Colorectal cancer includes cancer of the colon, rectum, anus and appendix. Since it is largely preventable, it is extremely important to detect and treat the colorectal cancer in the earliest stage. Virtual colonoscop...
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Colorectal cancer includes cancer of the colon, rectum, anus and appendix. Since it is largely preventable, it is extremely important to detect and treat the colorectal cancer in the earliest stage. Virtual colonoscopy is an emerging screening technique for colon cancer. One component of virtual colonoscopy, image pre-processing, is important for colonic polyp detection/ diagnosis, feature extraction and classification. This paper introduces a general variational approach based framework for a computer aided diagnosis system for colorectal cancer. It includes techniques for 3D colon segmentation, 3D colon object reconstruction by iso-surface generation, and 3D centerline extraction. The proposed framework has been validated on 22 real CT colonography datasets.
This paper introduces an adaptive level set method for 3D segmentation of colon tissue in CT colonography filled with air and opacified fluid. First, most of the opacified liquid is removed by a threshold value. The c...
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(纸本)9781424439317
This paper introduces an adaptive level set method for 3D segmentation of colon tissue in CT colonography filled with air and opacified fluid. First, most of the opacified liquid is removed by a threshold value. The closed contours are propagated toward the desired 3D region boundaries through the iterative evolution of the adaptive level sets function. The proposed method has been tested on 22 real CT colonography datasets with various pathologies, and the segmentation accuracy has achieved 98.40%.
The design of DNA sequences is one of the most practical and important research topics in DNA computing. We adopt taboo search algorithm and improve the method for the systematic design of equal-length DNA sequences, ...
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The design of DNA sequences is one of the most practical and important research topics in DNA computing. We adopt taboo search algorithm and improve the method for the systematic design of equal-length DNA sequences, which can satisfy certain combinatorial and thermodynamic constraints. Using taboo search algorithm, our method can avoid trapping into local optimization and can nd a set of good DNA sequences satisfying required constraints.
Acute rejection is the most common reason of graft failure after kidney transplantation, and early detection is crucial to survive the transplanted kidney function. Automatic classification of normal and acute rejecti...
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Acute rejection is the most common reason of graft failure after kidney transplantation, and early detection is crucial to survive the transplanted kidney function. Automatic classification of normal and acute rejection transplants from dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCEMRI), is of great importance. Kidney segmentation is the first step for such classification. The image intensity inside the kidney is used as an indication of failure/success. Differentiating between different cases cases is implemented by comparing subsequential kidney scans signals. So, this process is mainly dependent on segmentation. This paper introduces a new shape-based segmentation approach based on level sets. Training shapes are collected from different real data sets to represent the shape variations. Signed distance functions are used to represent these shapes. The methodology incorporates image and shape prior information in a variational framework. The shape registration is considered the backbone of the approach where more general transformations can be used to handle the process. We introduce a novel shape dissimilarity measure that enables the use of different (inhomogeneous) scales. The approach gives successful results compared with other techniques restricted to transformations with homogeneous scales. Results for segmenting kidney images will be illustrated and compared with other approaches to show the efficiency of the proposed technique.
In this paper, we introduce a novel global image registration approach using vector distance functions (VDF's). Edges of the source and target objects are used to represent their images. The VDF's of these edg...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1424406714
In this paper, we introduce a novel global image registration approach using vector distance functions (VDF's). Edges of the source and target objects are used to represent their images. The VDF's of these edges are calculated as an implicit representation of these boundaries. An energy is formulated to measure the differences of these vectors. A variational formulation is considered to estimate the transformation parameters. Promising results in 2D and 3D are demonstrated to show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
Rayleigh fading channel is the foundation of mobile radio channel modeling. This paper summarizes four classes of the simulation models for Rayleigh fading channels based on sum-of-sinusoids by a uniform expression, a...
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(纸本)9781424410095
Rayleigh fading channel is the foundation of mobile radio channel modeling. This paper summarizes four classes of the simulation models for Rayleigh fading channels based on sum-of-sinusoids by a uniform expression, according to the different definition of the assumed parameters in the expression. Among these parameters, the initial phases should be set as random variables and we conclude three cases of phases' definition. With the help of these discussions, it can be seen that the ergodicity and the stationary can not exist simultaneously when the number of multipath wave is finite. Based on this conclusion, some conditions on an effective channel model are proposed, and these conclusions are useful to model the new effective mobile radio channels.
An efficient algorithm using maximum a posteriori-Markov random field (MAP-MRF) based approach for recovering a high-resolution image from multiple sub-pixel shifted low-resolution images is proposed. The algorithm ca...
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An efficient algorithm using maximum a posteriori-Markov random field (MAP-MRF) based approach for recovering a high-resolution image from multiple sub-pixel shifted low-resolution images is proposed. The algorithm can be used for super-resolution of both space-invariant and space-variant blurred images. We prove an important theorem that the posterior is also Markov and derive the exact posterior neighborhood structure in the presence of warping, blurring and down-sampling operations. The posterior being Markov enables us to perform all matrix operations as local image domain operations thereby resulting in a considerable speedup. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method
Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error d...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769525210
Shape from focus (SFF) method determines the degree of focus in a sequence of observations to estimate the shape of a 3-D object. Existing SFF algorithms use an ad hoc interpolation strategy to account for the error due to the finite step-size by which the translational table is moved while capturing the images. We propose an improved SFF method that uses relative defocus blur derived from actual image data to arrive at the final estimates of the shape of the object. A space-variant image restoration scheme is also proposed to obtain a focused image of the 3-D object. The shape estimates as well as the quality of the restored image using the proposed method are superior to that of traditional SFF
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