New Technique for Image Fusion Using DDWT and PSO In Medical field

Image fusion is a process where multiple images (more than one) from different or same images of object are combined to form a single resultant fused image. This fused image is more informative, descriptive and qualitative as compared to its original input images or than individual images. The fusion technique in medical images is useful for resourceful disease diagnosis purpose and for doctors having varying experiences. This paper illustrates multimodality medical image fusion techniques and their results evaluated and analyzed with six quantitative metrics specified in last section of the paper. In this paper, a multimodality image fusion algorithm based on Dual tree discrete wavelet transform and particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed. Firstly, the source images are divided into low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients by the dual-tree discrete wavelet transform (DDWT) as separate parallel branch of band. PSO is used to determine to obtain proper fusion weight parameter from high-frequency coefficients from segmented images by DDWT. Also PSO is used to determine ? parameter called scalar weight. Finally, the fused image is reconstructed by the inverse DDWT. Thus quality of fused image is measured with PSNR, SNR, OCE, MI, Entropy DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.160410

Performance analysis of multimodal biometric fusion

Biometrics is constantly evolving technology which has been widely used in many official and commercial identification applications. In fact in recent years biometric-based authentication techniques received more attention due to increased concerns in security. Most biometric systems that are currently in use typically employ a single biometric trait. Such systems are called unibiometric systems. Despite considerable advances in recent years, there are still challenges in authentication based on a single biometric trait, such as noisy data, restricted degree of freedom, intra-class variability, non-universality, spoof attack and unacceptable error rates. Some of the challenges can be handled by designing a multimodal biometric system. Multimodal biometric systems are those which utilize or are capable of utilizing, more than one physiological or behavioural characteristic for enrolment, verification, or identification. In this thesis, we propose a novel fusion approach at a hybrid level between iris and online signature traits. Online signature and iris authentication techniques have been employed in a range of biometric applications. Besides improving the accuracy, the fusion of both of the biometrics has several advantages such as increasing population coverage, deterring spoofing activities and reducing enrolment failure. In this doctoral dissertation, we make a first attempt to combine online signature and iris biometrics. We principally explore the fusion of iris and online signature biometrics and their potential application as biometric identifiers. To address this issue, investigations is carried out into the relative performance of several statistical data fusion techniques for integrating the information in both unimodal and multimodal biometrics. We compare the results of the multimodal approach with the results of the individual online signature and iris authentication approaches. This dissertation describes research into the feature and decision fusion levels in multimodal biometrics.State of Kuwait – The Public Authority of Applied Education and Trainin

Lifting dual tree complex wavelets transform

We describe the lifting dual tree complex wavelet transform (LDTCWT), a type of lifting wavelets remodeling that produce complex coefficients by employing a dual tree of lifting wavelets filters to get its real part and imaginary part. Permits the remodel to produce approximate shift invariance, directionally selective filters and reduces the computation time (properties lacking within the classical wavelets transform). We describe a way to estimate the accuracy of this approximation and style appropriate filters to attain this. These benefits are often exploited among applications like denoising, segmentation, image fusion and compression. The results of applications shrinkage denoising demonstrate objective and subjective enhancements over the dual tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT). The results of the shrinkage denoising example application indicate empirical and subjective enhancements over the DTCWT. The new transform with the DTCWT provide a trade-off between denoising computational competence of performance, and memory necessities. We tend to use the PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) alongside the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) and the SSIM map to estimate denoised image quality

Fingerprint recognition based on shark smell optimization and genetic algorithm

Fingerprint recognition is a dominant form of biometric due to its distinctiveness. The study aims to extract and select the best features of fingerprint images, and evaluate the strength of the Shark Smell Optimization (SSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) in the search space with a chosen set of metrics. The proposed model consists of seven phases namely, enrollment, image preprocessing by using weighted median filter, feature extraction by using SSO, weight generation by using Chebyshev polynomial first kind (CPFK), feature selection by using GA, creation of a user’s database, and matching features by using Euclidean distance (ED). The effectiveness of the proposed model’s algorithms and performance is evaluated on 150 real fingerprint images that were collected from university students by the ZKTeco scanner at Sulaimani city, Iraq. The system’s performance was measured by three renowned error rate metrics, namely, False Acceptance Rate (FAR), False Rejection Rate (FRR), and Correct Verification Rate (CVR). The experimental outcome showed that the proposed fingerprint recognition model was exceedingly accurate recognition because of a low rate of both FAR and FRR, with a high CVR percentage gained which was 0.00, 0.00666, and 99.334%, respectively. This finding would be useful for improving biometric secure authentication based fingerprint. It is also possibly applied to other research topics such as fraud detection, e-payment, and other real-life applications authentication

Comparison of DCT, SVD and BFOA based multimodal biometric watermarking systems

AbstractDigital image watermarking is a major domain for hiding the biometric information, in which the watermark data are made to be concealed inside a host image imposing imperceptible change in the picture. Due to the advance in digital image watermarking, the majority of research aims to make a reliable improvement in robustness to prevent the attack. The reversible invisible watermarking scheme is used for fingerprint and iris multimodal biometric system. A novel approach is used for fusing different biometric modalities. Individual unique modalities of fingerprint and iris biometric are extracted and fused using different fusion techniques. The performance of different fusion techniques is evaluated and the Discrete Wavelet Transform fusion method is identified as the best. Then the best fused biometric template is watermarked into a cover image. The various watermarking techniques such as the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) are implemented to the fused biometric feature image. Performance of watermarking systems is compared using different metrics. It is found that the watermarked images are found robust over different attacks and they are able to reverse the biometric template for Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA) watermarking technique

Intelligent System For Brain Disease Diagnosis Using Rotation Invariant Features And Fuzzy Neural Network

The characteristic features of the magnetic resonant image (MRI) for Alzheimer’s patient’s brain image and normal image can be distinguished in terms of dimensional features with the help of wavelet decomposition. From the literature review, it is observed that when datasets used are a combination of the MR images having a very mild cognitive impairment and mild cognitive impairment, the performance of the classifier reduces. Because the features of this kind of MR image are difficult to distinguish from normal brain images. To solve this problem, the lossless feature extraction method along with the feature reduction method having a selection approach is suggested as a solution here. In this paper, the 12 directional, rotation invariant two-dimensional discrete-time continuous wavelet transform (R-DTCWT) and a genetic algorithm (GA) are used for feature selection and feature vector size reduction. The fuzzy neural network (FNN) which is suitable for pattern recognition is used here. The FNN with and without feature reduction is evaluated for identification of combinational dataset, shows satisfactory performance over an artificial neural network (ANN), probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifiers. This method is compared with other state of algorithm to prove the enhanced performanc

Fusion of face and iris biometrics in security verification systems.

Master of Science in Computer Science. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2016.Abstract available in PDF file

Registration and Fusion of the Autofluorescent and Infrared Retinal Images

This article deals with registration and fusion of multimodal opththalmologic images obtained by means of a laser scanning device (Heidelberg retina angiograph). The registration framework has been designed and tested for combination of autofluorescent and infrared images. This process is a necessary step for consecutive pixel level fusion and analysis utilizing information from both modalities. Two fusion methods are presented and compared