Mammogram images are now increasingly acquired with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems in the clinics. Traditionally, the "for-processing" format of FFDM images is used in computer-aided diagnosis...
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(纸本)9781467399623
Mammogram images are now increasingly acquired with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems in the clinics. Traditionally, the "for-processing" format of FFDM images is used in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using "for-presentation" format of FFDM (which are more readily available) in development of CAD algorithms for microcalcification (MC) lesions. We conduct a quantitative evaluation of both the image features and the detectability of individual MCs on a set of 188 mammograms acquired in both formats. The results demonstrate that there is a high degree of agreement in the image features between the two image formats, and that a slight increase in false-positives in MC detection is observed in for-presentation images.
The technology convergence and the evolution of embedded systems to multi/many-core architectures allow envisioning future cameras as many-core systems able to process complex imageprocessing and Computer Vision (IP/...
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The technology convergence and the evolution of embedded systems to multi/many-core architectures allow envisioning future cameras as many-core systems able to process complex imageprocessing and Computer Vision (IP/CV) applications. IP/CV algorithms have natural parallelism which must be efficiently explored to meet embedded application's constraints (real-time, power consumption, silicon area, temperature management, fault tolerance, and so on). In the case of many-core architectures, the efficiency comes not only from the number and type of processing cores but how they communicate and how the memory is organized. In this work, we show a multi-level parallelism study of IP/CV algorithms/applications, analyzing how to explore the different features available in many-core architecture's design space. The analysis is performed using a high-level SystemC/TLM2.0 platform specially developed for this task. As results, we propose a hierarchical parallelism extraction, a transparent programming model and a many-core architecture template for the next generation of vision processors.
In this paper, we introduce a novel edge directed image detail preserving impulse noise removal algorithm. Our approach is based on local image directionality features. Local edge features are analysed on both a downs...
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In this paper, we introduce a novel edge directed image detail preserving impulse noise removal algorithm. Our approach is based on local image directionality features. Local edge features are analysed on both a downsampled version of the image and the noisy image, and both soft an sharp edges are considered for selective noise removal. Experimental results on a set of standard images show our technique to be effective in removing salt-and-pepper noise even at high noise levels, to yield good image quality and to outperform a number of other noise removal techniques.
We introduce a new machine learning approach for image segmentation that uses a neural network to model the conditional energy of a segmentation given an image. Our approach, combinatorial energy learning for image se...
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(纸本)9781510838819
We introduce a new machine learning approach for image segmentation that uses a neural network to model the conditional energy of a segmentation given an image. Our approach, combinatorial energy learning for image segmentation (CELIS) places a particular emphasis on modeling the inherent combinatorial nature of dense image segmentation problems. We propose efficient algorithms for learning deep neural networks to model the energy function, and for local optimization of this energy in the space of supervoxel agglomerations. We extensively evaluate our method on a publicly available 3-D microscopy dataset with 25 billion voxels of ground truth data. On an 11 billion voxel test set, we find that our method improves volumetric reconstruction accuracy by more than 20% as compared to two state-of-the-art baseline methods: graph-based segmentation of the output of a 3-D convolutional neural network trained to predict boundaries, as well as a random forest classifier trained to agglomerate supervoxels that were generated by a 3-D convolutional neural network.
Missile-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system is built up according to actual working principle, it uses the input data and embedded algorithms to simulate echo, then generate SAR image. Relevant algorit...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509007691
Missile-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging system is built up according to actual working principle, it uses the input data and embedded algorithms to simulate echo, then generate SAR image. Relevant algorithms is analyzed, a SAR echo simulation method based on graphic processing unit (GPU) acceleration is presented to satisfy the request of real-time. Simulation platform realized by MATLAB GUI turns out to be reliable and interactive, it can meet the demand for missile-borne SAR system test and development, and has some practical value.
In this paper, we present an automated algorithm for detection of blood vessels in 2D-thermographic images for breast cancer screening. Vessel extraction from breast thermal images help in the classification of malign...
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In this paper, we present an automated algorithm for detection of blood vessels in 2D-thermographic images for breast cancer screening. Vessel extraction from breast thermal images help in the classification of malignancy as cancer causes increased blood flow at warmer temperatures, additional vessel formation and tortuosity of vessels feeding the cancerous growth. The proposed algorithm uses three enhanced images to detect possible vessel regions based on their intensity and shape. The final vessel detection combines these three outputs. The algorithm does not depend on the variation of pixel intensity in the images but only depends on the relative variation unlike many standard algorithms. On a dataset of over 40 subjects with high-resolution thermographic images, we are able to extract the vessels accurately with elimination of diffused heat regions. Future studies would involve extracting features from the detected vessels and using these features for classification of malignancy.
In this work, we present a parallel implementation of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method on Graphics processing Units (GPUs) using CUDA programming model. Our approach is based on an iterative parallel vers...
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In this work, we present a parallel implementation of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method on Graphics processing Units (GPUs) using CUDA programming model. Our approach is based on an iterative parallel version of the QR factorization by means Givens plane rotations using the Sameh and Kuck scheme. The parallel algorithm is driven by an outer loop executed on the CPU. Therefore, threads and blocks configuration is organized in order to use the shared memory and avoid multiple accesses to global memory. However, the main kernel provides coalesced accesses to global memory using contiguous indices. As case study, we consider the application of the SVD in the Overcomplete Local Principal Component Analysis (OLPCA) algorithm for the Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) denoising process. Our results show significant improvements in terms of performances with respect to the CPU version that encourage its usability for this expensive application.
Recently, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become widely used in safety, security, and commercial aspects. The whole ANPR system is based on three main stages: Number Plate Localization (NPL), Ch...
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Recently, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become widely used in safety, security, and commercial aspects. The whole ANPR system is based on three main stages: Number Plate Localization (NPL), Character Segmentation (CS), and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In recent years, to provide better recognition rate, High Definition (HD) cameras have started to be used. However, most known techniques for standard definition are not suitable for real-time HD imageprocessing due to the computationally intensive cost of localizing the number plate. In this paper, algorithms to implement the three main stages of a high definition ANPR system for Qatari number plates are presented. The algorithms have been tested using MATLAB and two databases as a proof of concept. Implementation results have shown that the system is able to process one HD image in 61 ms, with an accuracy of 98.0% in NPL, 99.75% per character in CS, and 99.5% in OCR.
There are several algorithms and methods that could be applied to perform the character recognition stage of an automatic number plate recognition system; however, the constraints of having a high recognition rate and...
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There are several algorithms and methods that could be applied to perform the character recognition stage of an automatic number plate recognition system; however, the constraints of having a high recognition rate and real-time processing should be taken into consideration. In this paper four algorithms applied to Qatari number plates are presented and compared. The proposed algorithms are based on feature extraction (vector crossing, zoning, combined zoning and vector crossing) and template matching techniques. All four proposed algorithms have been implemented and tested using MATLAB. A total of 2790 Qatari binary character images were used to test the algorithms. Template matching based algorithm showed the highest recognition rate of 99.5% with an average time of 1.95 ms per character.
Some of the imageprocessingalgorithms are verycostly in terms of operations and time. To use these algorithmsin real-time environment, optimization and vectorization arenecessary. In this paper, approaches are propo...
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(纸本)9781467382878
Some of the imageprocessingalgorithms are verycostly in terms of operations and time. To use these algorithmsin real-time environment, optimization and vectorization arenecessary. In this paper, approaches are proposed to optimize, vectorize and how to fit the algorithm in low memory space. Here, optimized anisotropic diffusion based fog removal algorithm isproposed. Fog removal algorithm removes the fog from imageand produces an image having better visibility. This algorithmhas many phases like anisotropic diffusion, histogram stretchingand smoothing. Anisotropic diffusion is an iterative process thattakes nearly 70% of time complexity of the whole algorithm. Here, optimization and vectorization of the anisotropic diffusion is proposed for better performance. However, optimizationtechniques cost some accuracy but that can be neglected forsignificant improvement in performance. For memory constraintenvironment, a method is proposed to process the entire blockof image and maintains the integrity of operations. Resultsconfirm that with our optimization and vectorization approaches, performance is increased up to 90 fps (approximately) for VGAimage on one of the imageprocessing DSP simulator. Even if, system doesn't have vector operations, the proposed optimizationtechniques can be used to achieve better performance (2× faster).
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