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
This paper presents a super performance bandgap voltage reference for DC-DC converter with adjustable output. It generates a wide range of voltage reference ranging from sub-1 V to 1.2217 V and has a low temperature c...
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This paper presents a super performance bandgap voltage reference for DC-DC converter with adjustable output. It generates a wide range of voltage reference ranging from sub-1 V to 1.2217 V and has a low temperature coefficient of 2.3 × 10-5/K over the temperature variation using the current feedback and resistive subdivision. In addition, the power supply rejection ration of the proposed bandgap voltage reference is 78 dB. When supply voltage varies from 2.5 V to 6 V, output VREF is 1.221685 ± 0.055 mV.
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
This paper proposes a new image denoising method which exploits spatial correlation among image wavelet coefficients and classification technique. By extending the neighbouring threshold of wavelet coefficients for 1D...
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This paper proposes a new image denoising method which exploits spatial correlation among image wavelet coefficients and classification technique. By extending the neighbouring threshold of wavelet coefficients for 1D signal to 2D image case, each coefficient in a subband is classified as "large" or "small" category, according to its corresponding neighbouring threshold. Different strategies are implemented to the classified coefficients. Simulation results show that although very simple, the performance of the proposed method can be competitive to the two excellent state of the art denoising algorithms with spatial adaptivity
Making use of neighborhood time series is an effective way of noise reduction in fMRI data. However the conventional averaging methods blur activated areas. In this paper, a filter with adaptive kernel is designed suc...
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Making use of neighborhood time series is an effective way of noise reduction in fMRI data. However the conventional averaging methods blur activated areas. In this paper, a filter with adaptive kernel is designed such that its kernel size and direction are defined at each voxel. First, for finding the optimum size of kernel, a linear combination of some isotropic Gaussian filters with different variances is used, and optimum value of variance is specified. Then, the appropriate kernel direction is determined by a linear combination of some anisotropic basic filters with various directions. The weights of these linear combinations can be calculated by using the restricted canonical correlation method. The proposed method is compared with a similar method based on the steerable filters and the results show that the proposed method improves the ROC curve and prohibits false spread of the activation areas.
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.
K-BALL is a general method for localization of anatomical phenomena of the same origin with natural discrepancies distributed over a reference space, e.g., human brain anatomical structures. In this paper, we focus on...
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K-BALL is a general method for localization of anatomical phenomena of the same origin with natural discrepancies distributed over a reference space, e.g., human brain anatomical structures. In this paper, we focus on information analysis step (2nd step) of K-BALL during which landmarks extracted in its first step are evaluated. We provide a framework in which rules are automatically generated based on estimated and derived models. We show that the rules based on the derived models can improve the overall success rate of K-BALL. Each rule evaluates the extracted points by producing an intermediate confidence factor (ICNF). A total confidence factor is calculated using ICNF's to facilitate the acceptance or rejection of a set of points as landmarks of interest. Using the rules merely based on the estimated models, simulation study produced an overall success rate of 91.8%. Using the rules based on both of the estimated and derived models, this rate increased to 92.5%
A C64x-based multi-DSP real-time imageprocessing system is introduced, which uses high performance TMS320C6414 DSP to process image and FPGA device to realize LINK port to transport image data with LVDS signal. Requi...
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A C64x-based multi-DSP real-time imageprocessing system is introduced, which uses high performance TMS320C6414 DSP to process image and FPGA device to realize LINK port to transport image data with LVDS signal. Requirements of imageprocessing performance and image data communication of image fusion are met. Based on the hardware system, a real time microkernel based distributed operating system is designed and implemented. At the end, its real-time performance is analyzed from three aspects. It's shown that the real time imageprocessing system can reach the requirements of real time imageprocessing.
Since the DC-coupled interface between the driver and the laser diode makes it impossible for the conventional drivers to work with low power supply, an output stage has been proposed. A novel APC can suppress the out...
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Since the DC-coupled interface between the driver and the laser diode makes it impossible for the conventional drivers to work with low power supply, an output stage has been proposed. A novel APC can suppress the output average optical power and extinction ratio within ±0.3 dBm and ±0.4 dB(-40°C to 100°C), respectively. The initialization time is not more than 0.6 μs because the fast binary search algorithm is incorporated into the APC. The burst-on delay and burst-off delay are less than 5 ns and meet the requirement of PON system. The chip is fabricated in TSMC 0.8 μm BiCMOS process and occupies an area of 1.56 mm × 1.67 mm with a power consumption of 105 mW.
In this paper, design principles and application of a thin and flexible intravascular top hat monopole probe with increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and improved longitudinal and radial coverage are described and c...
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