Eye blink detection has gained a lot of interest in recent years in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research is being conducted all over the world for developing new Natural User Interfaces (NUI) that uses eye blinks as an input. This paper presents a comparison of five non-intrusive methods for eye blink detection for low resolution eye images using different features like mean intensity, Fisher faces and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and classifiers like Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial neural network (ANN). A comparative study is performed by varying the number of training images and in uncontrolled lighting conditions with low resolution eye images. The results show that HOG features combined with SVM classifier outperforms all other methods with an accuracy of 85.62% when tested on images taken from a totally unknown dataset. 

Modern life style of women has made them more vulnerable to breast cancer and it is considered as the largest cause of mortality among women. This paper presents a novel method to classify mammograms into normal ones, with benign and malignant microcalcifications, and with malignant and benign tumors using fractal features derived from fractal dimension. Here, three fractal dimension estimation methods such as Differential Box Counting (DBC), Triangular Prism Surface Area (TPSA) and Blanket methods are used for computing the six fractal features utilized for the classification. The new fractal feature f6 obtained using TPSA method is found to be the best with 100% classification accuracy. The average value of f6 is found to be 0.1110, 0.2875, 0.4743, 0.5271 and 0.8558, for normal, benign masses, benign and malignant microcalcifications and malignant masses respectively. The classification performance of the different features was analyzed using the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC).