Retinopathy is a retinal vascular disease caused by abnormal blood flow that damages the retina and it accounts for 5% of blindness worldwide. There are different causes of Retinopathy as retinopathy of prematurity, d...
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(纸本)9781728106465
Retinopathy is a retinal vascular disease caused by abnormal blood flow that damages the retina and it accounts for 5% of blindness worldwide. There are different causes of Retinopathy as retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy and hypertensive retinopathy;this paper mainly focuses on preprocessing techniques employed for the detection of diabetic retinopathy. In this work, literatures reporting different methods for automated diabetic retinopathy detection in color images of retina are analyzed for their strength and shortcoming. Extensive techniques for retinal image screening have been published so far thus this paper presents the evaluation of these methods on a common database of image screening. Different image pre-processing techniques are implemented on fundus images and their performance is compared using performance metrics like mean square error, peak signal to noise ratio and root mean square error. Pre-processing steps used in this work can also be applied to other images of interest to identify and recognize the objects in an image.
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is one of today's most challenging projects in ground based astronomy. Addressing one of the key science cases for the E-ELT, the study of the early Universe, require...
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(纸本)9781538643686
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is one of today's most challenging projects in ground based astronomy. Addressing one of the key science cases for the E-ELT, the study of the early Universe, requires the implementation of multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO), a dedicated concept relying on turbulence tomography. We use a novel pseudo-analytical approach to simulate the performance of tomographic reconstruction of the atmospheric turbulence in a MOAO system on real datasets. We simulate simultaneously 4K galaxies in a common field of view on massively parallel supercomputers during a single night of observations. We are able to generate a first-ever high resolution galaxy map at almost a real-time throughput. This simulation scale opens new research horizons in numerical methods for experimental astronomy, some core components of the pipeline standing as pathfinders toward actual operations and future astronomic discoveries on the E-ELT.
MapReduce is a powerful distributed data analysis programming model. It runs on big data storage systems and processes data in a parallel way. An appropriate way to ensure the correctness of MapReduce programs is form...
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MapReduce is a powerful distributed data analysis programming model. It runs on big data storage systems and processes data in a parallel way. An appropriate way to ensure the correctness of MapReduce programs is formal method analysis, which requires firstly a formal model of MapReduce. In this paper we propose a modeling language to establish the formal model of the MapReduce framework. Unlike other approaches, our language describes the processing of data in the MapReduce programs from a perspective of underlying files and blocks, so that the details of data processing can be clearly demonstrated. The language is based on our previous work, a language describing the management of massive data storage systems, with extensions from two aspects: block content data refinement and concurrency support. Based on our language, the features of the MapReduce programming model can be discussed.
Traditional phishing detection methods are mostly based on computer platforms and cannot be directly applied to mobile devices. This paper proposes a new two-dimensional code phishing detection method called LogoPhish...
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(纸本)9781728111414
Traditional phishing detection methods are mostly based on computer platforms and cannot be directly applied to mobile devices. This paper proposes a new two-dimensional code phishing detection method called LogoPhish. We use the logo to determine the identity between a two-dimensional code's actual identity and the described identity. The method includes two processes: logo extraction and identity detection. The first process uses a mobile phone to scan the two-dimensional code to extract the logo and perform imageprocessing. The second process uses the Google image search engine to determine the identity of the logo. Since the relationship between the logo and the domain name is exclusive, it is reasonable to use the domain name as an identifier. The experimental results show that LogoPhish has a good effect and is superior to the traditional detection method in the detection of two-dimensional code phishing attacks.
In this paper, we present a new distributed algorithm for minimizing a sum of non-necessarily differentiable convex functions composed with arbitrary linear operators. The overall cost function is assumed strongly con...
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(纸本)9781479970612
In this paper, we present a new distributed algorithm for minimizing a sum of non-necessarily differentiable convex functions composed with arbitrary linear operators. The overall cost function is assumed strongly convex. Each involved function is associated with a node of a hypergraph having the ability to communicate with neighboring nodes sharing the same hyperedge. Our algorithm relies on a primal-dual splitting strategy with established convergence guarantees. We show how it can be efficiently implemented to take full advantage of a multicore architecture. The good numerical performance of the proposed approach is illustrated in a problem of video sequence denoising, where a significant speedup is achieved.
Background: The diagnosis of diseases correctly became a challenge, and any error can cost patients life, especially when there is a lack of knowledge or expertise related to a disease, it often results in patient'...
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Background: The diagnosis of diseases correctly became a challenge, and any error can cost patients life, especially when there is a lack of knowledge or expertise related to a disease, it often results in patient's death or takes the form of an epidemic, as we have seen in the case of Ebola. Objective: The automation and the development of reliable diagnostic systems became a necessity. Through the use of technology, we can automatically share the knowledge without formal interaction as well as we can identify areas where the disease is spreading while it is not known by the doctors there. methods: We have presented a complete system that utilizes a combination of one of the best techniques in the field of parallelism, classification, and knowledge sharing. We have used two data sets (DDSM and Belarus Tuberculosis data) to test the applicability of the idea. After retrieving the data, the images are preprocessed, and then Gray level co-occurrence matrix features have been extracted and finally passed to training using three versions of support vector machines. Results: GPU-Accelerated SVM outperformed both parallelized SVM and sequential SVM using breast cancer data, but with lung CT images, GPU-accelerated LIBSVM have not given a remarkable speed-up because the data is small and the gain is lost due to the gpu-cpu memory and cpu-gpu transfer time. The accuracy performances given by three SVMs were identical. Conclusion: Automation through knowledge sharing and parallel computing can help to deal across the world with diseases and it will be easy for doctors to draw the inference.
Red blood cell segmentation in microscopic images is the first step for various clinical studies carried out on blood samples such as cell counting, cell shape identification, etc. Conventional methods while often sho...
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(纸本)9781728111414
Red blood cell segmentation in microscopic images is the first step for various clinical studies carried out on blood samples such as cell counting, cell shape identification, etc. Conventional methods while often showing a high accuracy are heavily depending on the acquisition modality. Deep learning approaches have shown to be more robust regarding such modalities and still showing a comparable accuracy. In this paper, we first investigate necessary steps to apply a specific type of deep learning methods, namely fully convolutional networks, to red blood cell segmentation. Based on data given and constraints imposed by our partners mainly regarding a high throughput of their data we then describe an exemplary application. First results show, that even with a focus on high performance a good accuracy above 90% can be reached.
Linear operators used in iterative methods like conjugate gradient have typically been implemented either as "matrix-driven" subroutines backed by explicit sparse or dense matrices, or as "matrix-free&q...
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(纸本)9781538643686
Linear operators used in iterative methods like conjugate gradient have typically been implemented either as "matrix-driven" subroutines backed by explicit sparse or dense matrices, or as "matrix-free" subroutines that implement specific linear operations directly (e.g. FFTs). The matrix-driven approach is generally more portable because it can target widely-available BLAS libraries, but it can be inefficient in terms of time and space complexity. In contrast, the matrix-free approach is more performant because it leverages structure in operations, but it requires each operator be re-implemented on each new platform. To increase performance and portability, we propose a hybrid approach that represents linear operators as expression trees. Leaf nodes in the tree are either matrix-free or matrix-driven operators, and interior nodes represent mathematical compositions (sums, products, transposes) or structural compositions (stacks, block diagonals, etc.) of the leaf operators. This representation enables expert-guided reordering and fusion transformations that can improve performance or reduce memory pressure. We implement our approach in a domain-specific language called Indigo. We assess Indigo on image reconstruction problems arising in four application areas: magnetic resonance imaging, ptychography, magnetic particle imaging, and fluorescent microscopy. We give performance results from vendor BLAS libraries, and we introduce specializations to Sparse BLAS routines that achieve near-Roofline performance on multi-core, many-core, and GPU systems.
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