In this paper we present techniques for the 3-D reconstruction of ultrasonic images. In previous work, we presented methods for accurately determining the velocity profile within blood vessels along single lines of si...
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In this paper we present techniques for the 3-D reconstruction of ultrasonic images. In previous work, we presented methods for accurately determining the velocity profile within blood vessels along single lines of sight. Measurements of two dimensional velocity profiles in parallel planes can be achieved by simply translating the transducer over a rectangular grid. Doing so we obtain a well conditioned three-dimensional data set that can be used for a 3-D color flow mapping. In this paper we consider the problems of constructing a 3-D vessel structure and velocity vector field from image slices with good geometric quality. Examples of vessel structures and blood flow field rendering for both 7.5 MHz as well as 50 MHz transducer center frequencies are presented
A maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method is used to estimate the fractal dimension of a number of natural texture images with and without the presence of noise. An additional texture measure which can be linked to...
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A maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method is used to estimate the fractal dimension of a number of natural texture images with and without the presence of noise. An additional texture measure which can be linked to the lacunarity measure is used to characterize natural textures since fractal dimension alone cannot totally characterize texture images. Segmentation of natural textures is successfully achieved by a k-means clustering algorithm using fractal dimension and the additional measure as representative features.< >
A newly developed Picture Quality Scale (PQS) provides a numerical measure of image quality for monochrome images well correlated with the Mean Opinion Score. In this paper, we report some results on the evaluation an...
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This paper describes a simple network for a selective attention mechanism for multiple binary objects. The network is based on a concept similar to the region growing approach and is able to focus attention on one obj...
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This paper describes a simple network for a selective attention mechanism for multiple binary objects. The network is based on a concept similar to the region growing approach and is able to focus attention on one object at a time from multiple objects for a recognition process. The network consists of a growing network and an attention network. The growing network focuses on one object among others; while the attention network provides the "seed" for the region network to grow. Finally, a modification for "weightless" implementation is suggested.
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A.I. El-FallahG.E. FordCIPIC
Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing University of California Davis Davis CA USA CIPIC
Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing University of California슠Davis Davis CA USA
We introduce a new theory relating the magnitude of the image surface normal to an inhomogeneous diffusion that solely diffuses (averages) the mean curvature of the image surface. We discuss the remarkable properties ...
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We introduce a new theory relating the magnitude of the image surface normal to an inhomogeneous diffusion that solely diffuses (averages) the mean curvature of the image surface. We discuss the remarkable properties of this diffusion stressing the regularity it imposes on regions and boundaries while preserving the locality of edges and lines. Experiments demonstrating the excellent performance of the algorithms in the areas of noise removal and enhancement are presented.< >
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A.I. El-FallahG.E. FordCIPIC
Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing University of California Davis CA USA
A method is developed for the synthesis of a nonlinear adaptive filter based on solutions to the inhomogeneous diffusion equation. The approach is based on the specification of the first derivative of the signal in ti...
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A method is developed for the synthesis of a nonlinear adaptive filter based on solutions to the inhomogeneous diffusion equation. The approach is based on the specification of the first derivative of the signal in time (scale). A general solution is derived and is then specialized to the scale invariance case, in which the diffusion coefficient is shown to be the gradient inverse. A novel discrete realization of the inhomogeneous diffusion equation is developed for the noise removal problem, and experimental results are shown. The proposed algorithm not only removes noise but simultaneously enhances and localizes edges. It is extremely simple and parallel, and does not require the detection of any of the many possible line and edge configurations. Since the algorithm is sensitive to the local context, it satisfies human vision requirements more than conventional methods which rely on minimizing the mean square error.< >
This paper proposes a network architecture for invariant object recognition and rotation angle estimation. The model has four stages. The first stage is a network implementation of the Radon transform, which is used t...
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This paper proposes a network architecture for invariant object recognition and rotation angle estimation. The model has four stages. The first stage is a network implementation of the Radon transform, which is used to separate rotation and translation of the input object into translations on the /spl theta/-axis and s-axis, respectively. The second stage provides translation-invariant features using correlations and a maximum-pick-up network. The outputs of this stage are used both for object recognition and rotation angle estimation. The recognition stage employs a Rapid transform for rotation invariance and a multilayer feedforward network for recognition. The estimation stage consists of several feature templates obtained from exemplars. The best fit among all templates determines the rotation angle of the input object. The overall complexity of the weight connection of the network is O(N/sup 3/) for N/spl times/N pixels, which is lower than that of several established networks. We test our network using a set of printed numerical characters.
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FORD, GEESTES, RRCHEN, HCIPIC
Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing University of California Davis Davis 95616 CA United States
In imageprocessing operations involving changes in the sampling grid, including increases or decreases in resolution, care must be taken to preserve image structure. Structure includes regions of high contrast, such ...
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This paper proposes a new connectionist model for invariant object recognition. The model has four stages. The first stage obtains projections from the input image plane. The projection features can separate rotation ...
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