The aim of this work was to evaluate how different acquisition geometries and reconstruction parameters affect the performance of four digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) systems (Senographe Essential - GE, Mammomat In...
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The aim of this work was to evaluate how different acquisition geometries and reconstruction parameters affect the performance of four digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) systems (Senographe Essential - GE, Mammomat Inspiration -Siemens, Selenia Dimensions - Hologic and Amulet Innovality - Fujifilm) on the basis of a physical characterization. Average Glandular Dose (AGD) and image quality parameters such as in-plane/in-depth resolution, signal difference to noise ratio (SDNR) and artefact spread function (ASF) were examined. Measured AGD values resulted below EUREF limits for 2D imaging. A large variability was recorded among the investigated systems: the mean dose ratio DBT/2D ranged between 1.1 and 1.9. In-plane resolution was in the range: 2.2 mm (1)-3.8 mm (1) in chest wall-nipple direction. A worse resolution was found for all devices in tube travel direction. In-depth resolution improved with increasing scan angle but was also affected by the choice of reconstruction and post-processingalgorithms. The highest z-resolution was provided by Siemens (50 degrees, FWHM = 2.3 mm) followed by GE (25 degrees, FWHM = 2.8 mm), while the Fujifilm HR showed the lowest one, despite its wide scan angle (40 degrees, FWHM = 4.1 mm). The ASF was dependent on scan angle: smaller range systems showed wider ASF curves;however a clear relationship was not found between scan angle and ASF, due to the different post processing and reconstruction algorithms. SDNR analysis, performed on Fujifilm system, demonstrated that pixel binning improves detectability for a fixed dose/projection. In conclusion, we provide a performance comparison among four DBT systems under a clinical acquisition mode. (C) 2016 Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image...
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ISBN:
(数字)9789811052309
ISBN:
(纸本)9789811052309;9789811052293
Due to the low accuracy of object detection and recognition in many intelligent surveillance systems at nighttime, the quality of night images is crucial. Compared with the corresponding daytime image, nighttime image is characterized as low brightness, low contrast and high noise. In this paper, a bio-inspired image enhancement algorithm is proposed to convert a low illuminance image to a brighter and clear one. Different from existing bio-inspired algorithm, the proposed method doesn't use any training sequences, we depend on a novel chain of contrast enhancement and denoising algorithms without using any forms of recursive functions. Our method can largely improve the brightness and contrast of night images, besides, suppress noise. Then we implement on real experiment, and simulation experiment to test our algorithms. Both results show the advantages of proposed algorithm over contrast pair, Meylan and Retinex.
Color image can provide more information than gray image, so it is used more widely in the field of the communication. In recent years, how to safely encrypt images has received increasing attention. Numerous previous...
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Color image can provide more information than gray image, so it is used more widely in the field of the communication. In recent years, how to safely encrypt images has received increasing attention. Numerous previous image encryption algorithms are based on the symmetric encryption algorithm, but each pair of users communicating with symmetric encryption algorithm can only use the key that others do not know, so when the sender communicates with a receiver multiple times or sends the message to multiple receivers, the key number will grow at a geometric rate, and key management will become a burden on the users. In this paper, we propose an asymmetric image encryption algorithm for the advantages that the key groups and the number of keys in secret information transmission among multiple people are very small, and key transmission mode is relatively simple and secure. In our algorithm, first, the plain image is compressed and then the color image is encrypted by using the improved 4D cat map followed by asymmetric encryption which is based on elliptic curve ElGamal encryption, and finally, the encrypted image is globally diffused. The performance analysis is performed on key spaces, key sensitivity, the capability of resisting statistical attacks, differential attacks, known plaintext attacks and chosen plaintexticiphertext attacks and quality evaluation metrics of decrypted image. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better security comparing with other algorithms. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Conventional image editing software in combination with other techniques are not only difficult to apply to an image but also permits a user to perform some basic functions one at a time. However, imageprocessing alg...
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This article presents two scheduling algorithms applied to the processing of astronomical images to detect cosmic rays on distributed memory high performance computing systems. We extend our previous article that prop...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319579726;9783319579719
This article presents two scheduling algorithms applied to the processing of astronomical images to detect cosmic rays on distributed memory high performance computing systems. We extend our previous article that proposed a parallel approach to improve processing times on image analysis using the image Reduction and Analysis Facility IRAF software and the Docker project over Apache Mesos. By default, Mesos introduces a simple list scheduling algorithm where the first available task is assigned to the first available processor. On this paper we propose two alternatives for reordering the tasks allocation in order to improve the computational efficiency. The main results show that it is possible to reduce the makespan getting a speedup=4.31 by adjusting how jobs are assigned and using Uniform processors.
In recent years, passport has been paid more and more attention. Passport is not only a certificate of the passport holders, but also involves the international anti-terrorism situation. Passport security thread, as a...
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Recently,many variational models involving high order derivatives have been widely used in imageprocessing,because they can reduce staircase effects during noise ***,it is very challenging to construct efficient algo...
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Recently,many variational models involving high order derivatives have been widely used in imageprocessing,because they can reduce staircase effects during noise ***,it is very challenging to construct efficient algo-rithms to obtain the minimizers of original high order *** this paper,we propose a new linearized augmented Lagrangian method for Euler’s elastica image denoising *** detail the procedures of finding the saddle-points of the aug-mented Lagrangian *** of solving associated linear systems by FFTor linear iterative methods(e.g.,the Gauss-Seidel method),we adopt a linearized strat-egy to get an iteration sequence so as to reduce computational *** addition,we give some simple complexity analysis for the proposed *** results with comparison to the previous method are supplied to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method,and indicate that such a linearized augmented Lagrangian method is more suitable to deal with large-sized images.
It is important to improve the integrity and accuracy of sonar image target detection, which is significant for underwater detection. In this paper, a variety of sonar image denoising algorithms and segmentation algor...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538635735
It is important to improve the integrity and accuracy of sonar image target detection, which is significant for underwater detection. In this paper, a variety of sonar image denoising algorithms and segmentation algorithms are studied, and a denoising algorithm based on fast curve transform is proposed. The image segmentation algorithm based on k-means clustering is studied, and the optimal clustering number screening and sonar image subsurface segmentation are realized. The sonar image fast segmentation algorithm based on ICM algorithm and the object contour detection of sonar image based on level set method are realized in Matlab. The results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the noise reduction effect of the sonar image under reverberation interference, and obtain a better image detection effect.
Cytopathologic testing is one of the most critical steps in the diagnosis of diseases, including cancer. However, the task is laborious and demands skill. Associated high cost and low throughput drew considerable inte...
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Cytopathologic testing is one of the most critical steps in the diagnosis of diseases, including cancer. However, the task is laborious and demands skill. Associated high cost and low throughput drew considerable interest in automating the testing process. Several neural network architectures were designed to provide human expertise to machines. In this paper, we explore and propose the feasibility of using deep-learning networks for cytopathologic analysis by performing the classification of three important unlabeled, unstained leukemia cell lines (K562, MOLT, and HL60). The cell images used in the classification are captured using a low-cost, high-throughput cell imaging technique: microfluidics-based imaging flow cytometry. We demonstrate that without any conventional fine segmentation followed by explicit feature extraction, the proposed deep-learning algorithms effectively classify the coarsely localized cell lines. We show that the designed deep belief network as well as the deeply pretrained convolutional neural network outperform the conventionally used decision systems and are important in the medical domain, where the availability of labeled data is limited for training. We hope that our work enables the development of a clinically significant high-throughput microfluidic microscopy-based tool for disease screening/triaging, especially in resource-limited settings. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America.
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