wavethresh (version 4.6.1)

threshold.imwd: Threshold two-dimensional wavelet decomposition object

Description

This function provides various ways to threshold a imwd class object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'imwd':
threshold(imwd, levels = 3:(nlevelsWT(imwd) - 1), type = "hard", policy = 
        "universal", by.level = FALSE, value = 0, dev = var, verbose = FALSE, 
        return.threshold = FALSE, compression = TRUE, Q = 0.05, ...)

Arguments

imwd

The two-dimensional wavelet decomposition object that you wish to threshold.

levels

a vector of integers which determines which scale levels are thresholded in the decomposition. Each integer in the vector must refer to a valid level in the imwd object supplied. This is usually any integer fr

type

determines the type of thresholding this can be "hard" or "soft".

policy

selects the technique by which the threshold value is selected. Each policy corresponds to a method in the literature. At present the different policies are: "universal", "manual", "fdr", "probability".

by.level

If FALSE then a global threshold is computed on and applied to all scale levels defined in levels. If TRUE a threshold is computed and applied separately to each scale level.

value

This argument conveys the user supplied threshold. If the policy="manual" then value is the actual threshold value; if policy="probability" then value conveys the the user supplied quantile level.

dev

this argument supplies the function to be used to compute the spread of the absolute values coefficients. The function supplied must return a value of spread on the variance scale (i.e. not standard deviation) such as the var() function. A po

verbose

if TRUE then the function prints out informative messages as it progresses.

return.threshold

If this option is TRUE then the actual value of the threshold is returned. If this option is FALSE then a thresholded version of the input is returned.

compression

If this option is TRUE then this function returns a comressed two-dimensional wavelet transform object of class imwdc. This can be useful as the resulting object will be smaller than if it was not compressed. The compression makes use of the

Q

Parameter for the false discovery rate "fdr" policy.

...

any other arguments

Value

• An object of class imwdc if the compression option above is TRUE, otherwise a imwd object is returned. In either case the returned object contains the thresholded coefficients. Note that if the return.threshold option is set to TRUE then the threshold values will be returned rather than the thresholded object.

RELEASE

Version 3.6 Copyright Guy Nason and others 1997

Details

This function thresholds or shrinks wavelet coefficients stored in a imwd object and by default returns the coefficients in a modified imwdc object. See the seminal papers by Donoho and Johnstone for explanations about thresholding. For a gentle introduction to wavelet thresholding (or shrinkage as it is sometimes called) see Nason and Silverman, 1994. For more details on each technique see the descriptions of each method below The basic idea of thresholding is very simple. In a signal plus noise model the wavelet transform of an image is very sparse, the wavelet transform of noise is not (in particular, if the noise is iid Gaussian then so if the noise contained in the wavelet coefficients). Thus, since the image gets concentrated in few wavelet coefficients and the noise remains "spread" out it is "easy" to separate the signal from noise by keeping large coefficients (which correspond to true image) and delete the small ones (which correspond to noise). However, one has to have some idea of the noise level (computed using the dev option in threshold functions). If the noise level is very large then it is possible, as usual, that no image coefficients "stick up" above the noise.

There are many components to a successful thresholding procedure. Some components have a larger effect than others but the effect is not the same in all practical data situations. Here we give some rough practical guidance, although you must refer to the papers below when using a particular technique. You cannot expect to get excellent performance on all signals unless you fully understand the rationale and limitations of each method below. I am not in favour of the "black-box" approach. The thresholding functions of WaveThresh3 are not a black box: experience and judgement are required!

Some issues to watch for: [object Object],Note that the fdr policy does its own thing.,[object Object]

References

The FDR code segments were kindly donated by Felix Abramovich.

See Also

imwd, imwd.object, imwdc.object. threshold.

Examples

#
# Let's use the lennon test image
#
data(lennon)
image(lennon)
#
# Now let's do the 2D discrete wavelet transform
#
lwd <- imwd(lennon)
#
# Let's look at the coefficients
#
plot(lwd)
#
# Now let's threshold the coefficients
#
lwdT <- threshold(lwd)
#
# And let's plot those the thresholded coefficients
#
plot(lwdT)
#
# Note that the only remaining coefficients are down in the bottom
# left hand corner of the plot. All the others (black) have been set
# to zero (i.e. thresholded).