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.
Multi-Harmonic Phase Analysis (MHPA) has been developed for heart failure prognosis by reliably measuring left-ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony from conventional gated single photon emission tomography (GSPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Although MHPA has been evaluated in multiple clinical studies, its accuracy can be limited under highly noisy conditions. The purpose of this study is to develop...
Multi-Harmonic Phase Analysis (MHPA) has been developed to quantify left-ventricular (LV) mechanical dyssynchrony with gated single photon emission tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Although MHPA has shown promising clinical results, it needs to be optimized technically. The purpose of this study is to develop a tool to simulate LV mechanical dyssynchrony in gated SPECT MPI using...
Open Computing Language (OpenCL) is a fundamental technology for cross-platform parallel programming. The emerging of OpenCL provides portable and efficient access to the power of modern processors. This revolutionary new technology is applied to accelerate the reconstruction of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in this paper. An OpenCL-based implementation of...
Boundary irregularity of skin lesions is of clinical significance for early detection of malignant melanomas, while structural components of lesion contour have clinical significance in particular. To extract effective features of structural components of skin lesions, an integrated approach is proposed in this paper using wavelet decompositions and inter-class distance analysis (Hausdorff Distance,...
This paper presents a novel video encoding algorithm using the technique of Hybrid Vector Quantization (HVQ). Two modes of operations are defined in the encoder part, i.e. intra-mode and inter-mode. A blended algorithm based on Mean Coding and Conventional VQ (MCCVQ) using an intra-codebook is adopted for the intra-mode of operation. In the inter-mode of operation, no-encode sub-mode is for static...
A kind of low complexity inter-frame coding algorithm based on vector quantization (VQ) is presented in this paper. There are three inter encode modes according to the motion type of the image block. Not-encode mode is adopted by static block, residual mean coding mode is adopted by the smooth motion block, VQ and mean encode mode are adopted by general motion block. The motion type of the image block...
Circular trajectories are commonly used in cone-beam (CB) CT. Insufficient data measurement in such a geometry induces CB artifacts in CT images. Development of an efficient algorithm to reduce this problem remains a major challenge. A backprojection-based method is proposed here. Each CB projection is analyzed in radon space via Grangeat's formula. Assuming the CB projection is taken from a parallel...
An X-ray system with a large area detector has high scatter-to-primary ratios (SPRs), which result in severe artifacts in reconstructed computed tomography (CT) images. A scatter correction algorithm is introduced that provides effective scatter correction but does not require additional patient exposure. The key hypothesis of the algorithm is that the high-frequency components of the X-ray spatial...
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.