Interactive object segmentation is widely used for extracting any user-interested objects from natural images. A common problem with many interactive segmentation approaches is that the object segmentation quality is ...
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Interactive object segmentation is widely used for extracting any user-interested objects from natural images. A common problem with many interactive segmentation approaches is that the object segmentation quality is degraded due to inaccurate object/background seeds provided by the user. This paper proposes an iterative adjustable graph cut to efficiently solve this problem. First, object/background seeds are initialized based on the object segmentation result obtained with the user-specified scribbles as the interactive input. Then, an iterative seed adjustment scheme is exploited to correct inaccurate seeds and extract new suitable seeds via graph cut, in which the balancing weight between energy terms are adaptively updated to protect stable seeds and speedup the iteration process. Finally, suitable seeds are obtained and graph cut is used to segment the objects. Experimental results demonstrate the better segmentation performance of our approach even if user provides rather rough seeds.
This paper presents a novel wavelet transform saliency model to detect salient objects. In this model, a saliency map is generated by combining orientation feature maps obtained from wavelet transform of different sca...
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This paper presents a novel wavelet transform saliency model to detect salient objects. In this model, a saliency map is generated by combining orientation feature maps obtained from wavelet transform of different scale images derived from the same image. Then, the order map of a saliency map is obtained by using Fourier descriptor, which could be used as a guidance to process the most important objects. Experiments indicate that this saliency model is robust to noise and superior to other saliency models in the literature.
A support vector regression(SVR) based color image restoration algorithm is *** test color images are firstly mapped into the YUV color space,and then SVR is applied to build up a theoretical model between the degrade...
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A support vector regression(SVR) based color image restoration algorithm is *** test color images are firstly mapped into the YUV color space,and then SVR is applied to build up a theoretical model between the degraded images and the original *** comparisons of the proposed algorithm versus traditional filtering algorithms are *** results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than traditional filtering algorithms and has less computation time than iterative blind deconvolution algorithm.
Theories in fragmentation have proved that the statistics of image gradient magnitude followed a Weibull distribution, with β (scale) and γ (shape) as free parameters, which are demonstrated to be strongly correlate...
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Stroke and heart attack, which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named asatherosclerosis, would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality. And the carotid artery of intima-media ...
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Stroke and heart attack, which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named asatherosclerosis, would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality. And the carotid artery of intima-media thickness (IMT) is a key indicator to the disease. With the development of computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) technology, Ultrasound imaging, being real-time, economic, reliable, safe, and now seems to become a standard in vascular assessment methodology especially for the measurement of IMT. This review is an attempt to discuss the clinical relevance of measurements in clinical practice at first, and then followed by the challenges that one has to face when approaching the segmentation of ultrasound images. Secondly, the paper is presentation of common used methods for the IMT segmentation and measurement. An overview of summary and future perspectives is given in conclusion finally.
The analysis of the carotid artery wall is of paramount importance in clinical practice. Especially, the intima-media thickness is a risk index for some of the most severe acute cerebrovascular pathologies, hence, an ...
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The analysis of the carotid artery wall is of paramount importance in clinical practice. Especially, the intima-media thickness is a risk index for some of the most severe acute cerebrovascular pathologies, hence, an accurate segmentation of the different layers of the carotid artery is needed. IMT is usually manually measured on longitudinal B-mode ultrasound images. In the past ten years, many computer-based techniques for intima-media thickness measurement have been proposed to overcome the limits of manual segmentation, but almost all of them require a certain degree of user interaction. In this paper we proposed a novel approach for the completely user-independent segmentation of the common carotid artery wall. Our algorithm is designed for the extraction of the intima and media layers of the distal carotid wall in ultrasound images. It is based on integrated approach consisting of common carotid artery region identification, contour initialization with threshold segmentation, intima-lumen segmentation with Snake, and media-adventitia segmentation with GVF-Snake that enables the automated tracing of the carotid walls. The acoustic impedance's difference is employed to locate common carotid artery region. Finally, the characterization of the algorithm in terms of segmentation error was evaluated with a set of 40 common carotid artery ultrasound images and compared to the segmentation traced by a trained operator. Experiments showed that a mean error lower than 1.3 pixel both on the intima and media layers was obtained, which is comparable to that obtained by means of operator dependent techniques.
With the unprecedented growing of city economy and the crying need for public transportation, the ease of traffic related problems such as traffic jams has been a hard nut to crack everywhere. In this paper, a new met...
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Surface integrity of 3D medical imaging is crucial for surgery simulation or virtual diagnoses. However, undesirable holes often exist due to external damage on bodies or accessibility limitation on scanners. To bridg...
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Neighborhood Preserving Embedding (NPE) is a subspace learning algorithm, which has the ability of preserving local neighborhood structure on the data manifold. Though NPE has been applied in many domains of pattern r...
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A new DOA (direction of arrival) estimator based on MIMO sonar system is proposed to estimate the DOA of long distance targets. First, wideband orthogonal signals are sent out by transmitting sensors and the output of...
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