color halftoning, dithering, barycentric coordinates. Monochrome dither halftoning is a gray-scale image rendering procedure where gray-levels in an image are compared against a periodic threshold array, placing a Black dot in every location whose gray-level is smaller than the corresponding threshold value. Current generalizations to color printing result in Cartesian thresholding procedures, ...

The local binary pattern (LBP) provides a simple and efficient approach to gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification. However, the LBP operator thresholds P neighbors at the value of the center pixel in a local neighborhood and employs a P-bit binary pattern to encode only the signs of the differences between the gray values. Thus, the LBP operator discards some important texture...

In this work, gray-scale invariant ranklet texture features are proposed for false positive reduction (FPR) in computer-aided detection (CAD) of breast masses. Two main considerations are at the basis of this proposal. First, false positive (FP) marks surviving our previous CAD system seem to be characterized by specific texture properties that can be used to discriminate them from masses. Seco...

Leaf features play an important role in plant species identification and plant taxonomy. The type of the leaf vein is an important morphological feature of the leaf in botany. Leaf vein should be extracted from the leaf in the image before discriminating its type. In this paper a new method of leaf vein extraction has been proposed based on gray-scale morphology. Firstly, the color image of the...

Removal of random value impulse noise is essential to help successive process like image segmentation, analysis, pattern recognition etc. To remove uniform/randomvalued impulse noise without compromising the image detail information such as sharp edges, Modified Directional Weighted Median Filter (MDWMF) is proposed. The proposed filter utilizes the second order difference (SOD) along with a th...

An idealized model on re-constructing digital image between coarse and fine pixel image is proposed. The maximum local cross-correction coefficient method is employed to identify the associated point of an digital image with respect to another digital image. The distance between two corresponding points is considered as the displacement between points. After comparing this distance to the exact...

This paper presents a new technique to extract the light invariant local feature for facial expression recognition. It is not only robust to monotonic gray-scale changes caused by light variations but also very simple to perform which makes it possible for analyzing images in challenging real-time settings. The local feature for a pixel is computed by finding the direction of the neighboring of...

Stethoscope evaluation of the lungs is widely accepted and practiced; however, there are some widely recognized, major limitations with its use. A safe device that helped solve these limitations by translating sound into objective, quantifiable images would have clinical utility. Translating lung sounds into quantifiable images in which regional differences or asymmetry in intensities of breath...

Objective: To assess the role of color Doppler as a complementary technique to grayscale in the early detection of placenta accreta. Material and Methods: One hundred and ten pregnant women with confirmed placenta previa complete centralize (after 28 weeks' gestation) were included prospectively into this study. Gray-scale trans abdominal ultrasound examination was performed to detect loss of t...

This paper proposes a novel approach of skeletonization for both binary and gray-scale images based on the Skeleton Strength Map (SSM) calculated from Euclidean distance transform. The distance transform is firstly computed based on the boundary edges, and then its gradient vector field is calculated. After that, the isotropic diffusion is performed on the gradient vector field and the SSM is c...