSNR values of 78.93, among other types. For MSE, AMBE, Entropy, and CII values, the highest were frequency-based (7.79), fuzzy-based (93.76), filter-based (7.92), and frequency-based (6.54) respectively. Conclusion: In summary, image quality for each image enhancement technique is varied, especially for breast cancer detection. In this study, the frequency-based of Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) via the UnequiSpaced Fast Fourier Transform (USFFT) shows the most superior among other image enhancement techniques.

scholarly journals An Energy-Based SAR Image Segmentation Method with Weighted Feature

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Guoqing Zhou ◽  
Haotian You
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Spectral Feature ◽  
Curvelet Transform ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Image Texture ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
Image Domain ◽  
Sar Image Segmentation

To extract more structural features, which can contribute to segment a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image accurately, and explore their roles in the segmentation procedure, this paper presents an energy-based SAR image segmentation method with weighted features. To precisely segment a SAR image, multiple structural features are incorporated into a block- and energy-based segmentation model in weighted way. In this paper, the multiple features of a pixel, involving spectral feature obtained from original SAR image, texture and boundary features extracted by a curvelet transform, form a feature vector. All the pixels’ feature vectors form a feature set of a SAR image. To automatically determine the roles of the multiple features in the segmentation procedure, weight variables are assigned to them. All the weight variables form a weight set. Then the image domain is partitioned into a set of blocks by regular tessellation. Afterwards, an energy function and a non-constrained Gibbs probability distribution are used to combine the feature and weight sets to build a block-based energy segmentation model with feature weighted on the partitioned image domain. Further, a reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) algorithm is designed to simulate from the segmentation model. In the RJMCMC algorithm, three move types were designed according to the segmentation model. Finally, the proposed method was tested on the SAR images, and the quantitative and qualitative results demonstrated its effectiveness.

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