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...

Corresponding Author: Thayammal, S. Department of ECE Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai-601 301, Tamil Nadu, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: The motivation of the proposed compression method is to reduce the bit rate for image transmission or memory requirement for image storage while maintaining image quality. The edges are one of the prominent features in an image a...

This is an extended account of a short presentation with this title given at the Minneapolis IMA Workshop on ‘n-categories: foundations and applications’, June 7-18, 2004, organised by John Baez and Peter May.

The theory we describe in this book was developed over a long period, starting about 1965, and always with the aim of developing groupoid methods in homotopy theory of dimension greater than 1. Algebraic work made substantial progress in the early 1970s, in work with Chris Spencer, and in 1974 by Brown and Higgins. A substantial step forward in 1974 led us over the years into many fruitful area...

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...

Just as knots and links can be algebraically described as certain morphisms in the category of tangles in 3 dimensions, compact surfaces smoothly embedded in R4 can be described as certain 2-morphisms in the 2-category of ‘2-tangles in 4 dimensions’. Using the work of Carter, Rieger and Saito, we prove that this 2-category is the ‘free semistrict braided monoidal 2-category with duals on one un...

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...

Edges and surface boundaries are often the most relevant features in images and multidimensional data. It is well known that multiscale methods including wavelets and their more sophisticated multidimensional siblings offer a powerful tool for the analysis and detection of such sets. Among such methods, the continuous shearlet transform has been especially successful. This method combines aniso...