Wound characterization is important task in chronic wounds treatment, because changes of the wound size and tissue types are indicators of the healing progress. Developed color imageprocessing software analyze digita...
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Wound characterization is important task in chronic wounds treatment, because changes of the wound size and tissue types are indicators of the healing progress. Developed color imageprocessing software analyze digital wound image and based on learned tissue samples performs tissue classification. Implemented statistical pattern recognition algorithm classifies individual pixels of the wound image based on color information. Classification parameters were learned from examples presented to the application during the learning process. Results of the analysis contain the wound image represented in pseudo colors as well as percentage of tissue types within the wound area. Accompanied database stores all relevant wound information. Stored information makes possible qualitative and quantitative tracking of wound healing process, which gives the clinician necessary information to evaluate and adjust used therapy.
The goal of image segmentation is to partition an image into regions that are internally homogeneous and heterogeneous with respect to other neighbouring regions. We build on the pyramid image segmentation work by mak...
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The goal of image segmentation is to partition an image into regions that are internally homogeneous and heterogeneous with respect to other neighbouring regions. We build on the pyramid image segmentation work by making a more efficient method by which children chose parents within the pyramid structure. Instead of considering only four immediate parents each child node considers the neighbours of its candidate parent, and the candidate parents of its neighbouring nodes in the same level. In this paper, we also introduce the concept of a co-parent node for possible region merging at the end of each iteration. The new parents of the former children are co-parent candidates as if they are similar. The co-parent is chosen to be the one with the largest receptive field among candidate co-parents. Each child then additionally considers one more candidate, the co-parent of the previous parent. Other steps in the algorithm, and its overall layout, were also improved. The new algorithm is tested on a set of images. Our algorithm is fast (produces segmentations within seconds), results in the correct segmentation of elongated and large regions, very simple compared to plethora of existing algorithms, and appears competitive in segmentation quality with the best publicly available implementations. The major improvement over is that it produces visually appealing results at earlier levels of pyramid segmentation, and not only at the top one.
image-based License Plate Recognition (LPR) algorithms are the core modules of many Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Different algorithms and approaches have been proposed so far. All of these methods have th...
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image-based License Plate Recognition (LPR) algorithms are the core modules of many Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Different algorithms and approaches have been proposed so far. All of these methods have the following three steps in common: License Plate Localization, Character Segmentation & Character Recognition. There are many real-world issues encountered during the design of each step, including different plate formats, time-variant illumination conditions and etc. To have a reliable operator-free system, all of these need to be overcome. One of such issues which is the main focus of this article and so far has not been addressed in any previous work is the presence of characters corrupted by misplaced rivets/screws. In this paper we present a simple, yet effective technique based on traditional pattern matching methods which when combined with modern character recognition techniques, can bring up the success rates of current systems closer to 100%.
The performance of iris recognition systems is significantly affected by the segmentation accuracy, especially in non-ideal iris images. This paper proposes an improved method to localise non-circular iris images quic...
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The performance of iris recognition systems is significantly affected by the segmentation accuracy, especially in non-ideal iris images. This paper proposes an improved method to localise non-circular iris images quickly and accurately. Shrinking and expanding active contour methods are consolidated when localising inner and outer iris boundaries. First, the pupil region is roughly estimated based on histogram thresholding and morphological operations. Thereafter, a shrinking active contour model is used to precisely locate the inner iris boundary. Finally, the estimated inner iris boundary is used as an initial contour for an expanding active contour scheme to find the outer iris boundary. The proposed scheme is robust in finding exact the iris boundaries of non-circular and off-angle irises. In addition, occlusions of the iris images from eyelids and eyelashes are automatically excluded from the detected iris region. Experimental results on CASIA v3.0 iris databases indicate the accuracy of proposed technique.
This paper describes a method using imageprocessing and genetic algorithm-neural network (GA-NN) for automated Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection in tissues. The proposed method can be used to assist pathologists i...
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This paper describes a method using imageprocessing and genetic algorithm-neural network (GA-NN) for automated Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection in tissues. The proposed method can be used to assist pathologists in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis from tissue sections and replace the conventional manual screening process, which is time-consuming and labour-intensive. The approach consists of image segmentation, feature extraction and identification. It uses Ziehl-Neelsen stained tissue slides images which are acquired using a digital camera attached to a light microscope for diagnosis. To separate the tubercle bacilli from its background, moving k-mean clustering that uses C-Y colour information is applied. Then, seven Hu's moment invariants are extracted as features to represent the bacilli. Finally, based on the input features, a GA-NN approach is used to classify into two classes: `true TB' and `possible TB'. In this study, genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to select significant input features for neural network (NN). Experimental results demonstrated that the GA-NN approach able to produce better performance with fewer input features compared to the standard NN approach.
Side-scan sonar is a proven tool for detection of underwater objects, particularly those objects that project above the seafloor. Rapid assessment of side-scan imagery for object detection is critical for port securit...
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Side-scan sonar is a proven tool for detection of underwater objects, particularly those objects that project above the seafloor. Rapid assessment of side-scan imagery for object detection is critical for port security needs. However, current side-scan data processing techniques are largely manual, highly time-consuming, and prone to operator error. Availability of well-trained analysts is also a challenge. This article describes a research and development effort at Science applications International Corporation to automate side-scan sonar contact detection for safety of navigation surveys. Included in the development effort are innovative imageprocessing and machine learning techniques designed to reduce the number of false alarms. These automated techniques are directly applicable to port security operations.
Biometric systems identify individuals by comparison of the individual biometric traits, such as the fingerprint patterns. In the literature, many relevant methods are based on the localization of a reference “pivot...
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Biometric systems identify individuals by comparison of the individual biometric traits, such as the fingerprint patterns. In the literature, many relevant methods are based on the localization of a reference “pivot” point of the fingerprint, called principal singular point (PSP). Most of the time, the PSP is selected from the list of the estimated singular points (SPs) that are identified by specific local patterns of the fingerprint ridges, called cores and deltas. The challenge is to provide an automatic method capable to select the same PSP from different images of the same fingertip. In this paper, we propose a technique that estimates the position of all the singular points by processing the global structure of the ridges and extracting a specific set of features. The selection of the reference point from the candidate list is then obtained by processing the extracted features with computational intelligence classification techniques. Experiments show that the method is accurate and it can be applied on contact and contact-less image types.
The Human Visual System (HVS) tends to focus on specific regions of viewed images or video frames, this is done effortlessly, instantly and unconsciously. These are called salient regions and form a saliency map, whic...
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The Human Visual System (HVS) tends to focus on specific regions of viewed images or video frames, this is done effortlessly, instantly and unconsciously. These are called salient regions and form a saliency map, which could be used to improve a number of image and video processing techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel non-reference objective video quality metric based on the saliency map to improve the estimation of the perceived video quality. This metric estimates the degree of blur and blockiness in each video frame from the impaired video only, and uses it with the saliency map to derive a weighting function. The latter is used to modulate the contribution of the pixel differences to the final quality score. The salient regions of the videos are automatically computed using our video saliency model. A psychophysical experiment is conducted to estimate the perceived quality of the impaired videos. The results of this subjective test are compared to the scores obtained with the proposed objective metric. The objective and subjective scores are found to be highly correlated, which shows that our metric correctly estimates the perceived quality of a video.
The 2-D Gabor transform has been recognized as being useful in diverse areas such as image compression, texture analysis, image segmentation, and image recognition; however, its real time applications have been limite...
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The 2-D Gabor transform has been recognized as being useful in diverse areas such as image compression, texture analysis, image segmentation, and image recognition; however, its real time applications have been limited due to the high computational complexity of the traditional 2-D complex-valued discrete Gabor transform (CDGT) algorithms. In this paper, 2-D discrete Hartley transform (DHT)-based real-valued discrete Gabor transform (RDGT) is presented, which can utilize the fast DHT algorithm for fast computation and has a simple relationship with the CDGT such that the 2-D CDGT coefficients can be directly computed from the 2-D DHT-based RDGT coefficients. Due to this simple relationship, the 2-D DHT-based RDGT also offers a faster and more efficient method to compute the 2-D CDGT. In addition, an efficient algorithm for the fast computation of the biorthogonal analysis window given a synthesis window is also presented. The results indicate that the proposed algorithms for the RDGT are attractive for real time imageprocessing.
Due to the advent of computer technology image-processing techniques have become increasingly important in a wide variety of applications. This is particularly true for medical imaging such as Computer Tomography (CT)...
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Due to the advent of computer technology image-processing techniques have become increasingly important in a wide variety of applications. This is particularly true for medical imaging such as Computer Tomography (CT), magnetic resonance image (MRI), and nuclear medicine, which can be used to assist doctors in diagnosis, treatment, and research. In this paper, hybrid algorithm for segmentation of color images is presented. The segments in images are found automatically based on adaptive multilevel threshold approach and FCM algorithm. neural network with multisigmoid function tries to label the objects with its original color even after segmentation. One of the advantages of this system is that it does not require a past knowledge about the number of objects in the image. This Fuzzy-Neuro system is tested on Berkley standard image database and also attempts have been made to compare the performance of the proposed algorithm with other currently available algorithms. From experimental results, the performance of the proposed technique is found out to yields better extraction of salient regions with high resolution as nearly same as the original image and better than the existing techniques. It can be used as a primary tool to segment unknown color images. Experimental results show that its performance is robust to different types of color images.
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