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

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. © 2010 World Scientific Publishing Company.