The problem of improving image quality in ultrafast ultrasound (US) imaging by means of regularized iterative algorithms has raised a vast interest in the US community. These approaches usually rely on standard image ...
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The problem of improving image quality in ultrafast ultrasound (US) imaging by means of regularized iterative algorithms has raised a vast interest in the US community. These approaches usually rely on standard imageprocessing priors, such as wavelet sparsity, which are of limited efficacy in the context of US imaging. Moreover, the high computational complexity of iterative approaches make them difficult to deploy in real-time applications. We propose an approach which relies on a convolutional neural network trained exclusively on a simulated dataset for the purpose of improving images reconstructed from a single plane wave (PW) insonification. We provide extensive results on numerical and in vivo data from the plane wave imaging challenge (PICMUS). We show that the proposed approach can be applied in real-time settings, with an increase in contrast-to-noise ratio of more than 8.4 dB and an improvement of the lateral resolution by at least 25 %.
image segmentation is a classical problem in imageprocessing, which aims at defining an image partition where each identified region corresponds to some object present in the scene. The watershed algorithm is a power...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319572406;9783319572390
image segmentation is a classical problem in imageprocessing, which aims at defining an image partition where each identified region corresponds to some object present in the scene. The watershed algorithm is a powerful tool from mathematical morphology to perform this specific task. When applied directly to the gradient of the image to be segmented, it usually yields an over-segmented image. To address this issue, one often uses markers that roughly correspond to the locations of the objects to be segmented. The main challenge associated to marker-controlled segmentation becomes thus the determination of the markers locations. In this article, we present a novel method to select markers for the watershed algorithm based upon multi-resolution approximations. The main principle of the method is to rely on the discrete decimated wavelet transform to obtain successive approximations of the image to be segmented. The minima of the gradient image of each coarse approximation are then propagated back to the original image space and selected as markers for the watershed transform, thus defining a hierarchical structure for the detected contours. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated by comparing its results to manually segmented images from the Berkeley segmentation database.
The core of many DSP applications involve convolution which was previously implemented by Multiply and Accumulate operations or MAC. It requires a number of multipliers and accumulators. The use of multipliers and acc...
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(纸本)9781538632437
The core of many DSP applications involve convolution which was previously implemented by Multiply and Accumulate operations or MAC. It requires a number of multipliers and accumulators. The use of multipliers and accumulators result in faster execution but it also results in an increase in cost. Also the number of multipliers and adders are limited. Hence a new technique known as Distributed Arithmetic (DA) was proposed. It is basically a multiplier-less concept utilizing Lookup Table (LUT). It is used when one of the operand is fixed. The input enters into a serial register which is used to access the LUT. To get the address from the LUT we consider the bit positions and get the values of inputs by that bit position. The output from the lookup table is shifted accordingly and the shifted results are added together to form the final result. Hence it basically involves accessing the lookup table, shift and add operation. After implementing the DA logic and comparing it with the convolution scheme, we apply this concept in Discrete wavelet Transform (DWT) of an image and ECG signal by using Haar filter coefficient.
There is a dearth of high quality reconfigurable hardware for DWT which can be extensively used in various real time signal and imageprocessingapplications. In this article, we have focused on proposing a dedicated ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538665763;9781538665756
There is a dearth of high quality reconfigurable hardware for DWT which can be extensively used in various real time signal and imageprocessingapplications. In this article, we have focused on proposing a dedicated customizable hardware for DWT applicable to 1D/2D signalprocessing. We have proposed bit-serial Distributed Arithmetic (DA) based VLSI architectures for ID/2D DWT. Exploitation of DA enables us to make our designs Multiplierless, thereby consuming less area. Bit serial configuration of DA is also exploited to introduce modularity and pipelining in the proposed convolution DWT based 1D/2D architectures. Though the speed of the proposed designs may not be suitable for certain applications, a number of parallel channels can be introduced for the same. The provision of mode selection can efficiently be used to realize 9/7 and also 5/3 DWT filters in the same proposed architecture. In the proposed 1D/2D architecture, we have achieved about 50% memory size reduction, 30% reduction in area consumption and comparable speed in comparison to the other latest notable DWT architecture so far. We have verified the viability of our proposed 2D architecture by utilizing it in real time image decomposition.
Objective: The present study introduces a fractional wavelet scattering network (FrScatNet), which is a generalized translation invariant version of the classical wavelet scattering network (ScatNet). Methods: In our ...
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This paper investigates some of medical image fusion techniques and discusses the most important advantages and disadvantages of these techniques to develop hybrid techniques that enhance the fused image quality. Both...
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Compressive sensing theory has in recent years been increasingly used in various pattern recognition applications. Compressive sensing theory makes it possible, under certain assumptions, to recover a signal or an ima...
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Compressive sensing theory has in recent years been increasingly used in various pattern recognition applications. Compressive sensing theory makes it possible, under certain assumptions, to recover a signal or an image sampled below the Nyquist sampling limit. In this work, a new application of compressive sensing based on the threshold algorithm, in the area of controlling and monitoring of high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy, was investigated. In this work, a new method of high-intensity focused ultrasound lesion detection is presented based on a modified compressive sensing method in combination with the threshold algorithm and the wavelet transforms. In this study, analysis of the suggested method is performed using two sets of data: simulated and experimental ultrasound radio frequency data. The results of processing the data show that the proposed algorithm results in enhancement of the high-intensity focused ultrasound lesion contrast in comparison with the ultrasound B-mode and standard compressive sensing imaging methods. The results of the study show that the modified compressive sensing method could effectively detect thermal lesions in vitro. Comparing the estimated size of the thermal lesion (8.3mmx8.4mm) using the proposed algorithm with the actual size of that from physical examination (10.1mmx9mm) shows that we could detect high-intensity focused ultrasound thermal lesions with the difference of 0.8mmx0.5mm.
The article presents the results of studies on interference suppression in optoelectronic methods for monitoring weft thread weaving looms on the basis of linear image sensors caused by inhomogeneities of the backgrou...
The article presents the results of studies on interference suppression in optoelectronic methods for monitoring weft thread weaving looms on the basis of linear image sensors caused by inhomogeneities of the background created by sources of natural or artificial light sources in a controlled image scene. Existing solutions that use linear or nonlinear filtering are focused primarily on the processing of two-dimensional images on personal computers and are unsuitable for use in embedded applications. In particular, their use is also ineffective for solving the above problem, when the useful signal is defined as the difference between the output signals of the photodetector taken at a fixed time interval. As studies have shown, in this case, the best result is the use of discrete wavelet-transform.
Grid impedance estimation is used in many power system applications such as power quality analysis of smart grids and grid connected renewable energy systems. In this paper a low power and high frequency range signal ...
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Nowadays, three-dimensional meshes have been extensively used in several applications such as, industrial, medical, computer-aided design (CAD) and entertainment due to the processing capability improvement of compute...
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