Graphical representation of protein sequences provides a simple way of viewing, comparing and analyzing proteins. Here, we propose a new 2D spectrum-like graphical representation of protein sequences. Two mathematical...
详细信息
Graphical representation of protein sequences provides a simple way of viewing, comparing and analyzing proteins. Here, we propose a new 2D spectrum-like graphical representation of protein sequences. Two mathematical models are built and demonstrate that this representation avoids degeneracy and loss of information, and can reflect the length of a sequence. Moreover, observers can easily know the content of each amino acid in a protein sequence. The approach is illustrated on two segments of protein of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Based on the current development of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) in Enterprise Information System (EIS), the paper proposes a DMDA, a new development architecture to improve EIS development speed and quality. The b...
详细信息
Lesion segmentation, which is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis system, is a challenging task as lesion boundaries are usually obscured, irregular, and low contrast. In this paper, an accurate and robust alg...
详细信息
Lesion segmentation, which is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis system, is a challenging task as lesion boundaries are usually obscured, irregular, and low contrast. In this paper, an accurate and robust algorithm for the automatic segmentation of breast lesions in mammograms is proposed. The traditional watershed transformation is applied to the smoothed (by the morphological reconstruction) morphological gradient image to obtain the lesion boundary in the belt between the internal and external markers. To automatically determine the internal and external markers, the rough region of the lesion is identified by a template matching and a thresholding method. Then, the internal marker is determined by performing a distance transform and the external marker by morphological dilation. The proposed algorithm is quantitatively compared to the dynamic programming boundary tracing method and the plane fitting and dynamic programming method on a set of 363 lesions (size range, 5-42 mm in diameter;mean, 15 mm), using the area overlap metric (AOM), Hausdorff distance (HD), and average minimum Euclidean distance (AMED). The mean +/- SD of the values of AOM, HD, and AMED for our method were respectively 0.72 +/- 0.13, 5.69 +/- 2.85 mm, and 1.76 +/- 1.04 mm, which is a better performance than two other proposed segmentation methods. The results also confirm the potential of the proposed algorithm to allow reliable segmentation and quantification of breast lesion in mammograms.
In this paper, a third-order canonical circuit with a memristor is investigated. Unlike the conventional circuit systems, it has an equilibrium set, whose stability is affected by the initial state of the memristor. T...
详细信息
Fuzzy enhancement is applied in computer aided diagnosis of liver cancer from B mode ultrasound images as a pre-processing procedure in this paper. It was evaluated with three classifiers including K means, back propa...
详细信息
Different biological processes take different times to be completed, which can also be influenced by many environmental factors. In this work, a realistic definition of nonsynchronized spiking neural P systems (SN P s...
详细信息
Different biological processes take different times to be completed, which can also be influenced by many environmental factors. In this work, a realistic definition of nonsynchronized spiking neural P systems (SN P systems, for short) is considered: during the work of an SN P system, the execution times of spiking rules cannot be known exactly (i.e., they are arbitrary). In order to establish robust systems against the environmental factors, a special class of SN P systems, called time-free SN P systems, is introduced, which always produce the same computation result independent of the execution times of the rules. The universality of time-free SN P systems is investigated. It is proved that these P systems with extended rules (several spikes can be produced by a rule) are equivalent to register machines. However, if the number of spikes present in the system is bounded, then the power of time-free SN P systems falls, and in this case, a characterization of semilinear sets of natural numbers is obtained.
With the economic developments, high speed railway has been paid many attentions in China and medium- short term planning of Chinese high speed railway network has been formed and most of the railways have been starte...
详细信息
This paper proves that Otsu threshold is equal to the average of the mean levels of two classes partitioned by this threshold. Therefore, when the within-class variances of two classes are different, the threshold bia...
详细信息
This paper proves that Otsu threshold is equal to the average of the mean levels of two classes partitioned by this threshold. Therefore, when the within-class variances of two classes are different, the threshold biases toward the class with larger variance. As a result, partial pixels belonging to this class will be mis-classified into the other class with smaller variance. To address this problem and based on the analysis of Otsu threshold, this paper proposes an improved Otsu algorithm that constrains the search range of gray levels. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of new algorithm compared with Otsu method. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
With the wide use of power conversion devices, harmonic currents are being injected into the power grid. Shunt Active Power Filters (SAPF) is a power electronic device to compensate the harmonic currents caused by non...
详细信息
A novel quasi-physical edge detection model is presented. The model, referred to as the effusion-evaporation model (EEM), is inspired by the natural phenomenon that the water effusing from the ground evaporates in the...
详细信息
A novel quasi-physical edge detection model is presented. The model, referred to as the effusion-evaporation model (EEM), is inspired by the natural phenomenon that the water effusing from the ground evaporates in the sunshine and leaves a wire like water stain on the ground surface, which reflects the physiognomy of the terrain. Based on the simulation of water effusing and evaporating, an EEM regards the complement of gradient magnitude image as a three-dimensional terrain, and the concave regions, which contain the residual water in the evolution final state, are used to determine the edges. Subjective and objective comparisons are performed on the proposed algorithm and two conventional edge detectors, namely Canny and LoG. The comparison results show that the proposed method outperforms Canny and LoG detectors for the real images and the standard test images with Gaussian noise. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
暂无评论