International Journal of Electronics Engineering Research.
ISSN 0975-6450 Volume 9, Number 1 (2017) pp. 87-98
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A New Methodology for Noise Removal and
Segmentation in Microarray Images
G. Sai Chaitanya Kumar
1
, Dr. Reddi Kiran Kumar
2
and Dr. G. Apparao Naidu
3
1
PhD Research Scholar, Dept of CSE, JNTU Hyderabad, India.
2
Assistant Professor, Dept of CS, Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India.
3
Professor, Dept of CSE, J.B. Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Hyderabad, India.
Abstract
Microarray technology allows the simultaneous monitoring of thousands of
genes in parallel. Based on the gene expression measurements, microarray
technology have proven powerful in gene expression profiling for discovering
new types of diseases and for predicting the type of a disease. Enhancement,
Gridding, Segmentation and Intensity extraction are important steps in
microarray image analysis. This paper presents a noise removal method in
microarray images based on Bi-dimensional Variational Mode Decomposition
(BVMD). VMD is a signal processing method which decomposes any input
signal into discrete number of sub-signals (called Variational Mode Functions)
with each mode chosen to be its band width in spectral domain. First the noisy
image is processed using BVMD to produce BVMFs. Then Discrete Wavelet
Transform (DWT) thresholding technique is applied to each BVMF for
denoising. The denoised microarray image is reconstructed by the summation
of BVMFs. The filtered image is segmented using fuzzy local information c-
means clustering algorithm. This method is named as BVMD and DWT
thresholding method. The proposed method is compared with DWT
thresholding and BEMD and DWT thresholding methods. The qualitative and
quantitative analysis shows that BVMD and DWT thresholding method
produces better noise removal than other two methods and produces better
segmentation quality.
Keywords: Empirical Mode decomposition, Variational Mode
Decomposition, Discrete Wavelet Transform, Image Enhancement,
Microarray Images.