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.
Neovascularization (NV) is a definitive indicator for the onset of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR). The new vessels are fragile and prone to bleed, leading to high risk of sudden vision loss. Automatic detection of NV is an important task in automatic Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) screening as a consequence of the unmet requirement between the growing number of DR patients and limited number...
Aiming at solving the problem of low matching accuracy caused by different imaging mechanism of heterologous image, we propose a novel image registration algorithm based on effective sub-image extraction and bidirectional matching for surf feature points. The algorithm adopts a coarse-to-fine matching strategy. Firstly, we transform the edge image into frequency domain through fast Fourier transform,...
Aiming at the characteristics of SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm which has large amount of calculation and can be highly paralleled, we propose an optimized FPGA implementation so that it can be accelerated on hardware. In this method, we firstly simplify the process of filtering image and generating Gaussian pyramids through selecting appropriate parameters and hardware structure,...
Needle entry site localization remains a challenge for procedures that involve lumbar puncture, for example, epidural anesthesia. To solve the problem, we have developed an image classification algorithm that can automatically identify the bone/interspinous region for ultrasound images obtained from lumbar spine of pregnant patients in the transverse plane. The proposed algorithm consists of feature...
In this paper, we propose an ultrasound image processing procedure for fully automatic lumbar spine level identification. The image processing procedure starts with automatic sacrum identification, with feature selection and support vector machine (SVM) classification. After sacrum is detected, a panorama image stitching procedure is initiated to obtain the overall spinous processes structure. Throughout...
In this paper, we proposed a feature extraction and machine learning method for the classification of ultrasound images obtained from lumbar spine of pregnant patients in the transverse plane. A group of features, including matching values and positions, appearance of black pixels within predefined windows along the midline, are extracted from the ultrasound images using template matching and midline...
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.