# The Radon cumulative distribution transform and its application to image classification

Source: [The Radon cumulative distribution transform and its application to image classification](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa62411e209131ce9f83a6>)

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Authors: Soheil Kolouri, Se Rim Park, Gustavo K. Rohde

Published: 2015-11-10T18:05:45.000Z

## Abstract

Invertible image representation methods (transforms) are routinely employed as low-level image processing operations based on which feature extraction and recognition algorithms are developed. Most transforms in current use (e.g. Fourier, Wavelet, etc.) are linear transforms, and, by themselves, are unable to substantially simplify the representation of image classes for classification. Here we describe a nonlinear, invertible, low-level image processing transform based on combining the well known Radon transform for image data, and the 1D Cumulative Distribution Transform proposed earlier. We describe a few of the properties of this new transform, and with both theoretical and experimental results show that it can often render certain problems linearly separable in transform space.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03206>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.03206.pdf>)