In many cases, an image is made of various types of texture. Such diversity can be usefully exploited to get a suitable decomposition of the image into typical classes and then, identify its constitutive elements. Amo...
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In many cases, an image is made of various types of texture. Such diversity can be usefully exploited to get a suitable decomposition of the image into typical classes and then, identify its constitutive elements. Among the approaches used to segment textured images, those based on the statistical analysis of the neighborhood of each pixel seem to be most efficient. In this paper, this kind of method is implemented, which consists in coding the pixels surrounding each point of the image by taking into account the path traveling through them and their grey levels. The rank vectors namely the codes obtained for all the possible paths, are then classified using the K-means algorithm. Considering the 24- rank vectors, this method is tested on different images of the Brodatz album and compared with Laws filters and GLCM. It yields a satisfactory reproduction of the image contours and a classification ratio exceeding 98 %. The 24 rank based-method is also applied to meteorological images collected by Meteosat over Europe and North Africa during December 1994. It is found that these images can be segmented into eight typical classes assignable to the soils, the seas and the clouds observed in the regions under study.
In clinical problems, numerous factors are usually involved in a medical syndrome. New advances in medicine provide a broad range of diagnosis methods to cover all aspects of a disease. However, huge amounts of raw in...
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In clinical problems, numerous factors are usually involved in a medical syndrome. New advances in medicine provide a broad range of diagnosis methods to cover all aspects of a disease. However, huge amounts of raw information may confuse clinicians and decrease decision accuracy. computerized knowledge extraction is an active area of research in medical informatics. This paper suggests a new medical data mining approach using an advanced swarm intelligence data mining algorithm. Considering medical knowledge discovery difficulties, this approach addresses common issues such as missing value management and interactive rule extraction. Here, surgery candidate selection in temporal lobe epilepsy is the main target application. However, the general idea can be applied to other medical knowledge discovery problems. Experimental results show noticeable performance improvement in the final rule-set quality while the method is flexible and fast.
In this research, we developed a three-dimensional finite-difference-time-domain algorithm that incorporated the Lorentz-Drude model through the use of Z-transform technique. This algorithm was used to compute the spe...
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In this research, we developed a three-dimensional finite-difference-time-domain algorithm that incorporated the Lorentz-Drude model through the use of Z-transform technique. This algorithm was used to compute the spectral response of infrared bandpass filters which consisted of the openings of cross-shaped structures in a thin gold film. In creating structures, a graphical user interface was built using Matlab development environment. The created structures were then simulated by running the simulation code written in Fortran. It was observed that cross-shaped structures with large center-broadening effect yielded the highest transmission intensity among the structures that were simulated with a transmittance of approximately 80% at the wavelength of 1.2 μm.
Breakthrough-quality scientific discoveries in the new millennium (such as those expected in computation biology and others), along with optimal engineering designs, have created a demand for High-End Computing (HEC) ...
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(纸本)0769523129
Breakthrough-quality scientific discoveries in the new millennium (such as those expected in computation biology and others), along with optimal engineering designs, have created a demand for High-End Computing (HEC) systems with sustained performance requirements at a petaflop scale and beyond. Despite the very pessimistic (if not negative) views on parallel computing systems that have prevailed in 1990s, there seems to be no other viable alternatives for such HEC systems. In this talk, we present a fresh look at the problems facing the design of petascale parallel computing systems. We review several fundamental issues that such HEC parallel computing systems must resolve. These issues include: execution models that support dynamic and adaptive multithreading, fine-grain synchronization, and global name-space and memory consistency. Related issues in parallel programming, dynamic compilation models, and system software design will also be discussed. Present solutions and future direction will be discussed based on (1) application demand (e.g. computation biology and others), (2) the recent trend as demonstrated by the HTMT, HPCS, and the Blue-Gene Cyclops (e.g. Cyclops-64) architectures, and (3) a historical perspective on influential models such as dataflow, along with concepts learned from these models.
A comparative study between Java and Avaj, a concurrent programming language, is presented. java uses wait (), notify (), and notifyAll () construct to support monitors, while Avaj simply supports the construct await ...
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A comparative study between Java and Avaj, a concurrent programming language, is presented. java uses wait (), notify (), and notifyAll () construct to support monitors, while Avaj simply supports the construct await (B), where B is any Boolean expression. The syntax for the Avaj abort () construct is simple and allows programmer to call abort () inside any method. Avaj also incorporates the selective communication construct in the language. The invariant (B) construct in Avaj allows a Boolean expression to be invariant in a program.
In this paper, the structure of a system is proposed that aims at providing clinicians with easy-to-use, well structured and accurate medical information for support of diagnosis, treatment, medical research and educa...
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In this paper we investigate the problem of finding a delay- and degree-bounded maximum sum of nodes application level multicast tree. We then proved the problem is NP-hard, and its relationship with the well-studied ...
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A new method for the reduction of the number of colors in a digital image is proposed. The new method is based on the developed of a new neural network classifier that combines the advantages of the Growing Neural Gas...
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The purpose of this work is to develop a time-frequency signal analysis system to detect and recognize different kinds of power quality events or disturbances. To achieve our goal, design of computational signal proce...
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(纸本)0780391977
The purpose of this work is to develop a time-frequency signal analysis system to detect and recognize different kinds of power quality events or disturbances. To achieve our goal, design of computational signal processing methods is being addressed developing time-frequency tools based on signal algebra operators. The use of signal algebra operators permits the formulation of time-frequency algorithms in a computational framework setting, allowing the search for efficient hardware implementations. Time-frequency formulations are being implemented for embedded system applications using Digital Signal processing (DSP) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) units. Voltage disturbances are responsible for many disruptions in industrial, commercial and residential power supply systems, causing time and monetary losses. It is necessary to identify fast methods of determining when these disturbances are occurring in order to make correct power quality decisions. Automated information processing systems are needed to assess existing problems. Although a lot of work has been done on power line disturbance assessment, new techniques are desired to address new challenging power quality issues, specially in the area of physical security. Time-frequency signal analysis is a well known tool used in fields such as speech, sonar, and radar processing and is now finding its being in power quality assessment. A time-frequency representation is a two-dimensional representation that shows how the spectral content of a given signal changes with time. There is a genuine interest in this kind of representations for the field of power quality signal analysis systems since they provide more information than the typical one dimensional analysis. To achieve the goals of this work an environment is being created using MATLAB to simulate power line signal disturbances such as swells, sags, harmonic distortions, and outages. This environment computes desired time-frequency representations of
In this paper, we propose a hybrid Tabu Expectation Maximization (TEM) Algorithm for segmentation of Brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images in both supervised and unsupervised framewrok. Gaussian Hidden Markov Random Fi...
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