<span>In biometric systems, compression takes important place especially in order to reduce the size of the information stored or transmitted through the distributed biometric systems. It is also noted that the compression techniques induce loss of information in the compressed images that can affect the effectiveness of biometric systems. The main objective of our contribution is to examine the efficacy of the used method to offer an optimal compression quality in these kind of images without considerable distortion. In order to evaluate the efficacy of the compression process, we use two kinds of evaluation, full-reference image quality assessment and a new proposed textural quality analysis of the compressed images. In this paper, we use a second-generation wavelet transform to improve the compression study in biometric images. The basic idea of this algorithm is the quincunx wavelet transform coupled to a modified progressive encoder called SPIHT-Z encoding.</span>
In image processing, using compression is very important in various applications, especially those using data quantities in transmission and storing. This importance becomes most required with the evolution of image quantities and the big data systems explosion. The image compression allows reducing the required binary volume of image data by encoding the image for transmission goal or database saving. The principal problem with image compression when reducing its size is the degradation that enters the image. This degradation can affect the quality of use of the compressed image. To evaluate and qualify this quality, we investigate the use of textural combined image quality metrics (TCQ) based on the fusion of full reference structural, textural, and edge evaluation metrics. To optimize this metric, we use the Monte Carlo optimization method. This approach allows us to qualify our compressed images and propose the best metric that evaluates compressed images according to several textural quality aspects.
The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, initially appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since spread around the world. The purpose of this paper is to use deep convolutional neural networks (DCCN) to improve the detection of COVID-19 from X-ray images. In this study, we create a DCNN based on a residual network (Resnet-50) that can identify COVID-19 from two other classes (pneumonia and normal) in chest X-ray images. DCNN was evaluated using two classification methods: binary (BC-1: COVID-19 vs. normal, BC-2: COVID-19 vs. pneumonia) and multi-class (pneumonia vs. normal vs. COVID-19). In all experiments, four fold cross-validation was used to train and test the model. This architecture's average accuracy is 99.9% for BC-1, 99.8% for BC-2, and 97.3% for multi-class cases. The experimental findings demonstrated that the suggested system detects COVID-19 with an average precision and sensitivity of 95% and 95.1% for multi-class classification, respectively. According to our findings, the proposed DCNN may help health professionals in confirming their first evaluation of COVID-19 patients.
The importance of image compression is now essential during transmission or storage processes in various data applications, especially in medical and biometric systems. To perform the effectiveness of the compression process on images and evaluate degradation caused by this process, image quality assessment becomes an important tool in image services. We note that the objective criteria in image quality depend especially on the image type and image texture composition. The actual tendency is to find metrics making better qualification on errors in compressed images and correlate with the human visual system. This paper presents an investigation to examine and evaluate image compression degradation by the use of a new tendency concept of image quality assessment based on texture and edge analysis. To perform and practice this evaluation, we compress the medical and biometric images using second-generation wavelet compression algorithms and study the degradation of texture information in these images.
The purpose of this article is to find an efficient and optimal method of compression by reducing the file size while retaining the information for a good quality processing and to produce credible pathological reports, based on the extraction of the information characteristics contained in medical images. In this article, we proposed a novel medical image compression that combines geometric active contour model and quincunx wavelet transform. In this method it is necessary to localize the region of interest, where we tried to localize all the part that contain the pathological, using the level set for an optimal reduction, then we use the quincunx wavelet coupled with the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm. After testing several algorithms we noticed that the proposed method gives satisfactory results. The comparison of the experimental results is based on parameters of evaluation.
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