Generalized cylinders (GCs) are a popular representational tool in computervision. In medical imaging, the curved axis GC is particularly applicable to a number of elongated physical structures such as vasculature, b...
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Generalized cylinders (GCs) are a popular representational tool in computervision. In medical imaging, the curved axis GC is particularly applicable to a number of elongated physical structures such as vasculature, bone and bronchi. In many of these instances, it is necessary to recover curved-axis GCs with arbitrary cross-sections. It is also vital that these structures, once recovered, can be analyzed and visualized with off-the-shelf algorithms and software packages. Such tools are usually designed to operate on the domain of polynomial or rational surfaces. Unfortunately most extant, suitably versatile GC representations do not admit rational parameterizations. We develop an entirely rational B-spline representation for generalized cylinders with curved axes and arbitrary cross-section functions. We demonstrate how our representation can be used as a deformable model by extracting a rational GC from pre-segmented spinal data using a discrete dynamic surface fit.
A method is developed for the measurement of short-range visual motion in image sequences, making use of the motion of image features such as edges and points. Each feature generates a Gaussian activation profile in a...
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A method is developed for the measurement of short-range visual motion in image sequences, making use of the motion of image features such as edges and points. Each feature generates a Gaussian activation profile in a spatiotemporal neighborhood of specified scale around the feature itself; this profile is then convected with motion of the feature. The authors show that image velocity estimates can be obtained from such dynamic activation profiles using a modification of familiar gradient techniques. The resulting estimators can be formulated in terms of simple ratios of spatiotemporal filters (i.e. receptive fields) convolved with image feature maps. A family of activation profiles of varying scale must be utilized to cover a range of possible image velocities. They suggest a characteristic speed normalization of the estimate obtained from each filter in order to decide which estimate is to be accepted. They formulate the velocity estimators for dynamic edges in 1-D and 2-D image sequences, as well as that for dynamic feature points in 2-D image sequences.< >
An automated system for detecting Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), an inheritable disorder of human connective tissue, is described. The approach is one of texture analysis, founded on standard statistical recognition of...
An automated system for detecting Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), an inheritable disorder of human connective tissue, is described. The approach is one of texture analysis, founded on standard statistical recognition of co-occurrence-based texture descriptors. Our contribution is to show that texture descriptors derived from gray-level co-occurrence matrices can be used in conjunction with descriptors derived from generalized co-occurrence matrices of local image features to increase performance. In fact, for the OI problem, our system demonstrates a level of performance which is significantly better than that of medical specialists.
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FERRIE, FPLEVINE, MDZUCKER, SWComputer Vision and Graphics Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering McGill University Montreal P.Q. Canada SENIOR MEMBER
IEEE Computer Vision and Graphics Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering McGill University Montreal P.Q. Canada MEMBER
IEEE Computer Vision and Graphics Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering McGill University Montreal P.Q. Canada
This paper presents a model of motion suitable for cell tracking. It includes a representation for cell dynamics enabling it to maintain a correspondence between successive images of cells undergoing morphological cha...
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This paper presents a model of motion suitable for cell tracking. It includes a representation for cell dynamics enabling it to maintain a correspondence between successive images of cells undergoing morphological changes. This model is based on a minimization problem whose computational solution is similar in form to a Newton-Rhapson iteration. The model is supported by experimental results from an actual tracking problem.
Frame-to-frame coherence is the highly structured relationship that exists between successive frames of certain animation sequences. From the point of view of the hidden surface computation, this implies that parts of...
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ZUCKER, SWLECLERC, YGMOHAMMED, JLMEMBER
IEEE Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Vision and Graphics Laboratory McGill University Montreal P.Q. Canada
Relaxation labeling processes are a class of iterative algorithms for using contextual information to reduce local ambiguities. This paper introduces a new perspective toward relaxation-that of considering it as a pro...
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Relaxation labeling processes are a class of iterative algorithms for using contextual information to reduce local ambiguities. This paper introduces a new perspective toward relaxation-that of considering it as a process for reordering labels attached to nodes in a graph. This new perspective is used to establish the formal equivalence between relaxation and another widely used algorithm, local maxima selection. The equivalence specifies conditions under which a family of cooperative relaxation algorithms, which generalize the well-known ones, decompose into purely local ones. Since these conditions are also sufficient for guaranteeing the convergence of relaxation processes, they serve as stopping criteria. We feel that equivalences such as these are necessary for the proper application of relaxation and maxima selection in complex speech and vision understanding systems.
Frame-to-frame coherence is the highly structured relationship that exists between successive frames of certain animation sequences. From the point of view of the hidden surface computation, this implies that parts of...
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Modern scanning techniques, such as computed tomography, have begun to produce true three-dimensional imagery of internal structures. The first stage in finding structure in these images, like that for standard two-di...
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Co-occurrence matrices are a popular representation for the texture in images. They contain a count of the number of times that a given feature (e.g., a given gray level) occurs in a particular spatial relation to ano...
Co-occurrence matrices are a popular representation for the texture in images. They contain a count of the number of times that a given feature (e.g., a given gray level) occurs in a particular spatial relation to another given feature. However, because of the large number of spatial relations that are possible within an image, heuristic or interactive techniques have usually been employed to select the relation to use for each problem. In this paper we present a statistical approach to finding those spatial (or other) relations that best capture the structure of textures when the co-occurrence matrix representation is used. These matrices should thus be well suited for discriminations that are structurally based.
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