Directional multiscale modeling of images using the contourlet transform

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1610-1620

  Po, Duncan D Y ^a,b   Do, Minh N ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Contourlets; Image modeling; Multidirection; Multiscale; Multiscale geometric analysis; Statistical models; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; IMAGE MODELING; MULTISCALE GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33646883645     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.873450     Document Type: Article

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