The past few years have witnessed an explosion in the availability of data from multiple sources and modalities. For example, millions of cameras have been installed in buildings, streets, airports, and cities around ...
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The past few years have witnessed an explosion in the availability of data from multiple sources and modalities. For example, millions of cameras have been installed in buildings, streets, airports, and cities around the world. This has generated extraordinary advances on how to acquire, compress, store, transmit, and process massive amounts of complex high-dimensional data.
A hybrid framework of probabilistic atlas and statistical shape and appearance model (SSAM) is proposed to achieve 3D prostate segmentation. An initial 3D segmentation of the prostate is obtained by registering the pr...
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A hybrid framework of probabilistic atlas and statistical shape and appearance model (SSAM) is proposed to achieve 3D prostate segmentation. An initial 3D segmentation of the prostate is obtained by registering the probabilistic atlas to the test dataset with deformable Demons registration. The initial results obtained are used to initialize multiple SSAMs corresponding to the apex, central and base regions of the prostate gland to incorporate local variabilities. Multiple mean parametric models of shape and appearance are derived from principal component analysis of prior shape and intensity information of the prostate from the training data. The parameters are then modified with the prior knowledge of the optimization space to achieve 2D segmentation. The 2D labels are registered to the 3D labels generated using probabilistic atlas to constrain the pose variation and generate valid 3D shapes. The proposed method achieves a mean Dice similarity coefficient value of 0.89±0.11 and mean Hausdorff distance of 3.05±2.25 mm when validated with 15 prostate volumes of a public dataset in a leave-one-out validation framework.
As a great part of the industrial inspection problems require specific, expensive, and highly complex solutions, there is the need to build flexible systems capable to be easily adapted to different models of a part. ...
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This paper reports our experience in developing a team-based project activity to promote engineering programs among secondary school students. The aim of the activity is to increase the interest of students for scienc...
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Imaging artifacts in Transrectal Ultrasound TRUS) images and inter-patient variations in prostate shape and size challenge computer-aided automatic or semi-automatic segmentation of the prostate. In this paper, we pro...
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(纸本)9781424441198
Imaging artifacts in Transrectal Ultrasound TRUS) images and inter-patient variations in prostate shape and size challenge computer-aided automatic or semi-automatic segmentation of the prostate. In this paper, we propose to use multiple mean parametric models derived from principal component analysis (PCA) of shape and posterior probability information to segment the prostate. In contrast to traditional statistical models of shape and intensity priors, we use posterior probability of the prostate region determined from random forest classification to build, initialize and propagate our model. Multiple mean models derived from spectral clustering of combined shape and appearance parameters ensure improvement in segmentation accuracies. The proposed method achieves mean Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) value of 0.96±0.01, with a mean segmentation time of 0.67±0.02 seconds when validated with 46 images from 23 datasets in a leave-one-patient-out validation framework.
This paper presents a novel method to identify the 2D axial Magnetic Resonance (MR) slice from a pre-acquired MR prostate volume that closely corresponds to the 2D axial Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) slice obtained du...
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This paper presents a novel method to identify the 2D axial Magnetic Resonance (MR) slice from a pre-acquired MR prostate volume that closely corresponds to the 2D axial Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) slice obtained during prostate biopsy. The shape-context representations of the segmented prostate contours in both the imaging modalities are used to establish point correspondences using Bhattacharyya distance. Thereafter, Chi-square distance is used to find the prostate shape similarities between the MR slices and the TRUS slice. Normalized mutual information and correlation coefficient between the TRUS and MR slices are computed to find the information theoretic similarities between the TRUS-MR slices. The maximum of the weighted likelihood function of the afore-mentioned statistical similarity measures finally yields the MR slice that closely resembles the TRUS slice acquired during the biopsy procedure. The method is evaluated for 20 patient datasets and close matches with the ground truth are obtained for 16 cases.
We present a robust radiometric calibration method that capitalizes on the transform invariant low-rank structure of sensor irradiances recorded from a static scene with different exposure times. We formulate the radi...
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Many robotics tasks require autonomous exploration by teams of robots. In difficult or large environments, communication drop-out complicates this task. Several approaches exist that aim to keep the team connected, bu...
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(纸本)9780980740424
Many robotics tasks require autonomous exploration by teams of robots. In difficult or large environments, communication drop-out complicates this task. Several approaches exist that aim to keep the team connected, but even so there is an inherent limit to the range that can be explored. In this paper we describe and examine Role-Based Exploration, an approach that uses mobile relays to ferry information back and forth within the team, and compare it to methods that do not. There are significant advantages in the use of such relays, such as improved coordination and responsiveness, and adaptability to unexpected communication dropout. The approaches are implemented and validated on a team of real robots.
Image mosaicing methods have become very popular thanks to the rapid progress in obtaining optical data using robotic platforms. Global alignment which is known as finding best image registration parameters taking int...
Image mosaicing methods have become very popular thanks to the rapid progress in obtaining optical data using robotic platforms. Global alignment which is known as finding best image registration parameters taking into account overlapping image pairs is one of the essential steps of image mosaicing process in order to obtain seamless mosaics. Global alignment usually employs non-linear optimisation methods to minimise the error metric defined over correspondences detected between overlapping image pairs. In this paper, we propose a method that uses graph theory principles to reduce the total number of overlapping image pairs used in the global alignment process without disturbing the final mosaic quality. This reduction allows for obtaining image mosaics with reduced computational cost and time. The method is validated through two experiments which involve challenging underwater datasets.
This paper presents a novel method to identify the 2D axial Magnetic Resonance (MR) slice from a pre-acquired MR prostate volume that closely corresponds to the 2D axial Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) slice obtained du...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424441198
This paper presents a novel method to identify the 2D axial Magnetic Resonance (MR) slice from a pre-acquired MR prostate volume that closely corresponds to the 2D axial Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) slice obtained during prostate biopsy. The method combines both shape and image intensity information. The segmented prostate contours in both the imaging modalities are described by shape-context representations and matched using the Chi-square distance. Normalized mutual information and correlation coefficient between the TRUS and MR slices are computed to find image similarities. Finally, the joint probability values comprising shape and image similarities are used in a rule-based framework to provide the MR slice that closely resembles the TRUS slice acquired during the biopsy procedure. The method is evaluated for 20 patient datasets, of which 18 results match at least one of the two clinical expert choices.
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