K.Mala

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, India.

E-mail: kmala@mepcoeng.ac.in

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Research Interests: Data Mining, Medical Image Computing, Image Processing, Image Manipulation, Image Compression

Biography

K.Mala received the B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering with Honours from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India in 1989 and M.S in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, India. She received Ph.D degree from M.S University, Tirunelveli, India. She is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, India. Her fields of interest include Biomedical Image Processing, Data Mining and Intelligent Computing. Dr.K.Mala was honored by the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor Award in 2008.

Author Articles
Noise Removal From Microarray Images Using Maximum a Posteriori Based Bivariate Estimator

By A.Sharmila Agnal K.Mala

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2013.01.05, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2013

Microarray Image contains information about thousands of genes in an organism and these images are affected by several types of noises. They affect the circular edges of spots and thus degrade the image quality. Hence noise removal is the first step of cDNA microarray image analysis for obtaining gene ex-pression level and identifying the infected cells. The Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) is preferred for denoising microarray images due to its properties like improved directional selectivity and near shift-invariance. In this paper, bivariate estimators namely Linear Minimum Mean Squared Error (LMMSE) and Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) derived by applying DT-CWT are used for denoising microarray images. Experimental results show that MAP based denoising method outperforms existing denoising techniques for microarray images.

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