Wind-up, a condition related to chronic pain, is described traditionally as a frequency dependent increase in the excitability of sensory spinal cord neurons, evoked by electrical stimulation of small pain fibers. In ...
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Wind-up, a condition related to chronic pain, is described traditionally as a frequency dependent increase in the excitability of sensory spinal cord neurons, evoked by electrical stimulation of small pain fibers. In this paper, we introduce a computational model on wind-up of large (Abeta) fibers, considering three major mechanisms of wind-up: 1) a feedforward mechanism causing Ca 2+ entry, 2) a positive feedback, causing more Ca 2+ entry, and 3) a feedforward due to sprouting of Abeta fibers towards the small pain fibers. Our model proposes three different ways for reducing wind-up and shows the most important way to treat the pain
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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A new n-dimensional (multi-dimensional) k-order (multi-order) system-model is introduced as an extension of the corresponding Fornasini-Marchesini model. In addition, using this model the discrete Fourier transform (D...
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Centerline extraction of curvilinear objects is a crucial component of virtual endoscopy (VE) because it provides path planning for automatic navigation. In this paper, we present a guided voxel coding (GVC) algorithm...
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This paper presents algorithms that optimize the baseline H.264 encoder without loss of image quality and compression ratio. We propose an adaptive mode decision algorithm to speedup complex mode decision with rate di...
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Deformable or active contour, and surface models are powerful image segmentation techniques. We introduce a novel fast and robust bi-directional parametric deformable model which is able to segment regions of intricat...
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Deformable or active contour, and surface models are powerful image segmentation techniques. We introduce a novel fast and robust bi-directional parametric deformable model which is able to segment regions of intricate shape in multi-modal greyscale images. The power of the algorithm in terms of computation time and robustness is owing to the use of joint probabilities of the signals and region labels in individual points as external forces guiding the model evolution. These joint probabilities are derived from a Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF) image model considering an image as a sample of two interrelated spatial stochastic processes. The low level process with conditionally independent and arbitrarily distributed signals relates to the observed image whereas its hidden map of regions is represented with the high level MGRF of interdependent region labels. Marginal probability distributions of signals in each region are recovered from a mixed empirical signal distribution over the whole image. In so doing, each marginal is approximated with a linear combination of Gaussians (LCG) having both positive and negative components. The LCG parameters are estimated using our previously proposed modification of the EM algorithm, and the high-level Gibbs potentials are computed analytically. Comparative experiments show that the proposed model outlines complicated boundaries of different modal objects much more accurately than other known counterparts.
Noise reduction especially in low light level images is an important feature in consumer cameras. Existing methods to reduce such noise often degrade image quality due to an improper choice of filters. We present a hi...
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Deposits (waxes, hydrates, etc.) change the damping properties of pipelines. The damping ratio of the pipeline increases with increments in deposit thickness. Thus, the evaluation of the damping ratio of the pipeline ...
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This paper presents a feature point tracking algorithm using optical flow under the non-prior training active feature model (NPT-AFM) framework. The proposed algorithm mainly focuses on analysis of deformable objects,...
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A new generalized multi-dimensional (n-dimensional) multi-order (k-order) (GnDkO) linear system/model is introduced. Using this model, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is used to compute the coefficients of the tr...
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A new generalized multi-dimensional (n-dimensional) multi-order (k-order) (GnDkO) linear system/model is introduced. Using this model, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is used to compute the coefficients of the transfer function. The algorithm is straightforward and can be easily implemented. A step-by-step example illustrating the application of the algorithm is presented.
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