Parameter optimization for local polynomial approximation based intersection confidence interval filter using genetic algorithm: an application for brain MRI image de-noising

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively exploited for more accuratepathological changes as well as diagnosis. Conversely, MRI suffers from variousshortcomings such as ambient noise from the environment, acquisition noise from theequipment, the presence of background tissue, breathing motion, body fat, etc.Consequently, noise reduction is critical as diverse types of the generated noise limit the efficiency of the medical image diagnosis. Local polynomial approximation basedintersection confidence interval (LPA-ICI) filter is one of the effective de-noising filters.This filter requires an adjustment of the ICI parameters for efficient window size selection.From the wide range of ICI parametric values, finding out the best set of tunes values is itselfan optimization problem. The present study proposed a novel technique for parameteroptimization of LPA-ICI filter using genetic algorithm (GA) for brain MR imagesde-noising. The experimental results proved that the proposed method outperforms theLPA-ICI method for de-noising in terms of various performance metrics for different noisevariance levels. Obtained results reports that the ICI parameter values depend on the noisevariance and the concerned under test image

Colour image denoising by eigenvector analysis of neighbourhood colour samples

[EN] Colour image smoothing is a challenging task because it is necessary to appropriately distinguish between noise and original structures, and to smooth noise conveniently. In addition, this processing must take into account the correlation among the image colour channels. In this paper, we introduce a novel colour image denoising method where each image pixel is processed according to an eigenvector analysis of a data matrix built from the pixel neighbourhood colour values. The aim of this eigenvector analysis is threefold: (i) to manage the local correlation among the colour image channels, (ii) to distinguish between flat and edge/textured regions and (iii) to determine the amount of needed smoothing. Comparisons with classical and recent methods show that the proposed approach is competitive and able to provide significative improvements.Latorre-Carmona, P.; Miñana, J.; Morillas, S. (2020). Colour image denoising by eigenvector analysis of neighbourhood colour samples. 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Higher-order image statistics for unsupervised, information-theoretic, adaptive, image filtering

technical reportThe restoration of images is an important and widely studied problem in computer vision and image processing. Various image filtering strategies have been effective, but invariably make strong assumptions about the properties of the signal and/or degradation. Therefore, these methods typically lack the generality to be easily applied to new applications or diverse image collections. This paper describes a novel unsupervised, informationtheoretic, adaptive filter (UINTA) that improves the predictability of pixel intensities from their neighborhoods by decreasing the joint entropy between them. Thus UINTA automatically discovers the statistical properties of the signal and can thereby restore a wide spectrum of images and applications. This paper describes the formulation required to minimize the joint entropy measure, presents several important practical considerations in estimating image-region statistics, and then presents results on both real and synthetic data

Wavelet-Based Multicomponent Denoising Profile for the Classification of Hyperspectral Images

The high resolution of the hyperspectral remote sensing images available allows the detailed analysis of even small spatial structures. As a consequence, the study of techniques to efficiently extract spatial information is a very active realm. In this paper, we propose a novel denoising wavelet-based profile for the extraction of spatial information that does not require parameters fixed by the user. Over each band obtained by a wavelet-based feature extraction technique, a denoising profile (DP) is built through the recursive application of discrete wavelet transforms followed by a thresholding process. Each component of the DP consists of features reconstructed by recursively applying inverse wavelet transforms to the thresholded coefficients. Several thresholding methods are explored. In order to show the effectiveness of the extended DP (EDP), we propose a classification scheme based on the computation of the EDP and supervised classification by extreme learning machine. The obtained results are compared to other state-of-the-art methods based on profiles in the literature. An additional study of behavior in the presence of added noise is also performed showing the high reliability of the EDP proposedThis work was supported in part by the Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional under Grants GRC2014/008 and ED431C 2018/2019 and the Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, Gobierno de España under Grant TIN2016-76373-P. Both are cofunded by the European Regional Development FundS