Background: In the process of volumetric evaluation of the damaged region in the human brain from a MR image it is very crucial to remove the non-brain tissue from the acquainted image. At times there is a chance duri...
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Background: In the process of volumetric evaluation of the damaged region in the human brain from a MR image it is very crucial to remove the non-brain tissue from the acquainted image. At times there is a chance during the process of assessing the damaged region through automated approaches might misinterpret the non-brain tissues like skull as damaged region due to their similar in-tensity features. So in order to address such issues all such artefacts. Objective: In order to mechanize an efficient approach that can effectively address the issue of remov-ing the non-brain tissues with minimal computation effort and precise accuracy. It is very essential to keep the computational time to be as minimal as possible because the processes of skull removal is used in conjunction with segmentation algorithm, and if the skull scrapping approach has consumed a considerable amount of time, they it would impact the over segmentation and volume assessment time which is not advisable. Method: In this paper a completely novel approach named Structural Augmentation has been proposed, that could efficiently remove the skull region from the MR image. The proposed approach has several phases that include applying of Hybridized Contra harmonic and Otsu AWBF filtering for noise removal and threshold approximation through Otsu based approach and constructing the bit map based on the approximated threshold. Morphological close operation followed by morphological open operation with reference to a structural element through the generated bitmap image. Results: The experiment are carry forwarded on a real time MR images of the patient at KGH hospital, Visakhapatnam and the images from open sources repositories like fmri. The experiment is conducted on the images of varied noise variance that are tabulated in the results and implementation section of the article. The accuracy of the proposed method has been evaluated through metrics like Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity through true pos
Interoperability is a fundamental challenge for longenvisioned blockchain applications. A mainstream approach is using Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to support interoperable off-chain execution. However, this in...
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Blood vessel segmentation plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases. The performance of supervised deep-learning-based segmentation methods is dependent on the training labels, which b...
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Blood vessel segmentation plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases. The performance of supervised deep-learning-based segmentation methods is dependent on the training labels, which brings a great burden to surgeons. Semi-supervised methods can solve the problem partly, but recently proposed algorithms hardly consider the complexity of the tree structures in retinal images, especially fine peripheral bronchi. Thus, we propose a novel edge-consistency based semi-supervised retinal vessel segmentation algorithm, named Semi-ECNet. Specifically, Semi-ECNet first generates two kinds of vessel maps, including an edge constraint map and a pixel-wise probability map in the model-prediction stage. Then for the loss-consistency stage, we adopt the Sobel operator and propose a novel loss strategy for the consistency constraints among these maps and the ground truth. Extensive experiments on a publicly available dataset demonstrate that our Semi-ECNet effectively leverages unlabeled data, and outperforms other state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods by introducing this innovative edge-consistency strategy.
In this paper, we consider the analysis and control of continuous-time nonlinear systems to ensure universal shifted stability and performance, i.e., stability and performance w.r.t. each forced equilibrium point of t...
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From smart homes to industrial automation, the efficiency and connectivity of many applications have been greatly improved by the fast expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical systems (CPS). Sophis...
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With the benefit of deep learning techniques, recent researches have made significant progress in image compression artifacts reduction. Despite their improved performances, prevailing methods only focus on learning a...
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This paper introduces an enhanced version of the Capuchin Search Algorithm (CapSA) called ECapSA. CapSA draws inspiration from the collective intelligence of Capuchin monkeys and has shown success in solving real-worl...
This paper introduces an enhanced version of the Capuchin Search Algorithm (CapSA) called ECapSA. CapSA draws inspiration from the collective intelligence of Capuchin monkeys and has shown success in solving real-world problems. However, it may encounter challenges handling complex optimization tasks, such as premature convergence or being trapped in local optima. ECapSA employs a local escaping mechanism operating the abandonment limit concept to exploit potential solutions and introduce diversification trends. Additionally, the ECapSA algorithm is improved by integrating the principles of the cooperative island model, resulting in the iECapSA. This modification enables better management of population diversity and a more optimal balance between exploration and exploitation. The efficiency of iECapSA is validated through a series of experiments, including the IEEE-CEC2014 benchmark functions and training the feedforward neural network (FNN) on seven biomedical datasets. The performance of iECapSA is compared to other metaheuristic techniques, namely differential evolution (DE), sine cosine algorithm (SCA), and whale optimization algorithm (WOA). The results of the comparative study demonstrate that iECapSA is a strong contender and surpasses other training algorithms in most datasets, particularly in terms of its ability to avoid local optima and its improved convergence speed.
Temporal Interaction Graphs (TIGs) are widely utilized to represent real-world systems, such as e-commerce and social networks. To facilitate representation learning on TIGs, researchers have proposed a series of TIG ...
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Temporal Interaction Graphs (TIGs) are widely utilized to represent real-world systems, such as e-commerce and social networks. To facilitate representation learning on TIGs, researchers have proposed a series of TIG models. However, these models are still facing two tough gaps between the pre-training and downstream predictions in their "pre-train, predict" training paradigm. First, there is a temporal gap that exhibits limited accommodation ability to their timely predictions. This shortcoming severely undermines their applicability in distant future predictions on the dynamically evolving TIG data. Second, there is a semantic gap due to the lack of versatility in these pre-trained models to effectively cater to diverse downstream tasks. This hinders their practical applications, as they struggle to align with their learning and prediction capabilities across various application scenarios. Recently, the "pre-train, prompt" paradigm has emerged as a lightweight mechanism for model generalization. Therefore, applying this paradigm within TIGs is a potential solution to solve the aforementioned challenges. However, the adaptation of this paradigm to TIGs is not straightforward. The prevalent application of prompting in static graph contexts falls short in temporal settings due to a lack of consideration for time-sensitive dynamics and a deficiency in expressive power. To address this issue, we introduce Temporal Interaction Graph Prompting (TIGPrompt), a versatile framework that seamlessly integrates with existing TIG models, bridging both the temporal and semantic gaps mentioned above. In detail, we propose a temporal prompt generator to offer temporally-aware prompts for different tasks. These prompts stand out for their minimalistic design, relying solely on the fine-tuning of the prompt generator with very little supervision data, which is extremely efficient. To cater to varying computational resource demands, we propose an extended "pre-train, prompt-based fine
In this article, a microgrid model with the possibility of adding renewable energy sources is considered. The considered grid is radial and in it the dues of the lines between the individual nodes have been added and ...
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Variable-bitrate video streaming is ubiquitous in video surveillance and CCTV, enabling high-quality video streaming while conserving network bandwidth. However, as the name suggests, variable-bitrate IP cameras can g...
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