Speckle noise usually occurs in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images due to coherent radiation. Speckle reduction is a mandatory step prior to the processing of SAR images. Here a novel de-speckling scheme is presented which is in line with the wavelet transform based schemes with several modifications due to the implementation of directionlet transform. As in any transform based de-speckling ...

Radar and Landsat data were used to classify land cover in north central Ethiopia. Both images were registered and resampled to 12.5 m spatial resolution. Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) and C4.5 algorithm were applied. The original radar data produced low overall classification accuracy (66%). To improve this classification accuracy, de-speckling and texture measures were used for image en...

The dominant phenotype of greying with age in horses, caused by a 4.6-kb duplication in intron 6 of STX17, is associated with a high incidence of melanoma and vitiligo-like skin depigmentation. However, the progressive greying and the incidence of melanoma, vitiligo-like depigmentation, and amount of speckling in these horses do not follow a simple inheritance pattern. To understand their inher...

The application of the speckle phenomenon to the analysis of in-plane translations and oscillations is first reviewed briefly. Then a practical method of investigating out-of-plane rotations (tilts) even in the presence of in-plane movements is studied. This goal can be achieved by recording the speckle patterns in the Fourier transform plane before and after the tilt or as a time-average expos...

Speckling is an interference effect invariably present when highly coherent light is scattered by the different elements of an optically rough surface (roughness ~ " J '" = wavelength). Speckle patterns appear everywhere in space, but interest centres on the image a nd Fourier transform planes. The lateral dime n sion of i ndiv idual speckles is determin ed by the interference of waves from the...

ultrasound images suffer of multiplicative noise named speckle. different de-speckling algorithms run either in spatial domain or in transformed domain. in this paper, an adaptive filter in spatial domain according to assume the nakagami distribution as the statistic of log-compressed ultrasound images is used. for de-speckling in transformed domain, the non-sub sampled shearlet transform is us...

BACKGROUND Understanding how androgen receptor (AR) function is modulated by exposure to steroids, growth factors or small molecules can have important mechanistic implications for AR-related disease therapies (e.g., prostate cancer, androgen insensitivity syndrome, AIS), and in the analysis of environmental endocrine disruptors. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We report the development of a h...