This paper introduces a numerical implementation of the 3D shearlet transform, a directional transform which is derived from the theory of shearlets. The shearlet approach belongs to a class of directional multiscale methods emerged during the last 10 years to overcome the limitations of traditional multiscale systems, which also include curvelets and contourlets. Unlike other methods, shearlet...

The two-dimensional wavelet transform for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not represent sparsely curve singularity characteristics, it can only capture the limited direction information. In order to solve this problem, a new method for compressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI) is presented based on discrete shearlet transform in this paper. Frequency coefficients can be got at all scales and in all...

Finding optimal representations of signals in higher dimensions, in particular directional representations, is currently the subject of intensive research. Since it might be difficult to obtain directional information by means of wavelets, several new representation systems were proposed in the past, including ridgelets, curvelets and, more recently, shearlets. In this paper we study and visual...

Medical image fusion is a technique that integrates complementary information from multimodality images. The fused image is more suitable for treatment plan strategies. In this paper, an efficient medical image fusion method has been proposed based on shearlet transform and human visibility feature as fusion rule. Image fusion rule is the solution that influences the quality of image fusion. Th...

We show that compactly supported functions with sufficient smoothness and enough vanishing moments can serve as analyzing vectors for shearlet coorbit spaces. We use this approach to prove embedding theorems for subspaces of shearlet coorbit spaces resembling shearlets on the cone into Besov spaces. Furthermore, we show embedding relations of traces of these subspaces with respect to the real a...

In this paper, we study the relationships of the newly developed continuous shearlet transform with the coorbit space theory. It turns out that all the conditions that are needed to apply the coorbit space theory can indeed be satisfied for the shearlet group. Consequently, we establish new families of smoothness spaces, the shearlet coorbit spaces. Moreover, our approach yields Banach frames f...

This paper shows that the continuous shearlet transform, a novel directional multiscale transform recently introduced by the authors and their collaborators, provides a precise geometrical characterization for the boundary curves of very general planar regions. This study is motivated by imaging applications, where such boundary curves represent edges of images. The shearlet approach is able to...

With the growth of digital networks such as the Internet, digital media have been explosively developed in e-commerce and online services. This causes problems such as illegal copy and fake ownership. Watermarking is proposed as one of the solutions to such cases. Among different watermarking techniques, the wavelet transform has been used more because of its good ability in modeling the human ...

Segmentation plays an important role in many preprocessing stages in image processing. Recently, convex relaxation methods for image multi-labeling were proposed in the literature. Often these models involve the total variation (TV) semi-norm as regularizing term. However, it is well-known that the TV functional is not optimal for the segmentation of textured regions. In recent years directiona...

In this paper we are concerned with the continuous shearlet transform in arbitrary space dimensions where the shear operation is of Toeplitz type. In particular, we focus on the construction of associated shearlet coorbit spaces and on atomic decompositions and Banach frames for these spaces.