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This paper briefly describes a left ventricle myocardium segmentation method in multi-slice computerized tomography images. The segmentation technique is based on level-sets deformable contours. The proposed method has two stages: in the first stage the left ventricle internal wall or endocardium is segmented. In the second stage the external wall is segmented starting with an initialization based...
In this work, a system based on a Bayesian approach, for the off-line recognition of handwritten arabic words, is proposed. Different structural features such as ascenders, descenders, loops and diacritic, are extracted from word's image, tacking into account the morphology of handwritten arabic words. For accurate features extraction, we proposed a novel method to estimate the word's baseline and...
Numerous depth extraction schemes cannot extract depth on textureless regions, thus generating sparse depth maps. In this paper, we propose using perception cues to improve the sparse depth map. We consider the local neighborhood as well the global surface properties of objects. We use this information to complement depth extraction schemes. The method is not scene or class specific. With quantitative...
At the present time, clustering algorithms are popular analysis tools in image segmentation. For instance, the K-means is one of the most used algorithms in the literature and it is fast, robust and easier to understand and to implement but, the main drawback of the K-means algorithm is that the number of clusters must be known a priori and must be supplied as an input parameter. This paper discusses...
In free-viewpoint television, high-quality depth maps are substantial for a virtual view synthesis for free navigation purposes. In this paper, we propose a new method of depth map quality improvement and resolution increase. Our method is intended for low resolution depth maps acquired through estimation using multiview video. The proposed depth map quality improvement is based on segmentation of...
In this paper we present a system for offline recognition cursive Arabic handwritten text based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). The system is analytical without explicit segmentation used embedded training to perform and enhance the character models. Extraction features preceded by baseline estimation are statistical and geometric to integrate both the peculiarities of the text and the pixel distribution...
Vector Flow Imaging (VFI) has received an increasing attention in the scientific field of ultrasound, as it enables angle independent visualization of blood flow. VFI can be used in volume flow estimation, but a vessel segmentation is needed to make it fully automatic. A novel vessel segmentation procedure is crucial for wall-to-wall visualization, automation of adjustments, and quantification of...
Restoring underwater image from a single image is known to be an ill-posed problem. Some assumptions made in previous methods are not suitable in many situations. In this paper, an effective method is proposed to restore underwater images. Using the quad-tree subdivision and graph-based segmentation, the global background light can be robustly estimated. The medium transmission map is estimated based...
Cutting out and object and estimate its transparency mask is a key task in many applications. We take on the work on closed-form matting by Levin et al.[1], that is used at the core of many matting techniques, and propose an alternative formulation that offers more flexible controls over the matting priors. We also show that this new approach is efficient at upscaling transparency maps from coarse...
In this work, we introduce a new fusion model whose objective is to fuse multiple region-based segmentation maps to get a final better segmentation result. This new fusion model is based on an energy function originated from the global consistency error (GCE), a perceptual measure which takes into account the inherent multiscale nature of an image segmentation by measuring the level of refinement...
Lens distortion self-calibration estimates the distortion model using arbitrary images captured by a camera. The estimated model is then used to rectify images taken with the same camera. These methods generally use the fact that built environments are line dominated and these lines correspond to lines on the image when distortion is not present. The proposed method starts by detecting groups of lines...
Detecting roads using monocular vision is a very challenging task as the detection algorithm must be able to deal with complex real-road scenes. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for general path segmentation. There are three main technical contributions of the approach. First, a path segmentation framework is presented, which formulates road detection as a Bayesian posteriori estimation problem...
This paper proposes a simple method of selecting effective brain local features for age estimation from T1-weighted MR images. We also employ the high-resolution AAL atlas, which is defined by 1,024 local regions, to improve the accuracy of age estimation. We evaluate performance of the proposed method using 1,099 T1-weighted images from a large-scale brain MR image database of healthy Japanese, and...
Bias field which existed in MR image had an unfavorable influence on analyzing medical image, especially for medical image segmentation. To solve it, this paper proposed an approach which is based on energy minimization to estimate bias field where exists in the MR image, finish brain tissue segmentation, meanwhile. This method fully utilize the properties of factual information and bias information...
Estimation of tooth axis is needed for some clinical dental treatment. Existing methods require to segment the tooth volume from Computed Tomography (CT) images, and then estimate the axis from the tooth volume. However, they may fail during estimating molar axis due to that the tooth segmentation from CT images is challenging and current segmentation methods may get poor segmentation results especially...
Corneal images acquired by in-vivo specular and confocal microscopy provide clinical information on the cornea endothelium health state. Indeed, the normal hexagonal shape of endothelial cells is usually affected by age and pathologies. At present, the analysis is based on manual or semi-automatic methods and the segmentation of a large number of endothelial cells is required for a meaningful estimation...
In a variety of injuries and illnesses, internal organs in the abdominal and pelvic regions, in particular liver, may be compromised. In the current practice, CT scans of liver are visually inspected to investigate the integrity of the organ. However, the size and complexity of the CT images limits the reliability of visual inspection to accurately assess the health of liver. Computer-aided image...
The intensity of the light observed from every position and direction in a real scene can be modeled as a highdimensional field, namely the plenoptic function. This field codes the radiance information as a function of space, orientation, wavelength, and time. In the scope of depth estimation, several strategies have been developed to obtain a representation of the spatial structure of a scene. However,...
The aim of the research is to present an approach of obstacle distance estimation and navigation for smart wheelchair. The smart wheelchair is an electric wheelchair equipped with camera and line laser to navigate and avoid an obstacle. The camera was used to capture images from the environment to sense the pathway condition. The line laser was used in combination with camera to recognize an obstacle...
Haze or fog jeopardizes both environment and image quality, which degrades the quality of subsequent computer vision algorithms. Recently haze removal method in image processing makes significant progress. The existing methods usually require complicated manual parameters setting according to the variance of input. Among them, dehazing method based on dark channel prior is considered to be the most...
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