Based on the statistic and the fuzzy uncertainty information in an image, a new fuzzy information gain method was proposed to measure the distinctness between the object image and the reference image, which provides a...
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Based on the statistic and the fuzzy uncertainty information in an image, a new fuzzy information gain method was proposed to measure the distinctness between the object image and the reference image, which provides a new criterion for image matching or retrieval. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the new method.
Airway segmentation on CT scans is critical for pulmonary disease diagnosis and endobronchial navigation. Manual extraction of airway requires strenuous efforts due to the complicated structure and various appearance ...
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The general single image super-resolution methods mainly extract features from the high-resolution (HR) space by the pre-upscaling step at the beginning of the network or from the low-resolution (LR) space before the ...
The general single image super-resolution methods mainly extract features from the high-resolution (HR) space by the pre-upscaling step at the beginning of the network or from the low-resolution (LR) space before the post-upscaling step at the end of the network. The former way requires high computation as well as misleading the network by wrong artificial priors. The latter way cannot learn mapping well by only conducting simple operations in HR space. In this paper, we aim to utilize the features from LR and HR space more efficiently and propose the novel network, which applies a frequency-slicing mechanism to divide features into LR and HR space, a direction-aware fusion residual group to extract distinctive features in LR space and an attention fusion module to recalibrate features in HR space. The experimental results demonstrate that our model is superior to the state-of-the-art methods upon quantitative metrics and visual quality.
As a fundamental biological problem, revealing the protein folding mechanism remains to be one of the most challenging problems in structural bioinformatics. Prediction of protein folding rate is an important step tow...
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A quick 3D needle segmentation algorithm for 3D US data is described in this paper. The algorithm includes the 3D quick randomized Hough transform (3DGHT), which is based on the 3D randomized Hough transform and coars...
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A quick 3D needle segmentation algorithm for 3D US data is described in this paper. The algorithm includes the 3D quick randomized Hough transform (3DGHT), which is based on the 3D randomized Hough transform and coarse-fine searching strategy. We tested it with water phantom. The results show that our algorithm works well in 3D US images with angular deviation less than 1 degree and position deviation less than 1 mm, and the computational time of segmentation with 35 MB data is within 1s.
Stroke and heart attack, which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named asatherosclerosis, would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality. And the carotid artery of intima-media ...
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Stroke and heart attack, which could be led by a kind of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease named asatherosclerosis, would seriously cause human morbidity and mortality. And the carotid artery of intima-media thickness (IMT) is a key indicator to the disease. With the development of computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) technology, Ultrasound imaging, being real-time, economic, reliable, safe, and now seems to become a standard in vascular assessment methodology especially for the measurement of IMT. This review is an attempt to discuss the clinical relevance of measurements in clinical practice at first, and then followed by the challenges that one has to face when approaching the segmentation of ultrasound images. Secondly, the paper is presentation of common used methods for the IMT segmentation and measurement. An overview of summary and future perspectives is given in conclusion finally.
We use a large foundation language model, which is fine-tuned with debate corpora, to develop a robot debater application. To address the limitations of requiring immense computational power in large base language mod...
We use a large foundation language model, which is fine-tuned with debate corpora, to develop a robot debater application. To address the limitations of requiring immense computational power in large base language models, this study takes advantage of the Low Rank Adaption characteristic prevalent in domain expert knowledge. By applying Low Rank Adaption technology and fine-tuning with a dedicated dataset, the computational load is reduced to just one-thousandth of what is needed for a large language model, greatly expanding the application scenarios of robot debaters using large language models. In view of the characteristics of debate competitions, this model can preset a variety of debate scenarios and supports personalized debate processes. It employs intelligent voice recognition technology combined with a multi-channel voice input method, allowing for precise localization of different human debaters and improving the accuracy of voice input recognition. The system can support multiple large-scale language generation models and utilize various different voice broadcasting systems, including male and female voice styles, as well as a range of voice emotions. This model can be applied to debate competitions held in universities, high schools, and various industries. It can support human-machine debates as well as machine-to-machine debates.
A hybrid method is used to evaluate atherosclerosis through a mathematical morphology approach and GVF-Snake method. Common carotid artery (CCA) segmentation requires outlining the intima and adventitia contours on th...
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A hybrid method is used to evaluate atherosclerosis through a mathematical morphology approach and GVF-Snake method. Common carotid artery (CCA) segmentation requires outlining the intima and adventitia contours on the transverse view of B-mode ultrasound (US) images. The lumen and adventitia contours are segmented using a morphology and GVF-Snake methods, respectively. Upon analyzing ten separate patient data sets demonstrate that a comparison between the proposed method and the traditional approach (manual contouring) on 110 transverse images of the CCA showed a mean absolute distance (MAD) of 0.67±0.17mm for lumen and 0.64 ± 0.19mm for adventitia. Their Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) values are 92.7%±2.3% and 90.3%±3.5% for lumen and adventitia segmentation, respectively. These values are in good agreement with clinical standards.
The analysis of the carotid artery wall is of paramount importance in clinical practice. Especially, the intima-media thickness is a risk index for some of the most severe acute cerebrovascular pathologies, hence, an ...
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The analysis of the carotid artery wall is of paramount importance in clinical practice. Especially, the intima-media thickness is a risk index for some of the most severe acute cerebrovascular pathologies, hence, an accurate segmentation of the different layers of the carotid artery is needed. IMT is usually manually measured on longitudinal B-mode ultrasound images. In the past ten years, many computer-based techniques for intima-media thickness measurement have been proposed to overcome the limits of manual segmentation, but almost all of them require a certain degree of user interaction. In this paper we proposed a novel approach for the completely user-independent segmentation of the common carotid artery wall. Our algorithm is designed for the extraction of the intima and media layers of the distal carotid wall in ultrasound images. It is based on integrated approach consisting of common carotid artery region identification, contour initialization with threshold segmentation, intima-lumen segmentation with Snake, and media-adventitia segmentation with GVF-Snake that enables the automated tracing of the carotid walls. The acoustic impedance's difference is employed to locate common carotid artery region. Finally, the characterization of the algorithm in terms of segmentation error was evaluated with a set of 40 common carotid artery ultrasound images and compared to the segmentation traced by a trained operator. Experiments showed that a mean error lower than 1.3 pixel both on the intima and media layers was obtained, which is comparable to that obtained by means of operator dependent techniques.
Sign information is the key to overcoming the inevitable saturation error in compressive sensing systems, which causes information loss and results in bias. For sparse signal recovery from saturation, we propose to us...
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