The document discusses the contourlet transform approach for image enhancement. It begins with the goal of capturing intrinsic geometrical structures in images. It then describes the contourlet transform's multi-resolution, multi-directional decomposition approach using a non-separable filter bank similar to wavelets. This results in a flexible multi-resolution expansion into contour segments. The approach uses a Laplacian pyramid followed by directional filter banks to decompose an image into multiple directional subbands across different scales. Directional subbands are then enhanced using weighting factors to emphasize features of interest for the final enhanced image.