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The rapid developments of the image sensor technology have made them an important tool in different areas. Many applications utilizing image sensors were proposed. In recent years, there is a tendency to utilize light-emitting diodes (LED) as a light source replacing normal lamps due to its obvious advantages over incandescent light sources, which including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime,...
Blastocystis is a unicellular but polymorphic protozoan parasite causing digestive diseases in humans. Autophagy, a self-degradation process, is only recently found in Blastocystis. Identifying and enumerating autophagic Blastocystis cells using fluorescent microscopy are important in biology. Doing this manually is laborious and error-prone. This paper proposes image analysis techniques to automate...
This paper presents a novel multi-level approach for bleeding detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) images. In the low-level processing, each cell of K×K pixels is characterized by an adaptive color histogram which optimizes the information representation for WCE images. A Neural Network (NN) cell-classifier is trained to classify cells in an image as bleeding or non-bleeding patches. In the...
Myopia is a growing concern in many societies. In extremely high myopia, pathological myopia, which can cause visual loss, can occur. Pathological myopia is also accompanied by various visually perceivable symptoms on the retina, such as peripapillary atrophy. PAMELA is an automatic system for the detection of pathological myopia through the presence of peripapillary atrophy. In this paper, we describe...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. The disease is highly associated with age, and becoming increasingly prevalent in our aging societies. Drusen is a pathological feature that is well-associated with AMD. In this paper, we present a method of detecting drusen in retinal fundus images. The method first determines the location of the macula, which is used...
State-of-the-art deformable registration algorithms do not perform as well with FA sequences because they are designed to deal with changes of content appearance (e.g., due to different sensors imaging the same organs) but not with content changes, which occur throughout a FA sequence as different portions or the vascular structure are visible (perfused) in different frames. This paper presents a...
Cataract is the leading cause of blindness and posterior subcapsular cataract (PSC) leads to significant visual impairment. An automatic approach for detecting PSC opacity in retro-illumination images is investigated. The features employed include intensity, edge, size and spatial location. The system was tested using 441 images. The automatic detection was compared with the human expert. The sensitivity...
Glaucoma is the one of the two major causes of blindness, which can be diagnosed through measurement of neuro-retinal optic cup-to-disc ratio (CDR). Automatic calculation of optic cup boundary is challenging due to the interweavement of blood vessels with the surrounding tissues around the cup. A multimodality fusion approach for neuroretinal cup detection improves the accuracy of the boundary estimation...
Segmentation of Connected numeral strings plays an important role in number recognition systems. A new method to segment two connected numeral strings is proposed in the article, we define characteristic position first, using it the graph-representation of the image is derived, based on this and using contour detecting we attain the candidate segmentation position pairs used for determining the segmentation...
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