A Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system which identifies similar medical images based on a query image can assist clinicians for more accurate diagnosis. The recent CBIR research trend favors the construction an...
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(纸本)9781509006212
A Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system which identifies similar medical images based on a query image can assist clinicians for more accurate diagnosis. The recent CBIR research trend favors the construction and use of binary codes to represent images. Deep architectures could learn the non-linear relationship among image pixels adaptively, allowing the automatic learning of high-level features from raw pixels. However, most of them require class labels, which are expensive to obtain, particularly for medical images. The methods which do not need class labels utilize a deep autoencoder for binary hashing, but the code construction involves a specific training algorithm and an ad-hoc regularization technique. In this study, we explored using a deep de-noising autoencoder (DDA), with a new unsupervised training scheme using only backpropagation and dropout, to hash images into binary codes. We conducted experiments on more than 14,000 x-ray images. By using class labels only for evaluating the retrieval results, we constructed a 16-bit DDA and a 512-bit DDA independently. Comparing to other unsupervised methods, we succeeded to obtain the lowest total error by using the 512-bit codes for retrieval via exhaustive search, and speed up 9.27 times with the use of the 16-bit codes while keeping a comparable total error. We found that our new training scheme could reduce the total retrieval error significantly by 21.9%. To further boost the image retrieval performance, we developed Radon Autoencoder Barcode (RABC) which are learned from the Radon projections of images using a de-noising autoencoder. Experimental results demonstrated its superior performance in retrieval when it was combined with DDA binary codes.
This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of a second order twisting control algorithm with PID sliding surface for aMEM S micromirror.A laser scanning system with the closed-loop controlled MEM S micromir...
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(纸本)9781467374439
This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of a second order twisting control algorithm with PID sliding surface for aMEM S micromirror.A laser scanning system with the closed-loop controlled MEM S micromirror is developed and obtains 2D *** response and pointing performance are essential for the optical communications applications,for instance,MEM S optical *** verify the effectiveness of theproposed scheme,the experiments of set-point regulation are *** with traditional sliding mode control,the proposed scheme is able to improve the pointing accuracy with less chattering phenomenon.A micromirror-based laser scanning system is developed,the experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme is able to reduce the distortion of the scan trajectory and improve the image quality.
Markov random fields (MRFs) and conditional random fields (CRFs) are influential tools in image modeling, particularly for applications such as image segmentation. Local MRFs and CRFs utilize local nodal interactions ...
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(纸本)9781479983407
Markov random fields (MRFs) and conditional random fields (CRFs) are influential tools in image modeling, particularly for applications such as image segmentation. Local MRFs and CRFs utilize local nodal interactions when modeling, leading to excessive smoothness on boundaries (i.e., the short-boundary bias problem). Recently, the concept of fully connected conditional random fields with stochastic cliques (SFCRF) was proposed to enable long-range nodal interactions while addressing the computational complexity associated with fully connected random fields. While SFCRF was shown to provide significant improvements in segmentation accuracy, there were still limitations with the preservation of fine structure boundaries. To address these limitations, we propose a new approach to stochastic clique formation for fully connected random fields (G-SFCRF) that is guided by the structural characteristics of different nodes within the random field. In particular, fine structures surrounding a node are modeled statistically by probability distributions, and stochastic cliques are formed by considering the statistical similarities between nodes within the random fields. Experimental results show that G-SFCRF outperforms existing fully connected CRF frameworks, SFCRF, and the principled deep random field framework for image segmentation.
Local saliency models are a cornerstone in image processing and computer vision, used in a wide variety of applications ranging from keypoint detection and feature extraction, to image matching and image representatio...
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(纸本)9781479983407
Local saliency models are a cornerstone in image processing and computer vision, used in a wide variety of applications ranging from keypoint detection and feature extraction, to image matching and image representation. However, current models exhibit difficulties in achieving consistent results under varying, non-ideal illumination conditions. In this paper, a novel texture-illumination guided energy response (TIGER) model for illumination robust local saliency is proposed. In the TIGER model, local saliency is quantified by a modified Hessian energy response guided by a weighted aggregate of texture and illumination aspects from the image. A stochastic Bayesian disassociation approach via Monte Carlo sampling is employed to decompose the image into its texture and illumination aspects for the saliency computation. Experimental results demonstrate that higher correlation between local saliency maps constructed from the same scene under different illumination conditions can be achieved using the TIGER model when compared to common local saliency approach, i.e., Laplacian of Gaussian, Difference of Gaussians, and Hessian saliency models.
The reconstruction of high dynamic range (HDR) images via conventional camera systems and low dynamic range (LDR) images is a growing field of research in image acquisition. The radiance map associated with the HDR im...
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(纸本)9781479983407
The reconstruction of high dynamic range (HDR) images via conventional camera systems and low dynamic range (LDR) images is a growing field of research in image acquisition. The radiance map associated with the HDR image of a scene is typically computed using multiple images of the same scene captured at different exposures (i.e., bracketed LDR imzages). This approach, though inexpensive, is sensitive to noise under high camera ISO. Each bracketed image is associated with a different level of noise due to the change in exposure time, and the noise is further amplified when tone-mapping the HDR image for display. A new framework is proposed to address the associated noise in the context of random fields. The estimation of the HDR image from a set of LDR images is formulated as a stochastically fully connected conditional random field where the spatial information is incorporated to compute the HDR value in combination with the LDR image values. Experimental results show that the proposed framework compensated the non-stationary ISO noise while preserving the boundaries in the estimated HDR images.
A limitation of active contours models (both parametric and geometric) is their sensitivity to noise. Many solutions to noise sensitivity have been proposed in the literature, with the current state-of-the-art based o...
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(纸本)9781479983407
A limitation of active contours models (both parametric and geometric) is their sensitivity to noise. Many solutions to noise sensitivity have been proposed in the literature, with the current state-of-the-art based on image blurring and multiresolution processing. However a significant drawback of both approaches is the side effect of edge delocalization. In this paper, gradient information extracted from all resolutions of the undecimated wavelet transform is used to build the external force map for the active contour. The new map accurately drives the active contour and improves edge localization. The proposed method builds on both Gradient Vector Flow and Vector Field Convolution active contours. Comparisons to classical and state-of-the-art methods show a dramatic improvement in active contour convergence for all levels of noise.
Multi-atlas label fusion is a widely used approach in medical image analysis that has improved the accuracy of segmentation. Majority voting, as the most common combination strategy, weighs each candidate in the atlas...
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A limitation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image segmentation is the poor signal-to-noise ratio of the imaging process, particularly because images are sampled quickly, at high resolutions, and in-vivo. Furthe...
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Data quality is an important and costly topic in modern society, and data quality and contextual data quality are important components of the human-computer relationship. As a long-term design imperative, the user int...
Data quality is an important and costly topic in modern society, and data quality and contextual data quality are important components of the human-computer relationship. As a long-term design imperative, the user interface needs to be improved to support better data quality. To design for better data quality, this exploratory study characterizes physicians’ opinions on their own data and the data produced by their colleagues. Through a regional survey and semi-structured interviews, the issue of data style and medical record personality was a dominant theme. A record’s personality impacts an individual user’s willingness to accept the data it contains. Future work will incorporate these results into modeling the data quality problem with cognitive work analysis, and will explore design elements to support the design for better data quality.
Rekimoto's Pick-and-Drop (P&D) transfer technique is commonly used to support multi-surface object transfer (e.g., between a shared tabletop and tablet) due to its easily understood metaphor of emulating objec...
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