This paper gives an introduction to the Bayesian networks for the exploration of implementing a Bayesian belief network for an automated breast cancer detection support tool. It is intuitive that Bayesian networks can...
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This paper gives an introduction to the Bayesian networks for the exploration of implementing a Bayesian belief network for an automated breast cancer detection support tool. It is intuitive that Bayesian networks can be employed as one viable option for computer-aided detection by representing the relationships between diagnoses, physical findings, laboratory test results, and imaging study findings. This paper brings important entities such as Radiologists, image Processing Scientists, Data Base Specialists and Applied Mathematicians on a common platform. A brief background concerning causal networks, probability theory and Bayesian networks is given. Available computational tools and platforms are described. Steps towards building a Bayesian Belief Network Implementation are introduced.
We investigated biases in time-activity measurements relevant for quantitative dynamic SPECT/CT imaging when slow-rotating dual-headed gamma camera systems in combination with OSEM-3D (Flash3D) with scatter and attenu...
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We investigated biases in time-activity measurements relevant for quantitative dynamic SPECT/CT imaging when slow-rotating dual-headed gamma camera systems in combination with OSEM-3D (Flash3D) with scatter and attenuation correction are used. The goal was to assess the potential and also the limitations of clinical dual-headed SPECT/CT systems for the quantification of dynamic processes with focus on a renal time-activity function. We used simulations of a SPECT/CT system to estimate absolute quantitation errors in time-activity measurements. We systematically assessed dependencies of these errors on signal to noise ratio and sampling frequencies using a MAG-3 renal time-activity profile. In addition, a physical phantom was developed to measure dynamic processes on a clinical SPECT/CT system. The phantom consisted of a cylindrical chamber placed in a large cylinder phantom and connected to a programmable peristaltic pump. SPECT/CT acquisitions were performed by varying the rotation times of the SPECT system. Absolute activity concentrations were calculated by cross calibrating the imaging system with a well counter and using correction factors derived from simulations. Results from simulations show no significant differences in emission recovery coefficients within the range of 7.5 to 120 seconds per rotation. Phantom experiments using corrections from cross calibration and simulation show average estimation errors of -0.9% and -4.5% for 10 seconds and 60 seconds per rotation, respectively. Conclusion: We showed that quantitation of a renal dynamic process in phantoms using multiple time-contiguous SPECT acquisitions with 3D iterative reconstruction is possible with an accuracy of 4.5%.
When applying formal majority voter in TMR (triple modular redundancy) fault tolerance system with two error injections, there is a problem that formal majority voter has a low rate of output. To solve this problem, w...
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When applying formal majority voter in TMR (triple modular redundancy) fault tolerance system with two error injections, there is a problem that formal majority voter has a low rate of output. To solve this problem, we propose a modified majority voting model with special rules. In the situation of error injection, test result shows that compared with formal majority voter, modified majority voter has a higher rate of correct decision and a lower ratio of benign signals.
The sensitivity of diffuse optical tomography (DOT) imaging exponentially decreases with the increase of photon penetration depth, which leads to a poor depth resolution for DOT. In this letter, an exponential adjus...
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The sensitivity of diffuse optical tomography (DOT) imaging exponentially decreases with the increase of photon penetration depth, which leads to a poor depth resolution for DOT. In this letter, an exponential adjustment method (EAM) based on maximum singular value of layered sensitivity is proposed. Optimal depth resolution can be achieved by compensating the reduced sensitivity in the deep medium. Simulations are performed using a semi-infinite model and the simulation results show that the EAM method can substantially improve the depth resolution of deeply embedded objects in the medium. Consequently, the image quality and the reconstruction accuracy for these objects have been largely improved.
In this article, a novel robust image watermarking scheme is presented to resist rotation, scaling, and translation (RST). Initially, the original image is scale normalized, and the feature points are then extracted...
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In this article, a novel robust image watermarking scheme is presented to resist rotation, scaling, and translation (RST). Initially, the original image is scale normalized, and the feature points are then extracted. Furthermore, the locally most stable feature points are used to generate several nonoverlapped circular regions. These regions are then rotation normalized to generate the invariant regions. Watermark embedding and extraction are implemented in the invariant regions in discrete cosine transform domain. In the decoder, the watermark can be extracted without the original image. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is robust to traditional signal processing attacks, RST attacks, as well as some combined attacks.
In this paper, we present a software-based noninvasive system to implement binocular stereo vision with the help of polarized glass or other auxiliary equipments. For any application based on OpenGL, our system can gi...
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Small storage space for photographs in formal documents is increasingly necessary in today's needs for huge amounts of data communication and storage. Traditional compression algorithms do not sufficiently utilize th...
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Small storage space for photographs in formal documents is increasingly necessary in today's needs for huge amounts of data communication and storage. Traditional compression algorithms do not sufficiently utilize the distinctness of formal photographs. That is, the object is an image of the human head, and the background is in unicolor. Therefore, the compression is of low efficiency and the image after compression is still space-consuming. This paper presents an image compression algorithm based on object segmentation for practical high-efficiency applications. To achieve high coding efficiency, shape-adaptive discrete wavelet transforms are used to transformation arbitrarily shaped objects. The areas of the human head and its background are compressed separately to reduce the coding redundancy of the background. Two methods, lossless image contour coding based on differential chain, and modified set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm of arbitrary shape, are discussed in detail. The results of experiments show that when bit per pixel (bpp)is equal to 0.078, peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of reconstructed photograph will exceed the standard of SPIHT by nearly 4dB.
This paper introduced a novel high performance algorithm and VLSI architectures for achieving bit plane coding (BPC) in word level sequential and parallel mode. The proposed BPC algorithm adopts the techniques of co...
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This paper introduced a novel high performance algorithm and VLSI architectures for achieving bit plane coding (BPC) in word level sequential and parallel mode. The proposed BPC algorithm adopts the techniques of coding pass prediction and parallel & pipeline to reduce the number of accessing memory and to increase the ability of concurrently processing of the system, where all the coefficient bits of a code block could be coded by only one scan. A new parallel bit plane architecture (PA) was proposed to achieve word-level sequential coding. Moreover, an efficient high-speed architecture (HA) was presented to achieve multi-word parallel coding. Compared to the state of the art, the proposed PA could reduce the hardware cost more efficiently, though the throughput retains one coefficient coded per clock. While the proposed HA could perform coding for 4 coefficients belonging to a stripe column at one intra-clock cycle, so that coding for an NxN code-block could be completed in approximate N2/4 intra-clock cycles. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed designs have high throughput rate with good performance in terms of speedup to cost, which can be good alternatives for low power applications.
In classification of multispectral remote sensing image, it is usually difficult to obtain higher classification accuracy if only consider image's spectral feature or texture feature alone. In this paper ,we prese...
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Analyzing notor imagery electrocardiogram (ECoG) signal is very challenging for it is hard to set up a classifier based on the labeled ECoG obtained in the first session and apply it to the unlabeled test data obtaine...
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Analyzing notor imagery electrocardiogram (ECoG) signal is very challenging for it is hard to set up a classifier based on the labeled ECoG obtained in the first session and apply it to the unlabeled test data obtained in the second session. Here we propose a new approach to analyze ECoG trails in the case of session-to-session transfer exists. In our approach, firstly, dimension reduction is performed with independent component analysis (ICA) decomposition. Secondly, ECoG trials are clustered by an unsupervised learning algorithm called affinity propagation. Primary experimental results show that the proposed approach gives the reasonable result than that using the classical K-means clustering algorithm.
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