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In order to quickly and accurately detect microaneurysms of diabetic retinopathy images, a specific method is proposed in this paper, which eliminates useless information based on overall threshold, computes the set of overall connection domain, and precisely orientates microaneurysms by local threshold segmentation and local connection domain identification. Experimental results testify the good...
For lung tissue adhesion of the situation in the lung CT images, based on the classical watershed algorithm, this introduce line-encoded ideology, use contour tracing method to determine adhesion region segmentation points, according to segment code to get the split line, thus separating the adhesion region. Experimental results show that this method will be effective in the lung adhesion region segmentation,...
We present a new frame of lung parenchyma segmentation. Optimal threshold value method and the boundary tracking method are used to get rid of the background interference and segment the lung region. Then new algorithm is used for lung region boundary repairing based on the mathematical morphology method. The experimental results show the new algorithm can segment lung regions from the chest CT images...
Ultrasound has shown a great potential for serving as an outcome measure for localized scleroderma. High spatial resolution of ultrasound will aid to evaluate Echogenicity, Vascularity index and tissue thickness of localized scleroderma. Echogenicity is higher when the ultrasound waves reflected are lesser in value from any particular body organ. Vascularity index can be defined as the differences...
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common brain tumor in children. There are four distinct subtypes of MB, but patients with anaplastic/large cell have the worst prognosis. Since the morbidity is highly correlated with treatment for MB, the ability to distinguish aggressive (such as anaplastic/large cell) MB is crucial. We present a scheme that leverages quantitative image texture features (Haar, Haralick,...
Collagen is believed to be one of the principal load bearing components of skin. This implies that deformation of collagen microfibrils play an important role in determining the extent of skin deformation under applied loads. We have developed a novel technique for generating internal strain maps of bundles of collagen microfibrils in the skin. The technique relies on digital image correlation (DIC)...
Nowadays The research of electrophysiology signal has attracted much attention in clinical discipline. Original experiment record of electrophysiology is significant for further research, especially for the study of Channelopathy. It is difficult to repeat this experiment because of the special cases or the restrictions of the experimental equipment and the cost of experiment. Therefore, it is necessary...
Introduction: Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs) is an image registration program that has been validated for analysis of several tissues, but not previously applied to the disc. The objectives of this study were to optimize ANTs for disc image registration and to validate ANTs strain measurements by comparison with Vic2D, a commercially available software previously applied to quantify disc strain,...
Collagen fibrils contribute to the structural integrity and crack resistance of bone, but their response to stress while in bundles of fibrils is not well known. Digital image correlation (DIC) is a powerful technique for measuring strain by comparing images of deformed samples to non-deformed samples, while second harmonic generation microscopy (SHGM) captures bright, high contrast images of bone...
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common brain tumor in children. Recent studies have demonstrated a relationship between specific signaling pathway abnormalities, a tendency to more favorable outcomes, and a histopathological feature: nodular growth patterns. In this work we present a new segmentation scheme which requires minimal user interaction to segment nodules on MB histopathological sections...
A new method based on the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Otsu method for blur detection in image sequences is proposed in this paper. In the first step, the standard deviation (STD) and the DCT coefficients are utilized to detect blurred and homogeneous areas in each image. Then, the Otsu method is used to calculate an adaptive threshold in each segment of the image sequence. Our experiments...
With the increased use of digital images in numerous fields, especially sensitive ones like medicine and military where confidentiality is extremely important, their encryption has become mandatory. This paper depicts our proposed digital image encryption technique which employs two types of non-linear pixel transformation and the traditional Hill cipher which is a Matrix Transformation (MT). While...
Melanoma can be cured if it is detected early, so early diagnosis is very important in dermatological practice today. Early and non-invasive diagnosis of melanomas can be done by accurate image segmentation of skin lesions. The medical images, while acquisition are generally bound to contain noise. This paper proposes a robust and efficient image segmentation algorithm using LOG edge detector to extract...
In this paper 2D Otsu algorithm based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to segment CT lung images. This method can extract pulmonary parenchyma from multisliced CT images, which is primary step to detect the pulmonary disease such as lung cancer, tumor, and mass cells. In the automated pulmonary disease diagnosis, image segmentation plays an important role and image analysis result...
This paper present the results of applying dark stretching technique to enhance and segment the Plasmodium Falciparum based on thick blood smear images. Image enhancement is the process to improve the quality (clarity) of images for human viewing. Removing blurring and noise, increasing contrast, and revealing details are examples of enhancement operations. Reducing the noise and blurring and increasing...
Microscopy cell image analysis is a fundamental tool for biological research. This analysis is used in studies of different aspects of cell cultures. The main challenges in segmenting nuclei in histometry are due to the fact that the specimen is a 2-D section of a 3-D tissue sample. The 2-D sectioning can result in partially imaged nuclei, sectioning of nuclei at odd angles, and damage due to the...
This paper attempts to develop an improved tool, which would read two dimensional (2D) cardiac MRI images and compute areas and volume of the scar tissue. Here the computation would be done on the cardiac MR images to quantify the extent of damage inflicted by myocardial infarction on the cardiac muscle (myocardium) using Interpolation.
Modern multislice computed tomography (CT) scanners produce isotropic CT images with a thickness of 0.6 mm. These CT images offer detailed information of lung cavities, which could be used for better surgical planning of treating lung cancer. The major challenge for developing a surgical planning system is the automatic segmentation of lung lobes by identifying the lobar fissures. This paper presents...
Ultrasound imaging is a widely used and safe medical diagnostic technique, due to its noninvasive nature, low cost, real time imaging. However the usefulness of ultrasound imaging is degraded by the presence of signal depended noise known as speckle.. The speckle pattern depends on the structure of the image tissue and various imaging parameters. There are two main purposes for speckle reduction in...
Human heart anatomy is the study of morphological structures and relationships between morphological structures. Hence such a study when visualized in the form of a two dimensional atlas can hold strong interactive sessions between doctors and medical students. Atlas is a visualization technique developed for understanding the morphological structures of a human body. Interacting directly with morphological...
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