The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Solving the inverse heat conduction problem is the key to determining heat flux on the surface of an object. Unfortunately, it is a typical ill-posed problem, as only numerical approximation methods are available for finding an approximate solution. It is common to use some heuristic methods, such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation, etc. Although the main mechanisms of these approaches...
The Radon transform and the reverse formulas are mostly used in computer tomography to reconstruct the original shape. The projections of an image could be used in computer vision for object recognition, based on projection matching. By comparing the projections, an effective method could be defined. To understand the projection behavior the basic properties of the transform are inspected, and the...
The application of lossless data compression methods may significantly decrease the required storage space or throughput. The quality of the compression ratio is influenced by several factors, like the available space and processing resources and the statistical characteristic of the data to be compressed. In this contribution we will perform the boundary analysis of Virtual Dictionary Extension(-VDE),...
Several methods are available in computer vision to recognize objects. Mostly, these methods consist of two well-separated parts: first the region of interest has to be recognized on the input image. After this, the visual representation of the object has to be compared with already-known samples: there are several ways, mostly based on the shape, color and pattern, or corner- or keypoints of the...
Several real-world applications involve simulation of the heat transfer within a given workpiece when placed into an environment with a different temperature. This requires calculation of the temperature in a particular location and at a given moment in time according to the available input parameters (shape and thermal characteristics of the given object and the environment). There are several computer-assisted...
One of the biggest shortcomings of the CUDA environment is the lack of a data structure having effective parallel insert and remove operations. This paper focuses on the insertion. The traditional vector-based lists are not applicable for this kind of addition; however, the well-known linked list data structure has the ability to handle parallel insertions at the same time. But nowadays, there is...
This paper introduces a novel method to calculate multi-directional projections of squared images, similar to the Radon transformation. Image projections are often used as object signatures for detection, matching and tracking techniques in computer vision. The Radon transformation provides a fast solution to calculate these pixel intensity sums. The proposed method is based on trigonometric functions...
To simulate the behaviour of cell-level biological interactions, cells can be modeled as individual agents interacting with each other. To identify the effects of parameter perturbation, a massive number of simulations are usually required that are feasible to carry out by parallel computation. In this article, a multiprocessing scheme is defined to reduce the overall runtime. The scheme relies on...
Particle swarm optimization is one of the most promising methods for solving the inverse heat conduction problem. However, it needs a high computing capacity and a long time to find optimal solutions for large scale problems (large swarm populations). This paper presents a further improvement of our already published GPU-based method. Our new method extends the original algorithm with an initial temporary...
Template matching is a classic technique used in image processing for object detection. It is based on multiple matrix-based calculations, where there are no dependencies on partial results, so parallel solutions could be created. In this article two GPU implemented methods are presented and compared to the CPU-based sequential solution.
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the de facto file system in vanilla Hadoop and most of open source Hadoop distributions. However HDFS suffers from the so called Small File Problem. Storm is a parallelized stream processing framework. In this paper we evaluate buffering strategies to mitigate the small file problem. In our evaluations Storm will be the small file source.
Generally, template matching methods are very sensible to image orientation, rotation or the size of the template. However, there are known occasions, when they perform better then other keypoint-based techniques. This article demonstrates a massively parallelizable method to multi-scaled template matching. By implementing it sequentially on CPU and on GPU with a naive approach, the runtimes can be...
There are several implicit and explicit formulations to solve the Inverse Heat Conduction Problem. One of the most promising methods is the Particle Swarm Optimization; however, it needs a long time to find solutions for large scale problems (large swarm populations). This paper presents the implementation and the evaluation of a parallel approach using graphics accelerators. This GPU implementation...
Nowadays, processing medical images is increasingly done through using digital imagery and custom software solutions. The distributed algorithm presented in this paper is used to detect special tissue parts, the nuclei on haematoxylin and eosin stained colon tissue sample images. The main aim of this work is the development of a new data-parallel region growing algorithm that can be implemented even...
In the current practice of medicine, histopathological examinations are some of the most important tools for clinical diagnoses of a large group of diseases. To help pathologists and to reduce the subjectivity level, it has been proposed that computer-aided procedures be used to provide objective results. The first step of these procedures is the segmentation of the tissue image. In our research,...
The purpose of this project is to develop a software which can be an aid for difficult colon cancer diagnosis and using this system the patients can be helped with an early diagnosis. The aim can be achieved with processing and analysing microscopic tissue images. This paper contains the basic knowledges related to the project and the description of the developed system. The implemented algorithms...
The processing of microscopic tissue images is nowadays done more and more using special immunodiagnostic-evaluation software products. Often to evaluate the samples, the first step is determining the number and location of cell nuclei. To do this, one of the most promising methods is the region growing, but this algorithm is very sensitive to the appropriate setting of different parameters. Due to...
The processing of microscopic tissue images and especially the detection of cell nuclei is nowadays done more and more using digital imagery and special immunodiagnostic software products. Since several methods (and applications) were developed for the same purpose, it is important to have a measuring number to determine which one is more efficient than the others. The purpose of the article is to...
Nowadays microscopic analysis of tissue samples is done more and more by using digital imagery and special immunodiagnostic software. These are typically specific applications developed for one distinct field, but some subroutines are commonly repeated, for example several applications contain steps that can detect cell nuclei in a sample image. The aim of our research is developing a new data parallel...
The main aim of this work is to show, how GPGPUs can facilitate certain type of image processing methods. The software used in this paper is used to detect special tissue part, the nuclei on (HE - hematoxilin eosin) stained colon tissue sample images. Since pathologists are working with large number of high resolution images - thus require significant storage space -, one feasible way to achieve reasonable...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.