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  1 - A blind and robust video watermarking method based on hybrid 3-D transform
  SHAHROKH FALLAH TORBEHBAR ّFarzad Zargari
  Introduction: Digital images and videos can be copied, reproduced, and distributed with the same quality as the original ones, and this violates the copyright of original producers and the distributors. As a result, embedding information about the original producer and More

  Introduction: Digital images and videos can be copied, reproduced, and distributed with the same quality as the original ones, and this violates the copyright of original producers and the distributors. As a result, embedding information about the original producer and distributor in digital images and video attracted great attention for digital right management. Watermarking provides the facility to embed the required information in images and videos. Robust watermarking is used for embedding authentication information and hence should be robust against various attacks. On the other hand, in fragile watermarking the embedded data should be destroyed by any alteration in the watermarked image or video. Reversible digital watermarking techniques are proposed for lossless restoration of the original image from the watermarked image. Watermarking is non-blind when a copy of the signature or other related information is required for extracting the signature from the watermarked image or video and is blind when the signature can be extracted from watermarked data without any other subsidiary information. Watermarking the signature in a group of successive frames of a video file by the use of 3-D transforms attracted attention because it makes the watermarked video more robust against attacks such as frame averaging and alteration, and watermarking by 3-D transform is employed as a solution to the problems caused by independent watermarking of signature in one or several frames.Methods: Contourlet transform offers a high degree of directionality and anisotropy besides the multi-scale and time-frequency localization properties in wavelet transform. As a result, Contourlet transforms the representation of curved edges in the images with smoother contour and fewer coefficients compared to the wavelet transform. In this paper, a blind robust watermarking method based on a hybrid 3-D transform is proposed. The hybrid 3-D transform is derived by employing the 2-D Contourlet transform along with the 1-D wavelet transform. The signature will be watermarked in the low-frequency sub-band derived from the third level transform. To watermark the signature, we save a modified copy of the high energy coefficients of the even part in the odd part. For signature extraction, the watermarked region is partitioned into odd and even columns. The 3-level 3-D is applied to odd and even parts to transform coefficients. The high-energy sub-bands in odd and even parts are separated to extract the signature.Results: Experimental results indicate low degradation of the quality of the watermarked video, along with high robustness of the watermarked video against common attacks in comparison with other tested blind video watermarking methods.Discussion: A comparison of the proposed method with other methods indicates the superior performance of the proposed method in most of the attacks. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Improve the Quality of Mammogram Images by Image Processing Techniques
  Mahdi Hariri Hassan Najafy
  Abstract: Due to the spread of breast cancer, its early detection from mammogram images using computerized methods have been considered an effective method to reduce the death rate of patients.In this research, a method based on image processing techniques is presented More

  Abstract: Due to the spread of breast cancer, its early detection from mammogram images using computerized methods have been considered an effective method to reduce the death rate of patients.In this research, a method based on image processing techniques is presented to improve the quality of mammography images. Therefore, in this research, we try to improve the quality of mammography images with image processing techniques to create a medical system. The research has two stages of pre-processing, including equalizing the dimensions and adjusting the histogram of the images, and a stage of feature extraction using Contourlet and Curlet transforms from mammography images, which provides three categories of morphological and histological, statistical, and frequency features to improve diagnosis. And it increases the accuracy of diagnosis. The proposed improvement method was implemented on the MIAS dataset and a subset of the extracted features was selected for the input of the classifier. Comparing the performance of the proposed method on different classifications, this method shows an accuracy rate of 86.3, which is a better result than other methods.MethodThis research is looking for a method that can improve the accuracy of the final diagnosis. Therefore, after the pre-processing stage, which includes rescaling and adjusting the texture of the image, highlighter transforms in the frequency domain such as Curvelet and Contourlet are used to highlight and increase the differentiation of areas with masses in the image for decision-making.Local features based on image zoning are used for image segmentation, and these methods are also used to increase the contrast of mammogram images concerning their surroundings. The improvement methods used in this research use features based on the wavelet domain.ResultsThe input image to the system is subjected to the feature extraction process and three main categories of frequency, morphology, and histology features are extracted from it. This process is done through the cycle, size equalization, histogram adjustment, contourlet transform, and curvelet transform. Due to the sensitivity of the systems, it has been tried to extract the features with various levels and known matrices such as the matrix of events and gray groups.The classification results evaluated the said method. The best results on the data set were the proposed method, which reached an accuracy rate of 86.3 and showed a good improvement on the displayed data set. Manuscript profile
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  3 - MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION: A REVIEW
  Nasser Lotfivand neda rezaei
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  4 - A New Content Based Image Retrieval Method Using Contourlet Transform
  Farzad Zargari Ali Mosleh
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  5 - A New Compression Method based on Jpeg2000 and Contourlet Transform
  Farima Jafari Reza Javidan
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