Aiming at the problems of poor flexibility, complicated path maintenance and poor positioning performance in the current guidance technology of AGV, this paper designs and implements a new navigation system of automat...
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This study aims at developing a digital signalprocessing algorithm to extract positive and negative peak velocity profiles from Doppler echocardiographic images. These profiles are useful in estimating cardiac time i...
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(纸本)9781538659168
This study aims at developing a digital signalprocessing algorithm to extract positive and negative peak velocity profiles from Doppler echocardiographic images. These profiles are useful in estimating cardiac time intervals and establishing realistic boundary conditions for computational hemodynamic studies. The proposed imageprocessing algorithm is based on two different thresholding methods. The histograms of image intensity function were used to help threshold values selection so that the algorithm yields velocity profiles properly represent Doppler shift envelopes. One of the thresholding methods tended to provide the lower-limit (i.e. underestimate) of the velocity profile, while the second tended to provide the upper-limit of the velocity profile (i.e., overestimate). The final peak velocity profiles were estimated from the combination of the estimates from both thresholding methods. The peak velocity profiles were then qualitatively compared with the results of the standard edge detection methods such as Canny and Prewitt approximations. The proposed automated approach might be helpful for objective estimation of peak velocities and cardiac time intervals.
Convolution neural network (CNN) is a typical feedforward neural network, which gains extraordinary performance in image recognition. Features are extracted by convolution layers automatically for classification, but ...
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(纸本)9781538685273
Convolution neural network (CNN) is a typical feedforward neural network, which gains extraordinary performance in image recognition. Features are extracted by convolution layers automatically for classification, but high in computation complexity. As an enhanced convolution algorithm, image to column (im2col) method accelerates the calculation with redundant memory overhead. In this work, we present Memory Saving Method (MSM) to improve convolution efficiency with lower memory consumption by elements rearrangement of input blocks. Block calculation can be executed both in serial and in parallel for their independence. It is demonstrated by the experimental results that MSM achieves the same acceleration effect yet sparing memory space for approximately two orders of magnitude with no drop of accuracy.
Feature representation and feature fusion are important factors in image classification problem. In this paper, the local features, mid-level features and convolutional features are combined using the multiple kernel ...
Feature representation and feature fusion are important factors in image classification problem. In this paper, the local features, mid-level features and convolutional features are combined using the multiple kernel learning method. Experimental results show that the local features, mid-level features and convolutional features can be fused effectively to improve the classification performance about 4%-6% on several popular benchmarks.
Segmentation accuracy is critical in CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) nondestructive detection. And it is influenced by the segmentation accuracy of CBCT serial slice images. However, the noise and artifacts in CB...
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(纸本)9781538685273
Segmentation accuracy is critical in CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) nondestructive detection. And it is influenced by the segmentation accuracy of CBCT serial slice images. However, the noise and artifacts in CBCT images make it hard to segment CBCT images precisely. To increase CBCT image segmentation accuracy, the 3D information in CBCT images should be fully used. We proposed and compared four connection models for CBCT images pretreatment. They can decrease the noise in CBCT images. Moreover, we propose a 3D CBCT image segmentation method based on the accumulated FCM_S. In the experiment, CBCT slice images of a workpiece are segmented by our proposed method and comparing methods. The segmentation results certified the effectiveness of our method.
These years has witnessed the success of deep learning methods in computer vision. The approximation capabilities of neural networks is partly responsible for these success, and active function is crucial for the appr...
These years has witnessed the success of deep learning methods in computer vision. The approximation capabilities of neural networks is partly responsible for these success, and active function is crucial for the approximation capability. Motivated by the success of deep learning, this paper presents an Actived Edge Strength Similarity (AESSIM) based image quality assessment algorithm. Numerical experiments on the public datasets indicates that AESSIM is quite competitive in assessing performance.
Ultrasound imaging offers a low cost, noninvasive and portable system, which allowed it to be an invaluable tool for medical imaging. However, the quality of the reconstructed images depends significantly on the beamf...
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(数字)9781728173030
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728173047
Ultrasound imaging offers a low cost, noninvasive and portable system, which allowed it to be an invaluable tool for medical imaging. However, the quality of the reconstructed images depends significantly on the beamforming technique utilized. Although advanced data-adaptive methods of reconstruction such as Minimum Variance (MV) beamforming can recover image quality much higher than conventional techniques, their implementation also entails a heavy computational burden. This dichotomy hinders the ultrasound imaging use as a standalone device in some applications such as early breast cancer detection. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown a huge potential when applied to many Artificial intelligence (AI) research fields. In this work, the use of Deep learning in improving the quality of the beamforming technique Delay and Sum (DAS) normally used for ultrasound (US) images reconstruction is explored. Three different architectures are implemented: Convolutional AutoEncoder (CAE), Fully Connected network (FC) and U-Net-like architecture. They were trained on datasets simulated using field II. The dataset consists of input-output pairs where the input is Noisy DAS beamformed scan lines and the output is MV beamformed non-noisy scan lines. The networks show a great ability in predicting the beamformed signals along with significantly reducing noise in the reconstructed images. Additionally, the proposed networks improve other image characteristics such as scatterer size and position along with reducing tail characteristic normally found in DAS beamformed ultrasound images. US images constructed by the networks achieved better quality metrics that surpass conventional DAS beamformed images. The CAE, U-net-like architecture, and FC enhanced the signal to noise ratio (SNR) compared to DAS by 218%, 165% and 136% respectively. Additionally, the networks showed higher Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) and Contrast Ratio (CR) metrics than DAS beamformed signals. Finally, the propo
The goal of this work was to design a low-cost computing facility that can support the development of an open source digital pathology corpus containing 1M images [1]. A single image from a clinical-grade digital path...
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(纸本)9781538659168
The goal of this work was to design a low-cost computing facility that can support the development of an open source digital pathology corpus containing 1M images [1]. A single image from a clinical-grade digital pathology scanner can range in size from hundreds of megabytes to five gigabytes. A 1M image database requires over a petabyte (PB) of disk space. To do meaningful work in this problem space requires a significant allocation of computing resources. The improvements and expansions to our HPC (high-performance computing) cluster, known as Neuronix [2], required to support working with digital pathology fall into two broad categories: computation and storage. To handle the increased computational burden and increase job throughput, we are using Slurm [3] as our scheduler and resource manager. For storage, we have designed and implemented a multi-layer filesystem architecture to distribute a filesystem across multiple machines. These enhancements, which are entirely based on open source software, have extended the capabilities of our cluster and increased its cost-effectiveness.
This paper presents a computational solution towards human-robot interaction using a wrist-mounted tri-axial accelerometer. This is tackled as a three-fold gesture recognition problem with a gesture set including six ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728124858
ISBN:
(纸本)9781728124865
This paper presents a computational solution towards human-robot interaction using a wrist-mounted tri-axial accelerometer. This is tackled as a three-fold gesture recognition problem with a gesture set including six different gestures, namely right, front, left, back, up and circle. Given the sparsity of gestures, an adaptive segmentation technique is employed as a means of spotting potential segments of interest within the signal. Relevant features are a posteriori calculated from the spotted segments. Ultimately, a range of five state-of-the-art classifiers are employed for the classification of the gestures. The results achieved, with an average classification accuracy of 95.85%, show a great contribution towards modern human-robot interaction technologies.
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