Feature extraction of brain MRI by stationary wavelet transform and its applications

Yudong Zhang*, Shuihua Wang, Yuankai Huo, Lenan Wu, Aijun Liu

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Abstract

Wavelet transform is widely used in feature extraction of magnetic resonance imaging. However, the traditional discrete wavelet transform (DWT) suffers from translation variant property, which may extract significantly different features from two images of the same subject with only slight movement. In order to solve this problem, this paper utilizes stationary wavelet transform (SWT) to extract features instead of DWT. Experiments on a normal brain MRI demonstrate that wavelet coefficients via SWT are superior to those via DWT, in terms of translation invariant property. In addition, we applied SWT to normal and abnormal brain classification. The results demonstrate that SWT-based classifier is more accurate than that of DWT.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-132
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Biological Systems
Volume18
Issue numberSPEC. ISSUE 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Magnetic resonance imaging
  • discrete wavelet transform
  • feature extraction
  • fisher discriminant analysis
  • principle component analysis
  • stationary wavelet transform
  • translation invariance

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