Independent component analysis (ICA) has shown success in the separation of sources in lots of applications. However, in synthenic aperture radar (SAR) images the noise is multiplicative, so the applicability of ICA i...
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Uterine adenoma and uterine bleeding are the two most prevalent diseases in Chinese women. Many women lose their fertility from these diseases. Currently, a minimally invasive ablation system using an RF button electr...
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Uterine adenoma and uterine bleeding are the two most prevalent diseases in Chinese women. Many women lose their fertility from these diseases. Currently, a minimally invasive ablation system using an RF button electrode is being used in Chinese hospitals to destroy tumor cells or stop bleeding. In this paper, we report on a 3D US guidance system developed to avoid accidents or death of the patient by inaccurate localization of the tumor position during treatment. A 3D US imaging system using a rotational scanning approach of an abdominal probe was built. In order to reduce the distortion produced when the rotational axis is not collinear with the central beam of the probe, a new 3D reconstruction algorithm is used. Then, a fast 3D needle segmentation algorithm is used to find the electrode. Finally, the tip of electrode is determined along the segmented 3D needle and the whole electrode is displayed. Experiments with a water phantom demonstrated the feasibility of our approach.
To infrared images, the contrast of target and background is low, dim small targets have no concrete shapes and their textures cannot be reliable predicted. The paper puts forward a novel algorithm to fuse mid-wave an...
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To infrared images, the contrast of target and background is low, dim small targets have no concrete shapes and their textures cannot be reliable predicted. The paper puts forward a novel algorithm to fuse mid-wave and long-wave infrared images and detect targets. Firstly, the source images are decomposed by wavelet transformation. In usual, targets in infrared images are man-made, and their fractal dimension is different comparing with natural background. In wavelet transformation domain high-frequency part, we calculate local fractal dimension and set up fusion rule to merge corresponding sub-images of two matching source images. In low-frequency, we extract local maximum gray level to fuse them. Then reconstruct image by wavelet inverse transformation and obtain fused result image. In fusion results, the contrast between targets and background has obvious changes. And targets can be detected using contrast thresholding. The experimental results show that the method using fractal dimension to fuse dualband infrared images, and then detect targets is superior to use mid-wave or long -wave infrared images detect targets alone.
This paper introduces the new qualitative and quantitative methods, which can diagnose breast tumors. Qualitative methods include blood vessel display inside and outside of pathological changes part of breast, display...
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This paper introduces the new qualitative and quantitative methods, which can diagnose breast tumors. Qualitative methods include blood vessel display inside and outside of pathological changes part of breast, display of equivalent pixel curves at the part of pathological changes and display of breast tumor image edge. Accordingly, three feature extraction operators are proposed, i.e. the combination operators of anisotropic gradient and smoothing operator, an improved Sobel operator and an edge sharpening operator. Furthermore, quantitative diagnostic approaches are discussed based on blood and oxygen contents according to abundant clinical data and pathological mechanism of breast tumors. The results of clinic show that the methods of combining qualitative and quantitative diagnose are effective for breast tumor images, especially for early and potential breast cancer
In this paper, we present a new method for X-ray angiogram images enhancement using a contrast-modulated nonlinear diffusion. The original nonlinear diffusion is gradient driven, which leads into much dependence on th...
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In this paper, we present a new method for X-ray angiogram images enhancement using a contrast-modulated nonlinear diffusion. The original nonlinear diffusion is gradient driven, which leads into much dependence on the accurate estimation of the edge. However, it is very difficult to get the accurate estimation of edges for X-ray angiogram images, which are characterized with complex background. So it is necessary to do some improvements to this model. By designing a new concept of contrast space according to the characteristics of these images, we change the original nonlinear diffusion into contrast-modulated nonlinear diffusion. Compared with the traditional method, this new approach is proved to have a better performance of enhancement
According to the features of mid-wave and long-wave infrared images,they are decomposed into morphology pyramid respectively based on the new multiscale mathematical morphology filters proposed in the *** features suc...
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According to the features of mid-wave and long-wave infrared images,they are decomposed into morphology pyramid respectively based on the new multiscale mathematical morphology filters proposed in the *** features such as local maximum gray level and average gradient strength of every image are extracted at each level of morphology *** dualband infrared images based on fusion rule put forward in the paper,and then reconstruct original image and detect target using contrast threshold *** experiment results show that dualband infrared images target detection algorithm based on multiscale morphology algorithm is better than use mid-wave or long-wave infrared images detect targets alone.
A DSP/FPGA-based parallel architecture oriented to real-time imageprocessing applications is presented. The architecture is structured with high performance DSPs interconnected by FPGA. Within FPGA a FIFO interconnec...
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A DSP/FPGA-based parallel architecture oriented to real-time imageprocessing applications is presented. The architecture is structured with high performance DSPs interconnected by FPGA. Within FPGA a FIFO interconnection network and the specific data communication protocol are implemented, which interconnect 3 DSPs (TMS320C6414) effectively. The measured performances in the prototype with the proposed parallel architecture, including inter-DSP data communication performance and system computing capacity, show high data transfer bandwidth (up to 400 Mbytes/s) with low latency as well as high imageprocessing performance, which achieve a good balance for parallel imageprocessing
Brachytherapy is a minimally invasive interventional surgery used to treat prostate cancer. It is composed of three steps: dose pre-planning, implantation of radioactive seeds, and dose post-planning. In these procedu...
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Brachytherapy is a minimally invasive interventional surgery used to treat prostate cancer. It is composed of three steps: dose pre-planning, implantation of radioactive seeds, and dose post-planning. In these procedures, it is crucial to determine the positions of needles and seeds, measure the volume of the prostate gland. Three-dimensional transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging has been demonstrated to be a useful technique to perform such tasks. Compared to CT, MRI or X-ray imaging, US image suffers from low contrast, image speckle and shadows, making it challenging for segmentation of needles, the prostates and seeds in the 3D TRUS images. In this paper, we reviewed 3D TRUS image segmentation methods used in prostate brachytherapy including the segmentations of the needles, the prostate, as well as the seeds. Furthermore, some experimental results with agar phantom, turkey and chicken phantom, as well as the patient data are reported
In this paper, a unique road contour extraction approach from high resolution satellite image is proposed, in which the road contour was extracted in two steps. Firstly, support vector machines (SVM) was employed mere...
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In this paper, a unique road contour extraction approach from high resolution satellite image is proposed, in which the road contour was extracted in two steps. Firstly, support vector machines (SVM) was employed merely to classify the image into two groups of categories: a road group and a non-road group. The identified road group images are the discrete and irregularly distributed sampled points, and they are an uncompleted data set for the road. Secondly, the road contour was extracted from the road group images using the tensor voting framework, since the tensor voting technique is superior to the traditional methods in extracting the geometrical structure from the uncompleted data set. The experimental results on the high resolution satellite image demonstrate that the proposed approach worked well with images comprised by both rural and urban area features.
The image fusion is an important approach to produce a single complete image which preserves all relevant information from different sensors. In this paper, we proposed a support value transform-based multi focus imag...
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The image fusion is an important approach to produce a single complete image which preserves all relevant information from different sensors. In this paper, we proposed a support value transform-based multi focus image fusion method, where the fused saliency features are represented by support values. Based on the mapped least squares support vector machine, the support value transform is developed as a multi-scale analysis tool. The fusing results on the multi focus images demonstrate that the proposed image fusion method is effective and efficient
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