Examines progressive lossy-to-lossless compression of medical volumetric data using 3D integer wavelet packet transforms and set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT). To achieve good lossy coding performance, we...
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Examines progressive lossy-to-lossless compression of medical volumetric data using 3D integer wavelet packet transforms and set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT). To achieve good lossy coding performance, we describe a 3D integer wavelet packet transform that allows implicit bit shifting of wavelet coefficients to approximate a 3D unitary transformation. We also address context modeling for efficient entropy coding within the SPIHT framework. Both lossy and lossless coding performances are better than those reported by A. Bilgin et al. (1998).
Anisotropic diffusion is an image enhancement method. It is a nonlinear process which removes noise and irrelevant details while preserving the edges, i.e. it "extracts" the essential visual information. The...
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Anisotropic diffusion is an image enhancement method. It is a nonlinear process which removes noise and irrelevant details while preserving the edges, i.e. it "extracts" the essential visual information. The paper proposes a useful application of anisotropic diffusion in image data compression. We argue that for high compression an anisotropic diffusion preprocessing results in better quality of the decoded image.
We propose an adjusted digital filtering method to overcome the Nyquist limitation of the iterative algorithm used to eliminate the twin image and demonstrate its advantages over existing algorithms. We also have appl...
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We propose an adjusted digital filtering method to overcome the Nyquist limitation of the iterative algorithm used to eliminate the twin image and demonstrate its advantages over existing algorithms. We also have applied and tested an electronic multiplexing method to eliminate the twin image noise in optical scanning holography.
Software complexity metrics have been shown to be very closely related to the distribution of faults in software. This paper focuses on identification of fault-prone software modules based on discriminant analysis and...
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(纸本)0818672250
Software complexity metrics have been shown to be very closely related to the distribution of faults in software. This paper focuses on identification of fault-prone software modules based on discriminant analysis and classification for software that are developed by CHILL language. We define software complexity metrics for CHILL language. The technique is successful in classifying software modules with relatively low error rare. This procedure shows very useful method in the detection of software modules in the fault of programs with high potential.
A method is shown using the CNN chip-set hardware architecture for the implementation of a high-speed, low bit-rate image coding system. A simple and fast algorithm is introduced to generate basis functions of 2 dimen...
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A method is shown using the CNN chip-set hardware architecture for the implementation of a high-speed, low bit-rate image coding system. A simple and fast algorithm is introduced to generate basis functions of 2 dimensional (2D) orthogonal transformations. Using the 2D basis functions of the Hadamard or Cosine functions, the transformation coefficients of the basic block of the image are measured by the CNN. Meanwhile, the CNN can produce the inverse transformation of the measured coefficients and the actual distortion-rate can be computed. If a required distortion-rate is reached, the coding process could be stopped (the use of even more coefficients would increase bit-rate needlessly). Effects of noise and VLSI computing accuracy are also considered to optimise the architecture. We also give a short description of how to join the transform coding method and the object-oriented image model.
Two one-day workshops were held in 1997 that brought together a group of 38 experts from nine countries to address several aspects of the issues surrounding multimodality medical image registration. The first workshop...
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Two one-day workshops were held in 1997 that brought together a group of 38 experts from nine countries to address several aspects of the issues surrounding multimodality medical image registration. The first workshop produced an agenda that defined the significant problems and assigned them to subgroups for study. The second reviewed the results, limited the scope of the problem and proposed an action plan that focused initially on the development of standard data sets. This paper discusses the nature of the problem (why it's interesting and why it's difficult) and the consensus plan that is emerging.
Presents work on automatic inter-modality image registration based on the extraction of the most well-known image feature-edges. While many of the current techniques use the corresponding surface feature (skin surface...
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Presents work on automatic inter-modality image registration based on the extraction of the most well-known image feature-edges. While many of the current techniques use the corresponding surface feature (skin surface and brain surface in particular) for image registration, an edge feature can include ail of those surfaces as well as certain tissue structures. The edge feature may provide as well the simplicity and possibility for surface and contour information to be further constructed. In contrast to most of the modern surface registration algorithms which rely on either manual or automatic segmentation of the corresponding surface, the authors' 3-D edge registration algorithm requires no further segmentation for the registration of CT and MR brain images. The registration accuracy is evaluated through a fiducial "gold-standard" on 6 pairs of CT and MR (T1, T2, and PD) images. The preliminary results are comparable to those obtained by other registration techniques.
Blood vessels overlying one another at distinct depths (and hence appearing to intersect) in the conjunctiva of the eye can be distinguished reliably from those that in fact do branch within the same depth, using only...
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Blood vessels overlying one another at distinct depths (and hence appearing to intersect) in the conjunctiva of the eye can be distinguished reliably from those that in fact do branch within the same depth, using only the information contained in a single photograph of the conjunctiva. That conclusion arises from extension of earlier work that qualitatively inferred relative depth of vessels. The current research was motivated by the need to quantify such inferences in terms of their sensitivities and robustness. Features extracted from an image are shown to be useful in that effort; their utility is verified with phantoms that mimic the behavior of the conjunctiva and the backing sclera. Because no special preparations are needed, the method works as well on archived images as on newly-acquired ones, and thus can be used in retrospective studies of images of the eye and other diffuse media.
Telecommunication systems are becoming more dependent on software-intensive products and systems. Poor software quality can threaten safety, risk a company's business, or alienate potential customers. It is no lon...
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(纸本)0818684216
Telecommunication systems are becoming more dependent on software-intensive products and systems. Poor software quality can threaten safety, risk a company's business, or alienate potential customers. It is no longer acceptable to ignore software quality until just prior to a product's release. This study identifies troublesome modules in a large telecommunication system. For this, we propose the software metrics of the CHILL language, which are used to develop the telecommunication software. We present the identification method of fault-prone software modules of telecommunication software using neural networks. We investigate the relationship between the proposed metrics and the change request frequency of software modules which are found during the development phase. Using the neural network model, we classify software modules as either fault prone or not fault prone based on the proposed metrics. We obtained the experimental results that the total fitting rate of 52 testing data sets was 96.2%. Therefore, for newly added software modules, we can predict whether the software module is fault prone or not.
Printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefore they are well suited to the cellular neural networks (CNN) paradigm. The wire break, the wire and isolation wi...
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Printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefore they are well suited to the cellular neural networks (CNN) paradigm. The wire break, the wire and isolation width violation and an "H" type short circuits detector analogic algorithms were tested on a 20*22 CNN Universal Machine (CNNUM) chip working in the CNN Chip Prototyping System (CCPS) and on the CNN Engine Board (CNNEB), and the results were compared to the commercially available inspection systems.
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