Seismic data recovery from data with missing traces on otherwise regular acquisition grids forms a crucial step in the seismic processing flow. For instance, unsuccessful recovery leads to imaging artifacts and to erroneous predictions for the multiples, adversely affecting the performance of multiple elimination. A non-parametric transform-based recovery method is presented that exploits the c...

In this paper we present an alternative method for SAR image denoising, structure enhancement, and change detection based on the curvelet transform. Curvelets can be denoted as a two dimensional further development of the well-known wavelets. The original image is decomposed into linear ridge-like structures, that appear in different scales (longer or shorter structures), directions (orientatio...

Denoising of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images is a challenging task due to the inherent low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the acquired data. A pre-processing denoising step may facilitate and improve the results of further steps such as segmentation, quantification or textural features characterization. Different recent denoising techniques have been introduced and most state-of-the-a...

This paper introduces curvelet transform and gradient vector flow (GVF) snake to improvement accuracy in edge detection of waterway from remote sensing images. Multi-scale geometric analysis (MGA) is booming hot research topic in recent years, which aims to obtain flexible, fast and effective signal processing algorithms through efficient approximation and characterization for the inherent geom...

We develop a unifying perspective on several decompositions exhibiting directional parabolic scaling. In each decomposition, the individual atoms are highly anisotropic at fine scales, with effective support obeying the parabolic scaling principle length ≈ width. Our comparisons allow to extend Theorems known for one decomposition to others. We start from a Continuous Curvelet Transform f → Γf ...

SURE-LET Approach is used for reducing or removing noise in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). Removing or reducing noise is an active research area in image processing. Rician noise is the dominant noise in MRIs. Due to this type of noise, the abnormal tissue (cancerous tissue) may be misclassified as normal tissue and introduces bias into MRI measurements that can have significant impact ...

We propose an efficient iterative curvelet-regularized deconvolution algorithm that exploits continuity along reflectors in seismic images. Curvelets are a new multiscale transform that provides sparse representations for images (such as seismic images) that comprise smooth objects separated by piece-wise smooth discontinuities. Our technique combines conjugate gradient-based convolution operat...

The prevalent cause of death in human being is brain tumor. A brain tumor is a mass or growth of anomalous cells in brain. The detection of brain tumor is difficult task. Image processing provides relevant techniques for efficient detection. In the proposed technique, first the features of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) images are extracted with curvelet transform, and then these features are...