Haar Wavelet Pyramid-Based Melanoma Skin Cancer Identification With Ensemble of Machine Learning Algorithms

Melanoma is a mortal type of skin cancer. Early detection of melanoma significantly improves the patient’s chances of survival. Detection of melanoma at an early juncture demands expert doctors. The scarcity of such expert doctors is a major issue with healthcare systems globally. Computer-assisted diagnostics may prove helpful in this case. This paper proposes a health informatics system for melanoma identification using machine learning with dermoscopy skin images. In the proposed method, the features of dermoscopy skin images are extracted using the Haar wavelet pyramid various levels. These features are employed to train machine learning algorithms and ensembles for melanoma identification. The consideration of higher levels of Haar Wavelet Pyramid helps speed up the identification process. It is observed that the performance gradually improves from the Haar wavelet pyramid level 4x4 to 16x16, and shows marginal improvement further. The ensembles of machine learning algorithms have shown a boost in performance metrics compared to the use of individual machine learning algorithms.

A Image Registration Algorithm Based on Wavelet Pyramid for CCD Image

Image registration is the key process in analyzing images and data from satellites. Feature-based methods find correspondence pixels which point to the same place between two images. In this paper, a wavelet pyramid hierarchical image registration algorithm is presented. First mismatching exclusion policy on the top of pyramid is used. Other hand search strategy which gets the scope of the search layer on the bottom of the pyramid is adopted. Both of them rely on pair of matching-right points. Experimental results show that the algorithm can significantly improve the search efficiency, and obtain a good match accuracy and reliability.