Efficient reconfigurable VLSI architecture for 1-D 5/3 and 9/7 wavelet transforms adopted in JPEG2000 proposal, based on lifting scheme is proposed. The embedded decimation technique based on fold and time multiplexin...
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Efficient reconfigurable VLSI architecture for 1-D 5/3 and 9/7 wavelet transforms adopted in JPEG2000 proposal, based on lifting scheme is proposed. The embedded decimation technique based on fold and time multiplexing, as well as embedded boundary data extension technique, is adopted to optimize the design of the architecture. These reduce significantly the required numbers of the multipliers, adders and registers, as well as the amount of accessing external memory, and lead to decrease efficiently the hardware cost and power consumption of the design. The architecture is designed to generate an output per clock cycle, and the detailed component and the approximation of the input signal are available alternately. Experimental simulation and comparison results are presented, which demonstrate that the proposed architecture has lower hardware complexity, thus it is adapted for embedded applications. The presented architecture is simple, regular and scalable, and well suited for VLSI implementation.
The requirement of algorithm for detecting small target in infrared image sequences is not only a high rate to identify the true target and a low false alarm rate, but also the computation efficiency. By employing the...
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The requirement of algorithm for detecting small target in infrared image sequences is not only a high rate to identify the true target and a low false alarm rate, but also the computation efficiency. By employing the selective attention mechanism, biological visual system can interpret a complex incoming image in real time with limited hardware resources. Much evidence has suggested that the biological visual system processes information in a serial strategy which rapidly selects a small relevant region in scene for further complex and time consuming analysis. In this paper, a two component computation scheme is proposed to detect dim targets in infrared image sequences. In the first process stage, an efficient method is applied to extract the potential targets which are further identified in second phase, the true targets are detected, and the spurious objects are rejected. The attention-based approach reduces the computation complexity, while the other performance aspects are not traded off. Experimental results indicate that the proposed extraction and recognition modules exhibit excellent performance of detecting small target in infrared image sequences, especially in process speed aspect.
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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The polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PSAR) images are modeled by a mixture model that results from the product of two independent models, one characterizes the target response and the other characterizes the spe...
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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 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, 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.
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
This paper presents a novel approach to compute DCT-I, DCT-III, and DCT-IV. By using a modular mapping and truncating, DCTs are approximated by linear sums of discrete moments computed fast only through additions. Thi...
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The granular appearance of speckle noise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery makes it very difficult to visually and automatically interpret SAR data. Therefore, speckle reduction is a prerequisite for many SAR ...
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The granular appearance of speckle noise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery makes it very difficult to visually and automatically interpret SAR data. Therefore, speckle reduction is a prerequisite for many SAR imageprocessing tasks. We develop a speckle reduction algorithm by fusing the wavelet denoising technique with support vector machine (SVM). Based on the least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) with Gaussian radial basis function kernel, a new denoising operators used in the wavelet domain are obtained. Simulated SAR images and real SAR images are used to evaluate the denoising performance of our proposed algorithm along with another wavelet-based denoising algorithm, as well as the refined Lee speckle filter. Experimental results show that the that the proposed filter method outperforms standard wavelet denoising techniques in terms of the ratio images and the equivalent-number-of-looks measures in most cases. It also achieves better performance than the refined Lee filter.
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