This paper presents a morphological active contour ideal for vascular segmentation in biomedical images.
The unenhanced images of vessels and background are successfully segmented using a two-step
morphological active contour based upon Chan and Vese’s Active Contour without Edges. Using dilation
and erosion as an approximation of curve evolution, the contour provides an efficient, simple, and robust
alternative to solving partial differential equations used by traditional level-set Active Contour models. The
proposed method is demonstrated with segmented data set images and compared to results garnered from
multiphase Active Contour without Edges, morphological watershed, and Fuzzy C-means segmentations.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
Performance analysis of contourlet based hyperspectral image fusion methodijitjournal
Recently, contourlet transform has been widely used in hyperspectral image fusion due to its advantages,
such as high directionality and anisotropy; and studies show that the contourlet-based fusion methods
perform better than the existing conventional methods including wavelet-based fusion methods. Few studies
have been done to comparatively analyze the performance of contourlet-based fusion methods;
furthermore, no research has been done to analyze the contourlet-based fusion methods by focusing on
their unique transform mechanisms. In addition, no research has focused on the original contourlet
transform and its upgraded versions. In this paper, we investigate three different kinds of contourlet
transform: i) original contourlet transform, ii) nonsubsampled contourlet transform, iii) contourlet
transform with sharp frequency localization. The latter two transforms were developed to overcome the
major drawbacks of the original contourlet transform; so it is necessary and beneficial to see how they
perform in the context of hyperspectral image fusion. The results of our comparative analysis show that the
latter two transforms perform better than the original contourlet transform in terms of increasing spatial
resolution and preserving spectral information.
Image fusion is a technique of
intertwining at least two pictures of same scene to
shape single melded picture which shows indispensable
data in the melded picture. Picture combination
system is utilized for expelling clamor from the
pictures. Commotion is an undesirable material which
crumbles the nature of a picture influencing the
lucidity of a picture. Clamor can be of different kinds,
for example, Gaussian commotion, motivation clamor,
uniform commotion and so forth. Pictures degenerate
some of the time amid securing or transmission or
because of blame memory areas in the equipment.
Picture combination should be possible at three
dimensions, for example, pixel level combination,
highlight level combination and choice dimension
combination. There are essentially two kinds of picture
combination methods which are spatial area
combination systems and transient space combination
procedures. (PCA) combination, Normal strategy, high
pass sifting are spatial area techniques and strategies
which incorporate change, for example, Discrete
Cosine Transform, Discrete wavelet change are
transient space combination strategies. There are
different techniques for picture combination which
have numerous favorable circumstances and
detriments. Numerous procedures experience the ill
effects of the issue of shading curios that comes in the
intertwined picture shaped. Also, the Cyclopean One
of the most astonishing properties of human stereo
vision is the combination of the left and right
perspectives of a scene into a solitary cyclopean one.
Under typical survey conditions, the world shows up as
observed from a virtual eye set halfway between the
left and right eye positions. The apparent picture of
the world is never recorded specifically by any tangible
exhibit, however developed by our neural equipment.
The term cyclopean alludes to a type of visual
upgrades that is characterized by binocular
dissimilarity alone. He suspected that stereo-psis may
find concealed articles, this may be helpful to discover
disguised items. The critical part of this examination
when utilizing arbitrary dab stereo-grams was that
uniqueness is adequate for stereo-psis, and where had
just demonstrated that binocular difference was vital
for stereo-psis.
REGION CLASSIFICATION BASED IMAGE DENOISING USING SHEARLET AND WAVELET TRANSF...csandit
This paper proposes a neural network based region classification technique that classifies
regions in an image into two classes: textures and homogenous regions. The classification is
based on training a neural network with statistical parameters belonging to the regions of
interest. An application of this classification method is applied in image denoising by applying
different transforms to the two different classes. Texture is denoised by shearlets while
homogenous regions are denoised by wavelets. The denoised results show better performance
than either of the transforms applied independently. The proposed algorithm successfully
reduces the mean square error of the denoised result and provides perceptually good results.
The document presents a new method for segmenting MR brain images that combines a hidden Markov random field (HMRF) model with a hybrid metaheuristic optimization algorithm. The HMRF model uses adaptive parameters to balance contributions from different tissue classes during segmentation. The hybrid metaheuristic algorithm improves the quality of solutions during HMRF optimization by combining the cuckoo search and particle swarm optimization algorithms. Experimental results on simulated and real MR brain images show the proposed method achieves satisfactory segmentation performance for images with noise and intensity inhomogeneity.
Adaptive Multiscale Stereo Images Matching Based on Wavelet Transform Modulus...CSCJournals
In this paper we propose a multiscale stereo correspondence matching method based on wavelets transform modulus maxima. Exploitation of maxima modulus chains has given us the opportunity to refine the search for corresponding. Based on the wavelet transform we construct maps of modules and phases for different scales, then extracted the maxima and then we build chains of maxima. Points constituents maxima modulus chains will be considered as points of interest in matching processes. The availability of all its multiscale information, allows searching under geometric constraints, for each point of interest in the left image corresponding one of the best points of constituent chains of the right image. The experiment results demonstrate that the number of corresponding has a very clear decrease when the scale increases. In several tests we obtained the uniqueness of the corresponding by browsing through the fine to coarse scales and calculations remain very reasonable. Abdelhak EZZINE aezzine@uae.ac.ma 39 imm serghiniya Rue liban ENSAT/ SIC/LABTIC Abdelmalek ESSAADI University Tangier, 99000, Morocco
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for detecting moving objects in videos using background subtraction and morphological techniques. The method establishes a reliable background updating model and uses dynamic thresholding to obtain a more complete segmentation of moving objects. The algorithm is implemented on a Microblaze soft processor in VHDL and tested on a Spartan-3 FPGA board. Experimental results show the area and speed of the algorithm. In conclusion, the proposed method allows inherently parallel processing of video frames and can improve detection accuracy by operating at the region level using morphological operations.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient.
Performance analysis of contourlet based hyperspectral image fusion methodijitjournal
Recently, contourlet transform has been widely used in hyperspectral image fusion due to its advantages,
such as high directionality and anisotropy; and studies show that the contourlet-based fusion methods
perform better than the existing conventional methods including wavelet-based fusion methods. Few studies
have been done to comparatively analyze the performance of contourlet-based fusion methods;
furthermore, no research has been done to analyze the contourlet-based fusion methods by focusing on
their unique transform mechanisms. In addition, no research has focused on the original contourlet
transform and its upgraded versions. In this paper, we investigate three different kinds of contourlet
transform: i) original contourlet transform, ii) nonsubsampled contourlet transform, iii) contourlet
transform with sharp frequency localization. The latter two transforms were developed to overcome the
major drawbacks of the original contourlet transform; so it is necessary and beneficial to see how they
perform in the context of hyperspectral image fusion. The results of our comparative analysis show that the
latter two transforms perform better than the original contourlet transform in terms of increasing spatial
resolution and preserving spectral information.
Image fusion is a technique of
intertwining at least two pictures of same scene to
shape single melded picture which shows indispensable
data in the melded picture. Picture combination
system is utilized for expelling clamor from the
pictures. Commotion is an undesirable material which
crumbles the nature of a picture influencing the
lucidity of a picture. Clamor can be of different kinds,
for example, Gaussian commotion, motivation clamor,
uniform commotion and so forth. Pictures degenerate
some of the time amid securing or transmission or
because of blame memory areas in the equipment.
Picture combination should be possible at three
dimensions, for example, pixel level combination,
highlight level combination and choice dimension
combination. There are essentially two kinds of picture
combination methods which are spatial area
combination systems and transient space combination
procedures. (PCA) combination, Normal strategy, high
pass sifting are spatial area techniques and strategies
which incorporate change, for example, Discrete
Cosine Transform, Discrete wavelet change are
transient space combination strategies. There are
different techniques for picture combination which
have numerous favorable circumstances and
detriments. Numerous procedures experience the ill
effects of the issue of shading curios that comes in the
intertwined picture shaped. Also, the Cyclopean One
of the most astonishing properties of human stereo
vision is the combination of the left and right
perspectives of a scene into a solitary cyclopean one.
Under typical survey conditions, the world shows up as
observed from a virtual eye set halfway between the
left and right eye positions. The apparent picture of
the world is never recorded specifically by any tangible
exhibit, however developed by our neural equipment.
The term cyclopean alludes to a type of visual
upgrades that is characterized by binocular
dissimilarity alone. He suspected that stereo-psis may
find concealed articles, this may be helpful to discover
disguised items. The critical part of this examination
when utilizing arbitrary dab stereo-grams was that
uniqueness is adequate for stereo-psis, and where had
just demonstrated that binocular difference was vital
for stereo-psis.
REGION CLASSIFICATION BASED IMAGE DENOISING USING SHEARLET AND WAVELET TRANSF...csandit
This paper proposes a neural network based region classification technique that classifies
regions in an image into two classes: textures and homogenous regions. The classification is
based on training a neural network with statistical parameters belonging to the regions of
interest. An application of this classification method is applied in image denoising by applying
different transforms to the two different classes. Texture is denoised by shearlets while
homogenous regions are denoised by wavelets. The denoised results show better performance
than either of the transforms applied independently. The proposed algorithm successfully
reduces the mean square error of the denoised result and provides perceptually good results.
The document presents a new method for segmenting MR brain images that combines a hidden Markov random field (HMRF) model with a hybrid metaheuristic optimization algorithm. The HMRF model uses adaptive parameters to balance contributions from different tissue classes during segmentation. The hybrid metaheuristic algorithm improves the quality of solutions during HMRF optimization by combining the cuckoo search and particle swarm optimization algorithms. Experimental results on simulated and real MR brain images show the proposed method achieves satisfactory segmentation performance for images with noise and intensity inhomogeneity.
Adaptive Multiscale Stereo Images Matching Based on Wavelet Transform Modulus...CSCJournals
In this paper we propose a multiscale stereo correspondence matching method based on wavelets transform modulus maxima. Exploitation of maxima modulus chains has given us the opportunity to refine the search for corresponding. Based on the wavelet transform we construct maps of modules and phases for different scales, then extracted the maxima and then we build chains of maxima. Points constituents maxima modulus chains will be considered as points of interest in matching processes. The availability of all its multiscale information, allows searching under geometric constraints, for each point of interest in the left image corresponding one of the best points of constituent chains of the right image. The experiment results demonstrate that the number of corresponding has a very clear decrease when the scale increases. In several tests we obtained the uniqueness of the corresponding by browsing through the fine to coarse scales and calculations remain very reasonable. Abdelhak EZZINE aezzine@uae.ac.ma 39 imm serghiniya Rue liban ENSAT/ SIC/LABTIC Abdelmalek ESSAADI University Tangier, 99000, Morocco
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for detecting moving objects in videos using background subtraction and morphological techniques. The method establishes a reliable background updating model and uses dynamic thresholding to obtain a more complete segmentation of moving objects. The algorithm is implemented on a Microblaze soft processor in VHDL and tested on a Spartan-3 FPGA board. Experimental results show the area and speed of the algorithm. In conclusion, the proposed method allows inherently parallel processing of video frames and can improve detection accuracy by operating at the region level using morphological operations.
Level set methods are a popular way to solve the image segmentation problem. The solution contour is found by solving an optimization problem where a cost functional is minimized. The purpose of this paper is the level set approach to simultaneous tissue segmentation and bias correction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. A modified level set approach to joint segmentation and bias correction of images with intensity in homogeneity. A sliding window is used to transform the gradient intensity domain to another domain, where the distribution overlap between different tissues is significantly suppressed. Tissue segmentation and bias correction are simultaneously achieved via a multiphase level set evolution process. The proposed methods are very robust to initialization, and are directly compatible with any type of level set implementation. Experiments on images of various modalities demonstrated the superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.
Hybrid medical image compression method using quincunx wavelet and geometric ...journalBEEI
The purpose of this article is to find an efficient and optimal method of compression by reducing the file size while retaining the information for a good quality processing and to produce credible pathological reports, based on the extraction of the information characteristics contained in medical images. In this article, we proposed a novel medical image compression that combines geometric active contour model and quincunx wavelet transform. In this method it is necessary to localize the region of interest, where we tried to localize all the part that contain the pathological, using the level set for an optimal reduction, then we use the quincunx wavelet coupled with the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm. After testing several algorithms we noticed that the proposed method gives satisfactory results. The comparison of the experimental results is based on parameters of evaluation.
Visual tracking using particle swarm optimizationcsandit
The problem of robust extraction of visual odometry from a sequence of images obtained by an
eye in hand camera configuration is addressed. A novel approach toward solving planar
template based tracking is proposed which performs a non-linear image alignment for
successful retrieval of camera transformations. In order to obtain global optimum a biometaheuristic
is used for optimization of similarity among the planar regions. The proposed
method is validated on image sequences with real as well as synthetic transformations and
found to be resilient to intensity variations. A comparative analysis of the various similarity
measures as well as various state-of-art methods reveal that the algorithm succeeds in tracking
the planar regions robustly and has good potential to be used in real applications.
A Novel Multiple-kernel based Fuzzy c-means Algorithm with Spatial Informatio...CSCJournals
Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm has proved its effectiveness for image segmentation. However, still it lacks in getting robustness to noise and outliers, especially in the absence of prior knowledge of the noise. To overcome this problem, a generalized a novel multiple-kernel fuzzy cmeans (FCM) (NMKFCM) methodology with spatial information is introduced as a framework for image-segmentation problem. The algorithm utilizes the spatial neighborhood membership values in the standard kernels are used in the kernel FCM (KFCM) algorithm and modifies the membership weighting of each cluster. The proposed NMKFCM algorithm provides a new flexibility to utilize different pixel information in image-segmentation problem. The proposed algorithm is applied to brain MRI which degraded by Gaussian noise and Salt-Pepper noise. The proposed algorithm performs more robust to noise than other existing image segmentation algorithms from FCM family.
This document summarizes an automatic left ventricle segmentation technique using iterative thresholding and an active contour model adapted for short-axis cardiac MRI images. It begins with background on image segmentation and its applications. Then, it reviews related work on cardiac segmentation techniques and their limitations. The proposed method segments the endocardium using iterative thresholding and the epicardium using an active contour model. It estimates blood and myocardial intensities, applies region growing to segment the endocardium in each slice, and propagates the segmentation to remaining slices. Finally, it measures left ventricle volume and compares the results to manual segmentation.
This paper proposes a novel technique for detecting point landmarks in 3D medical images based on phase congruency (PC). A bank of 3D log-Gabor filters is used to compute energy maps from the images. These energy maps are combined to form the PC measure, which is invariant to intensity variations and provides good feature localization. Significant 3D point landmarks are detected by analyzing the eigenvectors of PC moments computed at each point. The method is demonstrated on head and neck images for radiation therapy planning.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
This paper proposes a new method for visual segmentation based on fixation points. The method segments the region of interest in two steps: (1) generating a probabilistic boundary edge map combining multiple visual cues, and (2) finding the optimal closed contour around the fixation point in the transformed polar edge map. The paper shows this fixation-based segmentation approach improves accuracy over previous methods, especially when incorporating motion and stereo cues. It also introduces a region merging algorithm to further refine segmentation results. Evaluation on video and stereo image datasets demonstrates mean F-measures of 0.95 and 0.96 respectively when combining cues, compared to 0.62 and 0.65 without.
Effect of sub classes on the accuracy of the classified imageiaemedu
This document discusses image classification techniques in remote sensing. It begins with an overview of the need for geometric corrections and rectification of satellite images to account for distortions. It then describes supervised and unsupervised classification methods for extracting land cover information from images. Supervised classification involves using training data to classify pixels, while unsupervised classification groups pixels into spectral classes based on natural clusters. The maximum likelihood algorithm assumes normal distributions and assigns pixels to the most probable class. Classification accuracy is assessed using an error matrix to evaluate omission and commission errors between the classified and reference maps. Increasing the number of classes in a classified image can reduce accuracy by making spectral distinctions between classes less clear.
Study on Reconstruction Accuracy using shapiness index of morphological trans...ijcseit
Basin, lakes, and pore-grain space are important geophysical shapes, which can fit with the several
classical and fractal binary shapes, are processed by employing morphological transformations, and
methods. The decomposition of skeleton network (minimum morphological information) using various
classical structures like square, octagon and rhombus. Then derive the dilated subsets respective degree by
the structures for reconstruct the original image. Through shapiness index of pattern spectrum procedure,
we try test the reconstruction accuracy in a quantitative manner. It gives some general procedure to
characterise the shape-size complexity of surface water body. The reconstruction accuracy is against the
size of water bodies with which we produce the some example of different shapiness index for different
structuring element of shapes. In which quantitative manner approach yields better reconstruction level.
The complexity of water bodies are compared with the surfaces.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a novel approach for enhancing digital images using morphological operators. The approach aims to improve contrast in images with poor lighting conditions. It uses two morphological operators based on Weber's law - the first employs blocked analysis while the second uses opening by reconstruction to define a multi-background. The performance of the proposed operators is evaluated on images with various backgrounds and lighting conditions. Key steps include dividing images into blocks, estimating minimum/maximum intensities in each block to determine background criteria, and applying contrast enhancement transformations based on the criteria. Opening by reconstruction is also used to approximate image background without modifying structures. Experimental results demonstrate the approach enhances images with poor lighting.
The document describes a method for tracking objects of deformable shapes in images. It proposes representing the matching of a deformable template to an image as a minimum cost cyclic path in a product space of the template and image. An energy functional is introduced that consists of a data term favoring strong image gradients, a shape consistency term favoring similar tangent angles, and an elastic penalty. Optimization is performed using a minimum ratio cycle algorithm parallelized on GPUs. This provides efficient, pixel-accurate segmentation and correspondence between template and image curve. The method can be extended to 4D to segment and track multiple deformable anatomical structures in medical images.
A NOVEL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE BASED ON ACTIVE CONTOUR AND...acijjournal
This document summarizes a novel image segmentation technique based on active contours and topological alignments. The technique aims to improve boundary detection by incorporating the advantages of both active contours and topological alignments. It presents a two-step algorithm: 1) Initial segmentation is performed using topological alignments to improve cell tracking results. 2) The output is transformed into the input for an active contour model, which evolves toward cell boundaries for analysis of cell mobility. Tests on 70 grayscale cell images showed the technique achieved better segmentation and boundary detection compared to active contours alone, including for low contrast images and cases of under/over-segmentation.
adaptive metric learning for saliency detection base paperSuresh Nagalla
This document proposes an adaptive metric learning algorithm (AML) for visual saliency detection. AML learns two complementary distance metrics: 1) a generic metric (GML) that considers the global distribution of training data, and 2) a specific metric (SML) that considers the structure of individual images. GML and SML are combined to better distinguish salient objects from background. The algorithm also uses superpixel-wise Fisher vector coding of low-level features to enhance saliency detection performance. Experimental results show the proposed AML approach outperforms other state-of-the-art saliency detection methods.
Medical Image Segmentation Based on Level Set MethodIOSR Journals
This document presents a new medical image segmentation technique based on the level set method. The technique uses a combination of thresholding, morphological erosion, and a variational level set method. Thresholding is applied to determine object pixels, followed by optional erosion to remove small fragments. Then a variational level set method is applied on the original image to evaluate the contour and segment objects. The technique is tested on various medical images and provides good segmentation results, though it struggles with complex images containing multiple distinct objects.
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The document discusses energy aware image retargeting using discrete image ambili jose. It proposes using seam carving to resize images while preserving important content. Seam carving works by identifying low-importance paths of pixels (seams) that can be removed to reduce image size. Straight lines in images can become distorted during resizing, so the algorithm is improved to modify the energy map to encourage seams to avoid intersecting straight lines in adjacent positions. The enhanced seam carving approach better preserves straight lines and limits distortions during image resizing compared to regular seam carving.
Adaptive Thresholding Using Quadratic Cost FunctionsCSCJournals
This algorithm seeks to create a thresholding surface (also referred to as an active surface) derived from the initial image topology by means which minimize the image gradient, resulting in a smoothed image which can be used for adaptive thresholding. Unlike approaches which interpolate through points usually associated with high gradient values, each image point is uniquely characterized by a quadratic cost function determined by the gradient at that point along with a constraining potential determined by the image intensity. Minimization is achieved by allowing each point to deviate from its initial value so as to minimize the gradient, as balanced by a constraining potential which seeks to minimize the amount of deviation. The cost function also contains terms which cause the gradient of the thresholding surface to closely parallel those of the image in regions of near uniform intensity (where the absolute values of the gradients are small). This is done to reduce the effects of ghosting (or false segmenting) when thresholding, an important feature of this approach. Image binarization is achieved by comparing the values of the original image points with those of the thresholding surface; values above a given threshold are considered part of the foreground, while those below are considered part of the background.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low
computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active
contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is
coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By
using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low
computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation
techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and
robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and
report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient
ROLE OF HYBRID LEVEL SET IN FETAL CONTOUR EXTRACTIONsipij
Image processing technologies may be employed for quicker and accurate diagnosis in analysis and
feature extraction of medical images. Here, existing level set algorithm is modified and it is employed for
extracting contour of fetus in an image. In traditional approach, fetal parameters are extracted manually
from ultrasound images. An automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain fetal biometric measurements
due to some problems in traditional approach such as lack of consistency and accuracy. The proposed
approach utilizes global & local region information for fetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images.
The main goal of this research is to develop a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction.
Role of Hybrid Level Set in Fetal Contour Extractionsipij
Image processing technologies may be employed for quicker and accurate diagnosis in analysis and
feature extraction of medical images. Here, existing level set algorithm is modified and it is employed for
extracting contour of fetus in an image. In traditional approach, fetal parameters are extracted manually
from ultrasound images. An automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain fetal biometric measurements
due to some problems in traditional approach such as lack of consistency and accuracy. The proposed
approach utilizes global & local region information for fetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images.
The main goal of this research is to develop a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction.
An efficient image segmentation approach through enhanced watershed algorithmAlexander Decker
This document proposes an efficient image segmentation approach combining an enhanced watershed algorithm and color histogram analysis. The watershed algorithm is applied to preprocessed images after merging the results with an enhanced edge detection. Over-segmentation issues are addressed through a post-processing step applying color histogram analysis to each segmented region, improving overall performance. The document provides background on image segmentation techniques, reviews related work applying watershed algorithms, and discusses challenges like over-segmentation that watershed approaches can face.
A Comparative Study of Wavelet and Curvelet Transform for Image DenoisingIOSR Journals
Abstract : This paper describes a comparison of the discriminating power of the various multiresolution based thresholding techniques i.e., Wavelet, curve let for image denoising.Curvelet transform offer exact reconstruction, stability against perturbation, ease of implementation and low computational complexity. We propose to employ curve let for facial feature extraction and perform a thorough comparison against wavelet transform; especially, the orientation of curve let is analysed. Experiments show that for expression changes, the small scale coefficients of curve let transform are robust, though the large scale coefficients of both transform are likely influenced. The reason behind the advantages of curvelet lies in its abilities of sparse representation that are critical for compression, estimation of images which are denoised and its inverse problems, thus the experiments and theoretical analysis coincide . Keywords: Curvelet transform, Face recognition, Feature extraction, Sparse representation Thresholding rules,Wavelet transform..
Level set methods are a popular way to solve the image segmentation problem. The solution contour is found by solving an optimization problem where a cost functional is minimized. The purpose of this paper is the level set approach to simultaneous tissue segmentation and bias correction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. A modified level set approach to joint segmentation and bias correction of images with intensity in homogeneity. A sliding window is used to transform the gradient intensity domain to another domain, where the distribution overlap between different tissues is significantly suppressed. Tissue segmentation and bias correction are simultaneously achieved via a multiphase level set evolution process. The proposed methods are very robust to initialization, and are directly compatible with any type of level set implementation. Experiments on images of various modalities demonstrated the superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.
Hybrid medical image compression method using quincunx wavelet and geometric ...journalBEEI
The purpose of this article is to find an efficient and optimal method of compression by reducing the file size while retaining the information for a good quality processing and to produce credible pathological reports, based on the extraction of the information characteristics contained in medical images. In this article, we proposed a novel medical image compression that combines geometric active contour model and quincunx wavelet transform. In this method it is necessary to localize the region of interest, where we tried to localize all the part that contain the pathological, using the level set for an optimal reduction, then we use the quincunx wavelet coupled with the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm. After testing several algorithms we noticed that the proposed method gives satisfactory results. The comparison of the experimental results is based on parameters of evaluation.
Visual tracking using particle swarm optimizationcsandit
The problem of robust extraction of visual odometry from a sequence of images obtained by an
eye in hand camera configuration is addressed. A novel approach toward solving planar
template based tracking is proposed which performs a non-linear image alignment for
successful retrieval of camera transformations. In order to obtain global optimum a biometaheuristic
is used for optimization of similarity among the planar regions. The proposed
method is validated on image sequences with real as well as synthetic transformations and
found to be resilient to intensity variations. A comparative analysis of the various similarity
measures as well as various state-of-art methods reveal that the algorithm succeeds in tracking
the planar regions robustly and has good potential to be used in real applications.
A Novel Multiple-kernel based Fuzzy c-means Algorithm with Spatial Informatio...CSCJournals
Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm has proved its effectiveness for image segmentation. However, still it lacks in getting robustness to noise and outliers, especially in the absence of prior knowledge of the noise. To overcome this problem, a generalized a novel multiple-kernel fuzzy cmeans (FCM) (NMKFCM) methodology with spatial information is introduced as a framework for image-segmentation problem. The algorithm utilizes the spatial neighborhood membership values in the standard kernels are used in the kernel FCM (KFCM) algorithm and modifies the membership weighting of each cluster. The proposed NMKFCM algorithm provides a new flexibility to utilize different pixel information in image-segmentation problem. The proposed algorithm is applied to brain MRI which degraded by Gaussian noise and Salt-Pepper noise. The proposed algorithm performs more robust to noise than other existing image segmentation algorithms from FCM family.
This document summarizes an automatic left ventricle segmentation technique using iterative thresholding and an active contour model adapted for short-axis cardiac MRI images. It begins with background on image segmentation and its applications. Then, it reviews related work on cardiac segmentation techniques and their limitations. The proposed method segments the endocardium using iterative thresholding and the epicardium using an active contour model. It estimates blood and myocardial intensities, applies region growing to segment the endocardium in each slice, and propagates the segmentation to remaining slices. Finally, it measures left ventricle volume and compares the results to manual segmentation.
This paper proposes a novel technique for detecting point landmarks in 3D medical images based on phase congruency (PC). A bank of 3D log-Gabor filters is used to compute energy maps from the images. These energy maps are combined to form the PC measure, which is invariant to intensity variations and provides good feature localization. Significant 3D point landmarks are detected by analyzing the eigenvectors of PC moments computed at each point. The method is demonstrated on head and neck images for radiation therapy planning.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
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Effect of sub classes on the accuracy of the classified imageiaemedu
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Study on Reconstruction Accuracy using shapiness index of morphological trans...ijcseit
Basin, lakes, and pore-grain space are important geophysical shapes, which can fit with the several
classical and fractal binary shapes, are processed by employing morphological transformations, and
methods. The decomposition of skeleton network (minimum morphological information) using various
classical structures like square, octagon and rhombus. Then derive the dilated subsets respective degree by
the structures for reconstruct the original image. Through shapiness index of pattern spectrum procedure,
we try test the reconstruction accuracy in a quantitative manner. It gives some general procedure to
characterise the shape-size complexity of surface water body. The reconstruction accuracy is against the
size of water bodies with which we produce the some example of different shapiness index for different
structuring element of shapes. In which quantitative manner approach yields better reconstruction level.
The complexity of water bodies are compared with the surfaces.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a novel approach for enhancing digital images using morphological operators. The approach aims to improve contrast in images with poor lighting conditions. It uses two morphological operators based on Weber's law - the first employs blocked analysis while the second uses opening by reconstruction to define a multi-background. The performance of the proposed operators is evaluated on images with various backgrounds and lighting conditions. Key steps include dividing images into blocks, estimating minimum/maximum intensities in each block to determine background criteria, and applying contrast enhancement transformations based on the criteria. Opening by reconstruction is also used to approximate image background without modifying structures. Experimental results demonstrate the approach enhances images with poor lighting.
The document describes a method for tracking objects of deformable shapes in images. It proposes representing the matching of a deformable template to an image as a minimum cost cyclic path in a product space of the template and image. An energy functional is introduced that consists of a data term favoring strong image gradients, a shape consistency term favoring similar tangent angles, and an elastic penalty. Optimization is performed using a minimum ratio cycle algorithm parallelized on GPUs. This provides efficient, pixel-accurate segmentation and correspondence between template and image curve. The method can be extended to 4D to segment and track multiple deformable anatomical structures in medical images.
A NOVEL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE BASED ON ACTIVE CONTOUR AND...acijjournal
This document summarizes a novel image segmentation technique based on active contours and topological alignments. The technique aims to improve boundary detection by incorporating the advantages of both active contours and topological alignments. It presents a two-step algorithm: 1) Initial segmentation is performed using topological alignments to improve cell tracking results. 2) The output is transformed into the input for an active contour model, which evolves toward cell boundaries for analysis of cell mobility. Tests on 70 grayscale cell images showed the technique achieved better segmentation and boundary detection compared to active contours alone, including for low contrast images and cases of under/over-segmentation.
adaptive metric learning for saliency detection base paperSuresh Nagalla
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Medical Image Segmentation Based on Level Set MethodIOSR Journals
This document presents a new medical image segmentation technique based on the level set method. The technique uses a combination of thresholding, morphological erosion, and a variational level set method. Thresholding is applied to determine object pixels, followed by optional erosion to remove small fragments. Then a variational level set method is applied on the original image to evaluate the contour and segment objects. The technique is tested on various medical images and provides good segmentation results, though it struggles with complex images containing multiple distinct objects.
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The document discusses energy aware image retargeting using discrete image ambili jose. It proposes using seam carving to resize images while preserving important content. Seam carving works by identifying low-importance paths of pixels (seams) that can be removed to reduce image size. Straight lines in images can become distorted during resizing, so the algorithm is improved to modify the energy map to encourage seams to avoid intersecting straight lines in adjacent positions. The enhanced seam carving approach better preserves straight lines and limits distortions during image resizing compared to regular seam carving.
Adaptive Thresholding Using Quadratic Cost FunctionsCSCJournals
This algorithm seeks to create a thresholding surface (also referred to as an active surface) derived from the initial image topology by means which minimize the image gradient, resulting in a smoothed image which can be used for adaptive thresholding. Unlike approaches which interpolate through points usually associated with high gradient values, each image point is uniquely characterized by a quadratic cost function determined by the gradient at that point along with a constraining potential determined by the image intensity. Minimization is achieved by allowing each point to deviate from its initial value so as to minimize the gradient, as balanced by a constraining potential which seeks to minimize the amount of deviation. The cost function also contains terms which cause the gradient of the thresholding surface to closely parallel those of the image in regions of near uniform intensity (where the absolute values of the gradients are small). This is done to reduce the effects of ghosting (or false segmenting) when thresholding, an important feature of this approach. Image binarization is achieved by comparing the values of the original image points with those of the thresholding surface; values above a given threshold are considered part of the foreground, while those below are considered part of the background.
A HYBRID MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR NATURAL IMAGESIJCSEA Journal
Morphological active contours for image segmentation have become popular due to their low
computational complexity coupled with their accurate approximation of the partial differential equations
involved in the energy minimization of the segmentation process. In this paper, a morphological active
contour which mimics the energy minimization of the popular Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges is
coupled with a morphological edge-driven segmentation term to accurately segment natural images. By
using morphological approximations of the energy minimization steps, the algorithm has a low
computational complexity. Additionally, the coupling of the edge-based and region-based segmentation
techniques allows the proposed method to be robust and accurate. We will demonstrate the accuracy and
robustness of the algorithm using images from the Weizmann Segmentation Evaluation Database and
report on the segmentation results using the Sorensen-Dice similarity coefficient
ROLE OF HYBRID LEVEL SET IN FETAL CONTOUR EXTRACTIONsipij
Image processing technologies may be employed for quicker and accurate diagnosis in analysis and
feature extraction of medical images. Here, existing level set algorithm is modified and it is employed for
extracting contour of fetus in an image. In traditional approach, fetal parameters are extracted manually
from ultrasound images. An automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain fetal biometric measurements
due to some problems in traditional approach such as lack of consistency and accuracy. The proposed
approach utilizes global & local region information for fetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images.
The main goal of this research is to develop a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction.
Role of Hybrid Level Set in Fetal Contour Extractionsipij
Image processing technologies may be employed for quicker and accurate diagnosis in analysis and
feature extraction of medical images. Here, existing level set algorithm is modified and it is employed for
extracting contour of fetus in an image. In traditional approach, fetal parameters are extracted manually
from ultrasound images. An automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain fetal biometric measurements
due to some problems in traditional approach such as lack of consistency and accuracy. The proposed
approach utilizes global & local region information for fetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images.
The main goal of this research is to develop a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction.
An efficient image segmentation approach through enhanced watershed algorithmAlexander Decker
This document proposes an efficient image segmentation approach combining an enhanced watershed algorithm and color histogram analysis. The watershed algorithm is applied to preprocessed images after merging the results with an enhanced edge detection. Over-segmentation issues are addressed through a post-processing step applying color histogram analysis to each segmented region, improving overall performance. The document provides background on image segmentation techniques, reviews related work applying watershed algorithms, and discusses challenges like over-segmentation that watershed approaches can face.
A Comparative Study of Wavelet and Curvelet Transform for Image DenoisingIOSR Journals
Abstract : This paper describes a comparison of the discriminating power of the various multiresolution based thresholding techniques i.e., Wavelet, curve let for image denoising.Curvelet transform offer exact reconstruction, stability against perturbation, ease of implementation and low computational complexity. We propose to employ curve let for facial feature extraction and perform a thorough comparison against wavelet transform; especially, the orientation of curve let is analysed. Experiments show that for expression changes, the small scale coefficients of curve let transform are robust, though the large scale coefficients of both transform are likely influenced. The reason behind the advantages of curvelet lies in its abilities of sparse representation that are critical for compression, estimation of images which are denoised and its inverse problems, thus the experiments and theoretical analysis coincide . Keywords: Curvelet transform, Face recognition, Feature extraction, Sparse representation Thresholding rules,Wavelet transform..
Adaptive segmentation algorithm based on level set model in medical imagingTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
For image segmentation, level set models are frequently employed. It offer best solution to overcome the main limitations of deformable parametric models. However, the challenge when applying those models in medical images stills deal with removing blurs in image edges which directly affects the edge indicator function, leads to not adaptively segmenting images and causes a wrong analysis of pathologies wich prevents to conclude a correct diagnosis. To overcome such issues, an effective process is suggested by simultaneously modelling and solving systems’ two-dimensional partial differential equations (PDE). The first PDE equation allows restoration using Euler’s equation similar to an anisotropic smoothing based on a regularized Perona and Malik filter that eliminates noise while preserving edge information in accordance with detected contours in the second equation that segments the image based on the first equation solutions. This approach allows developing a new algorithm which overcome the studied model drawbacks. Results of the proposed method give clear segments that can be applied to any application. Experiments on many medical images in particular blurry images with high information losses, demonstrate that the developed approach produces superior segmentation results in terms of quantity and quality compared to other models already presented in previeous works.
Perceptual Weights Based On Local Energy For Image Quality AssessmentCSCJournals
This paper proposes an image quality metric that can effectively measure the quality of an image that correlates well with human judgment on the appearance of the image. The present work adds a new dimension to the structural approach based full-reference image quality assessment for gray scale images. The proposed method assigns more weight to the distortions present in the visual regions of interest of the reference (original) image than to the distortions present in the other regions of the image, referred to as perceptual weights. The perceptual features and their weights are computed based on the local energy modeling of the original image. The proposed model is validated using the image database provided by LIVE (Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin) based on the evaluation metrics as suggested in the video quality experts group (VQEG) Phase I FR-TV test.
Global threshold and region based active contour model for accurate image seg...sipij
In this contribution, we develop a novel global threshold-based active contour model. This model deploys a new
edge-stopping function to control the direction of the evolution and to stop the evolving contour at weak or
blurred edges. An implementation of the model requires the use of selective binary and Gaussian filtering
regularized level set (SBGFRLS) method. The method uses either a selective local or global segmentation
property. It penalizes the level set function to force it to become a binary function. This procedure is followed by
using a regularisation Gaussian. The Gaussian filters smooth the level set function and stabilises the evolution
process. One of the merits of our proposed model stems from the ability to initialise the contour anywhere inside
the image to extract object boundaries. The proposed method is found to perform well, notably when the
intensities inside and outside the object are homogenous. Our method is applied with satisfactory results on
various types of images, including synthetic, medical and Arabic-characters images.
Super-resolution (SR) is the process of obtaining a high resolution (HR) image or
a sequence of HR images from a set of low resolution (LR) observations. The block
matching algorithms used for motion estimation to obtain motion vectors between the
frames in Super-resolution. The implementation and comparison of two different types of
block matching algorithms viz. Exhaustive Search (ES) and Spiral Search (SS) are
discussed. Advantages of each algorithm are given in terms of motion estimation
computational complexity and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The Spiral Search
algorithm achieves PSNR close to that of Exhaustive Search at less computation time than
that of Exhaustive Search. The algorithms that are evaluated in this paper are widely used
in video super-resolution and also have been used in implementing various video standards
like H.263, MPEG4, H.264.
Medial Axis Transformation based Skeletonzation of Image Patterns using Image...IOSR Journals
1) The document discusses extracting the medial axis transform (MAT) of an image pattern using the Euclidean distance transform. The image is first converted to binary, then the Euclidean distance transform is used to compute the distance of each non-zero pixel to the closest zero pixel.
2) The medial axis transform represents the core or skeleton of an image pattern. There are different algorithms for extracting the skeleton or medial axis, including sequential and parallel algorithms. The skeleton provides a simple representation that preserves topological and size characteristics of the original shape.
3) The document provides background on medial axis transforms and different skeletonization algorithms. It then describes preparing the binary image and applying the Euclidean distance transform to extract the MAT and skeleton
A H YBRID C RITICAL P ATH M ETHODOLOGY – ABCP (A S B UILT C RITICAL P ...ijcsitcejournal
The edge detection in an image has become an imminent process, with the edge of an image containing the
important information related to a particular image such as the pixel intensity value, m
inimal path
deciding factors, etc. This requires a specific methodology to guide in the detection of the edges, assign a
Critical Path with a minimal path set and their respective energy partitions. The basis for this approach is
the Optimized Ant Colony A
lgorithm [2], guiding through the various optimized structure in the edge
detection of an image. Here we have considered the scenario with respect to a Medical Image, as the
information contained in the obtained medical image is of high value and requires
a redundant loss in
information pertaining to the medical image obtained through various modalities. A proper plan with a
minimal set as Critical Path, analysis with respect to the Power partitions or the Energy partitions with the
minimal set, computation
of the total time taken by the algorithm to detect an edge and retrieve the data
with respect to the edge of a medical image, cumulatively considering the cliques, trade
-
offs in the intensity
and the number of iterations required to detect an edge in an
image, with or without the presence of
suitable noise factors in the image are the necessary aspects being addressed in this paper. This paper
includes an efficient hybrid approach to address the edge detection within an image and the consideration
of vari
ous other factors, including the Shortest path out of the all the paths being produced during the
traversing of the ants within a medical image, evaluation of the time duration empirically produced by the
ants in traversing the entire image. We also constr
uct a hybrid mechanism called ABCP (As Built Critical
Path) factor to show the deviation produced by the algorithm in covering the entire medical image, for the
metrics such as the shortest paths, computation time stamps obtained eventually and the planne
d
schedules.
Boosting ced using robust orientation estimationijma
In this paper, Coherence Enhancement Diffusion (CED) is boosted feeding external orientation using new
robust orientation estimation. In CED, proper scale selection is very important as the gradient vector at
that scale reflects the orientation of local ridge. For this purpose a new scheme is proposed in which pre
calculated orientation, by using local and integration scales. From the experiments it is found the proposed
scheme is working much better in noisy environment as compared to the traditional Coherence
Enhancement Diffusion
2D Shape Reconstruction Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary FeaturesCSCJournals
This paper proposes a new method for 2D shape reconstruction based on combining skeleton and boundary features. The method aims to mimic human perceptual processes by using both curvature properties of the shape boundary and structural properties of the shape skeleton. Junction points on the skeleton are used to identify likely protrusions, while boundary features like curvature, length and width are used to determine the strength of protrusions. Experiments show the reconstructed shapes match human perceptual judgments better than existing methods. The approach gives a stable reconstruction and is robust to noise.
This document presents a novel edge detection algorithm proposed for mammographic images. It begins with an abstract summarizing the paper's focus on edge detection in mammograms and comparison to other common edge detection methods. It then provides background on edge detection and medical image analysis, describing common gradient and derivative-based edge detection methods. The main body introduces a new two-phase edge detection process called Binary Homogeneity Enhancement Algorithm (BHEA) that homogenizes the mammogram and detects edges by traversing the image horizontally and vertically. Results from the new method are then compared to other common edge detection filters.
EFFICIENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING REGION BASED IMAGE RETRIEVALsipij
1) The document describes an efficient region-based image retrieval system that uses discrete wavelet transform and k-means clustering. It segments images into regions, each characterized by features like size, mean, and covariance.
2) The system pre-processes images by resizing, converting to HSV color space, performing DWT, and using k-means clustering on DWT coefficients to generate regions. It extracts features for each region and stores them in a database.
3) For retrieval, it pre-processes the query image similarly and calculates similarities between the query regions and database regions based on their features, returning similar images.
FACE RECOGNITION USING DIFFERENT LOCAL FEATURES WITH DIFFERENT DISTANCE TECHN...IJCSEIT Journal
A face recognition system using different local features with different distance measures is proposed in this
paper. Proposed method is fast and gives accurate detection. Feature vector is based on Eigen values,
Eigen vectors, and diagonal vectors of sub images. Images are partitioned into sub images to detect local
features. Sub partitions are rearranged into vertically and horizontally matrices. Eigen values, Eigenvector
and diagonal vectors are computed for these matrices. Global feature vector is generated for face
recognition. Experiments are performed on benchmark face YALE database. Results indicate that the
proposed method gives better recognition performance in terms of average recognized rate and retrieval
time compared to the existing methods.
This document summarizes a research article that proposes using a Bayesian classifier to aid in level set segmentation for early detection of diabetic retinopathy. Level set segmentation is used to segment retinal images and detect small blood clots. A Bayesian classifier is applied to help propagate the level set contour and classify pixels as normal blood vessels or abnormal blood clots. The method was tested on retinal images and showed it could detect small clots of 0.02mm, indicating it may help detect early proliferation stages. Results demonstrated it outperformed other methods in detecting minute clots for early stage proliferation detection.
REGION CLASSIFICATION BASED IMAGE DENOISING USING SHEARLET AND WAVELET TRANSF...cscpconf
This paper proposes a neural network based region classification technique that classifies
regions in an image into two classes: textures and homogenous regions. The classification is
based on training a neural network with statistical parameters belonging to the regions of
interest. An application of this classification method is applied in image denoising by applying
different transforms to the two different classes. Texture is denoised by shearlets while
homogenous regions are denoised by wavelets. The denoised results show better performance
than either of the transforms applied independently. The proposed algorithm successfully
reduces the mean square error of the denoised result and provides perceptually good results.
VISUAL TRACKING USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATIONcsandit
The problem of robust extraction of visual odometry from a sequence of images obtained by an
eye in hand camera configuration is addressed. A novel approach toward solving planar
template based tracking is proposed which performs a non-linear image alignment for
successful retrieval of camera transformations. In order to obtain global optimum a biometaheuristic
is used for optimization of similarity among the planar regions. The proposed
method is validated on image sequences with real as well as synthetic transformations and
found to be resilient to intensity variations. A comparative analysis of the various similarity
measures as well as various state-of-art methods reveal that the algorithm succeeds in tracking
the planar regions robustly and has good potential to be used in real applications.
Image segmentation Based on Chan-Vese Active Contours using Finite Difference...ijsrd.com
There are a lot of image segmentation techniques that try to differentiate between backgrounds and object pixels but many of them fail to discriminate between different objects that are close to each other, e.g. low contrast between foreground and background regions increase the difficulty for segmenting images. So we introduced the Chan-Vese active contours model for image segmentation to detect the objects in given image, which is built based on techniques of curve evolution and level set method. The Chan-Vese model is a special case of Mumford-Shah functional for segmentation and level sets. It differs from other active contour models in that it is not edge dependent, therefore it is more capable of detecting objects whose boundaries may not be defined by a gradient. Finally, we developed code in Matlab 7.8 for solving resulting Partial differential equation numerically by the finite differences schemes on pixel-by-pixel domain.
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A MORPHOLOGICAL MULTIPHASE ACTIVE CONTOUR FOR VASCULAR SEGMENTATION
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DOI: 10.5121/ijbb.2013.3301 1
A MORPHOLOGICAL MULTIPHASE ACTIVE
CONTOUR FOR VASCULAR SEGMENTATION
Victoria L. Fox1
, Mariofana Milanova2
, and Salim Al-Ali3
1
Department of Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
2
Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
2
Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a morphological active contour ideal for vascular segmentation in biomedical images.
The unenhanced images of vessels and background are successfully segmented using a two-step
morphological active contour based upon Chan and Vese’s Active Contour without Edges. Using dilation
and erosion as an approximation of curve evolution, the contour provides an efficient, simple, and robust
alternative to solving partial differential equations used by traditional level-set Active Contour models. The
proposed method is demonstrated with segmented data set images and compared to results garnered from
multiphase Active Contour without Edges, morphological watershed, and Fuzzy C-means segmentations.
KEYWORDS
Active Contour, Morphology, Segmentation, Curve Evolution
1. INTRODUCTION
Image segmentation is responsible for partitioning an image into sub-regions based on a
desired feature and is an essential first task in many disciplines. Biomedical segmentation
separates a medical image into different regions based upon pathology, anatomical structure,
tissue classes, or many other inherent criteria. Often, these partitions are challenging to construct
due to noise, low contrast, and image artefacts embedded in the figure. Methods for biomedical
segmentation range from basic thresholding techniques [1],fuzzy logic approaches[2], to intricate
partial differential equation models[3].
1.1. Segmentation Techniques
Using the assumption that regions of interest in an image are identifiable by separating intensity
values, thresholding sets a value in which pixels above the threshold are grouped as the region of
interest and pixels below are segmented as background pixels. For images with sharp edges, the
method proves effective; once influenced by speckle or varying intensity levels, this approach
loses its effectiveness. Region growing techniques build on the idea of thresholding by starting
with a seed pixel known to be inside the region of interest. Using a threshold, the neighbourhood
of the seed pixel is categorized as foreground or background. This process then performs a
search through the pixels of the image classifying each. However, it is difficult to set a threshold
which completely confines the region of interest and image leakage is a common shortcoming of
the method [4].
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Fuzzy logic approaches have the advantage of allowing a pixel to belong to multiple clusters in
the segmentation. To determine the clusters in which to assign a pixel, the algorithm sets a
degree of belonging to each cluster for the pixel. Using this reasoning, a pixel on the edge of the
region of interest will have a lower degree of belonging to the cluster than a pixel located near the
center of the region of interest. The flexibility inherent in the method involves a trade-off in
increased computational complexity. Additionally, noisy images cause a decrease in accuracy of
the method [5] due to the nature of its clustering methodology. However, because of its
flexibility, a popular fuzzy model – the Fuzzy C-means method – is widely used in segmentation
of medical images.
Segmentation methods based on minimization of energy functionals are commonly
referred to as active contour methods and are popular due to their ability to always
produce sub regions with continuous boundaries. The original active contour method, the
snake, and its variations [6 -11] are disposed to large error results when dealing with
“false” edges and noisy images. Several implementations, such as the minimal path
technique by Cohen et al. [12-13] or dual snakes [14], and other similar methods [15-19],
have been suggested to correct the error associated with challenging images.
Unfortunately, all of these classical snakes and active contour models can only detect
objects with edges defined by the gradient, and, as expected, the performance of the
totally edge based methods is often inadequate.
In the past two decades, the creation of a region-based functional that is less likely to give
unwanted local minima when compared to the simpler, edge-based energy functions has been an
area of active research. The region-based models [20], use information not only near the active
contour, but image statistics both inside and outside the contour. In 2001, Chan and Vese [21],
based a region-based functional on the Mumford-Shah functional to propose an active contour
without edges. For the Active Contours without Edges, the functional of a curve is
(1) ( , , ) = ∙ length( ) + ∙ area(inside( )) +
∫ ‖ ( ) − ‖ + ∫ ‖ ( ) − ‖ ,
where the non-negative parameters , , , control the strength of each term and ,
provide the statistics of the interior and exterior regions of the contour, respectively.The energy in
the Chan-Vese model can be seen as a particular case of the minimal partition problem, and the
active contour is evolved in the level set formulation. With the introduction of the Chan-Vese
model, region-based models could now handle objects with boundaries not necessarily gradient-
defined. However, the computations for the pixel intensities within each region had a high
computational cost. Many variations, such as [22] in which the simplicity of the k-means
algorithm is utilized or [23] in which the algorithm directly calculates the energy alterations
rather than solving the underlying PDE equations, have been proposed to improve the efficiency
and accuracy of the Chan-Vese model.
1.2. Morphological Active Contours
Morphological approaches for image processing include operators for denoising, enhancing, and
simplification [24]. In the setting of segmentation, morphology has played a direct role in the
evolution of a discrete scheme for the mean curvature motion of level sets [25]. In edge based
active contour methods, the contour is composed of three components: a balloon force, a
smoothing force, and an edge attraction force. Region based models also contain a balloon force
and a smoothing force. Since such models take into account the statistics of the interior and
exterior regions of the contour, there is a need to replace the edge attraction force with an image
attachment term which provides the statistics needed for the formulation.
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Recent studies in the effectiveness of using morphological operators to drive curve evolution
focus primarily on the development of a sequence of erosions and dilations with specific
structuring elements. In Jalba and Roerdink’s research [26], the authors detail a discrete approach
to curve evolution. By iteratively eroding an input set embedding the initial curve by a
morphological structuring element, the authors partially segmented a 2D vascular image and
successfully segmented the bones of the human feet in a CT scan.The partial segmentation of the
2D image is explained as a result of sacrificing accuracy for efficiency.
For Alarez et al., the study [27] is concerned with a full morphological scheme which
approximates the action of the Geodesic Active Contour model curve evolution. The scheme is
further extended in [25] to an approximation of Active Contours without Edges and turbo pixels.
The morphological aspects of the scheme occur in the approximation of the balloon force and
smoothing force for the Geodesic Active Contour model and primarily in the smoothing force in
the Active Contour without Edges Model. As the morphological equivalent of the mean
curvature motion, the smoothing force is comprised of a series linear structuring elements
iteratively applied to the contour.
In our approach, we also use a structuring element iteratively applied to the contour to
approximate the mean curvature motion of a level-set active contour. Our structuring element is
more straightforward in implementation than the series of linear structuring elements applied in
[25] or [27] and we achieve more accurate results than Jalba and Roerdink’s 2D segmentation.
The implementation of the scheme is efficient and robust to noise, blurred edges, and image
artefacts in the medical images and easily be extended into three-dimensional applications.
Finally, it relies upon region based statistics and can be fully automated in segmentation
applications.
2. A MORPHOLOGICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR FORMULATION
The underlying principle of mean curvature motion is the evolution of a simple closed curve
whose points move in the direction of the normal with specified velocity [28].
Figure 1: Motion of a curve by curvature. The arrows represent the velocity at some
points. Here, the velocity is a nondecreasing function of the curvature.
In the level set framework, is implicitly represented by a higher dimensional Lipschtiz function
where = {( , )| ( , ) = 0}. The deforming curve is given by the zero level set at time
of function ( , , ). Evolving the curve in its normal direction with speed can be achieved
by solving
(2) = ‖∇ ‖,
with the initial condition of ( , ,0) = ( , ), where ( , ) is the initial signed distance
function of . For the Active Contour without Edges functional (1), the steepest descent method
gives us this variation of (2):
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(3) = { ∙ κ − + [( − ) − ( − ) ]}‖∇ ‖.
In solving for , it is important to note that κ represents the level set curvature and =
average( )in { ≥ 0} and = average( ) in { < 0}. The first term of in (3) represents the
curvature flow and minimizes the curve length; the second term represents inward motion at a
constant speed and minimizes the region area; while the last term represents region competition
through the statistics of each region.
Focusing on the curvature flow, = , in [28] it is shown that iterating k times a median filter
using a window of size converges when → 0, → ∞, → to the mean curvature flow.
Additionally, it has also been shown that a median filter can be approximated by a binary
morphological opening-closing filter [30] where the structuring element of the opening-closing
filter is roughly half the size of the structuring element of the median filter. The structuring
element , ℬ, in [28] is the representation of the unit ball created by the Euclidean norm ‖∙‖.
Letting ℬ represent the discrete version of this structuring element in two-dimensional
applications, the authors of this paper chose to use a square structuring element of size d as the
closest discrete representation of the continuous case.Therefore, the iterative morphological
curvature flow can be represented by
(4) = ( ○ ℬ )ℬ ,
where ‘○’ denotes set opening and ‘’ denotes set closing.
Moving to the second term in (3), inward motion at a constant speed, = − , with
nonnegative, a weak solution for the PDE describing inwards curve motion at constant speed can
be given by eroding the embedded curve k times [26, 28, 31]. Thus, the iterative morphological
constant speed for inwards curve motion can be described by
(5) = ⊖ ℬ ,
where ‘⊖’ represents morphological erosion. Likewise, the iterative morphological constant
speed for outwards curve motion can be approximated by dilating the embedded curve k times
and can be represented by
(6) = ⨁ ℬ .
Finally, in [32] the Heaviside function was introduced to improve the Active Contours without
Edges for multiphase segmentation. Due to the nature of the vascular images this paper
references, the proposed method incorporates the Heaviside function in its formulation of the
region competition portion of (3). Specifically, the Heaviside function can be expressed as
(7) ( ) =
1, ≥ 0
0, < 0
and the region competition portion of (1) becomes
(8) ∫ ‖ ( ) − ‖ ( ) + ∫ ‖ ( ) − ‖(1 − ( )) .
The computations and are relatively straight forward and do not contain much
computational complexity. It is obvious that
(9) =
∫ ∙ ( )
∫ ( )
=
∫ ∙ (1 − ( ))
∫ (1 − ( ))
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and the proposed method uses the approximations of (9) to help deriving the morphological
approximation of the region competition term in (3). Fundamentally, when
(10) |∇ϕ|( − ) < | |( − ) at
belongs to the exterior of the contour. When the inequality is reversed, belongs to the interior.
If the inequality becomes an equality, e.g. |∇ϕ|( − ) = | |( − ) , then is located
on the contour.
With these three terms defined, the algorithm for the proposed method can be described as
(11) 1: =
⊖ ℬ > 0
⨁ ℬ < 0
2: =
⎩
⎪
⎨
⎪
⎧ ( − ) = ( − )
1 ( − ) > ( − )
0 ( − ) < ( − )
3: = ○ ℬ ℬ .
which is the of a morphological implementation of a multiphase Active Contour without Edges.
3. IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICS
The implementation of equation (11) is fairly straightforward; however a few comments about the
approximation calculations are worth discussing. Foremost, is stored as a binary function. The
morphological erosions, dilations, closings, and openings are defined as binary operations in this
application. It would be trivial to extend the operations to grayscale values, less trivial for an
extension into color or multispectral images. |∇ |is approximated by the magnitude of the
gradient, namely + where and are computed using finite differences. The
Matlab code used to approximate |∇ | is
%--Calculate gradient of u
[m,n]=size(u);
P = padarray(u,[1,1],1,'pre');
P = padarray(P,[1,1],1,'post');
fy = P(3:end,2:n+1)-P(1:m,2:n+1);
fx = P(2:m+1,3:end)-P(2:m+1,1:n);
G = (fx.^2+fy.^2).^(0.5); %magnitude of gradient
%--end calculation of gradient of u.
Additionally, the mean curvature operator,( ○ ℬ )ℬ , can also be expressed as
( ℬ )○ℬ for the evolution of . To help equalize the influence of both expressions, the
implementation of the operators alternate( ○ ℬ )ℬ and ( ℬ )○ℬ throughout the
iterations of the main loop. Finally, the choice of the structuring element for our implementation
is a square structuring element of size three. In discrete form, the structuring element would take
the shape of
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1 1 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
Figure 2: A square structuring element of size 3.
The selection of this structuring element came from the need to discretize the unit ball structuring
element used in continuous morphology. Discretizing the morphology is equivalent to
discretizing its structuring element, therefore the square structuring element provided a unit area
discretization for a three-by-three window in our curve evolution.
In the following section, we will compare the results of the morphological multiphase active
contour with the numerical solution to the multiphase Active Contours without Edges contour.
In the partial differential equation methods, the algorithms deteriorate the level set function to the
point where it is no longer a signed difference function. To fix this shortcoming, it is common to
reinitialize the level-set. In the traditional numerical implementation, we chose to use
(12) =
+
after each iteration of the numerical solution to “re-sign” the level set function. Our
morphological multiphase contour did not require a re-initialization step.
4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The images used in the experiments were gathered from the Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging
datasets [33]. The images were not contrast enhanced and were acquired with a 50o
fundus
camera and digitized with a scanner at 1100x1300 pixels. The authors chose to use the images of
vessels pre-processed by a normalization algorithm [34] in a TIF non-compressed color format.
Each image was segmented by both algorithms – morphological and traditional – andtwo
otherestablished algorithms – the morphological watershed method and the fuzzy c-means – and
results in the efficiency and quality of the segmentations were compiled. The results of the
experiments underscore the advantages in terms of computational resources, simplicity, and
robustness of the morphological algorithm.
4.1. Morphological and Numerical Active Contours without Edges Experiments
The parameters used in this part of the experiment are the same for both algorithms: = 0, =
= 1. Each experimental trial is timed for completion and iterations are recorded.
The first image we use (Arteria-10.tif in the dataset) in our comparison study is an image with a
delineated, central vessel. Figure 3 details the original image and the result of segmentation of
the image with each algorithm after 300 iterations of each. The morphological algorithm quickly
completes the segmentation in 3.1 seconds while the traditional, numerical solution does not
finish the segmentation in the given iterations and takes 9.3 seconds to perform the 300 iterations.
Due to the strong demarcation of main vessels and surrounding tissue, this particular image does
not present a difficult challenge in the region statistics (competition) part of either formulation.
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(a) (b) (c)
Figure 3: (a) initial grayscale image, (b) result of Morphological multiphase active contour after 300
iterations (c) result of traditional multiphase Active Contour without Edges after 300 iterations.
The following experiment is conducted on the Arteria-209 image in the dataset. This image
yields a faint outline of the vessels and has more intensity homogeneity throughout the image. As
a result, the traditional algorithm does not fare well in the segmentation test. The morphological
segmentation takes 676 iterations to completely segment the vessel in the image and completes
the segmentation in 7 seconds. The multiphase numerical solution takes 31 seconds to achieve
700 iterations and does not successfully segment the image in those iterations. Figure 4 displays
the results of this experiment.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 4: (a) initial grayscale image, (b) result of Morphological multiphase active contour after 676
iterations, (c) result of traditional multiphase Active Contour without Edges after 700 iterations.
The final exhibition of the success of the morphological segmentation over the numerical solution
of the Active Contours without edges can be seen in Figure 5. In this experiment, we use the
image Arteria-248. This image is chosen as a challenge image due to its intensity homogeneity,
complexity in terms of vessels to detect, and the inhomogeneity of the vessels in the image. The
morphological active contour completes the segmentation in 7.8 seconds with 712 iterations. The
Active Contours without Edges algorithm takes1092 iterations and 79.4 seconds to achieve a
partial segmentation.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 5: (a) initial grayscale image, (b) result of Morphological multiphase active contour after 712
iterations, (c) result of traditional multiphase Active Contour without Edges after 1092 iterations.
4.2. Morphological Active Contours with Edges and Watershed Experiments
An established and respected method of segmentation in the medical imaging field,
morphological watershed segmentation is a benchmark of comparison for new methods. The
efficiency of the watershed method is one of its attractive attributes and since it is almost entirely
of morphological operations, it will provide an accurate comparison of efficiency and robustness
of the proposed method.
In watershed segmentation, a gray-level image viewed as a topological relief in which the gray
level of a given pixel is interpreted as its height. The flooding method of watershed segmentation
consists in placing a water source in each regional minimum, flooding the relief from sources,
and building barriers when different sources meet [35]. The resulting barriers constitute the
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segmentation of the image. Using Matlab functionality, we segmented the same three images –
Arteria-10.tif, Arteria-209.tif, and Arteria-248.tif – with the watershed method and compared
segmentation results to the morphological multiphase active contour results.
(a1) (b1) (c1)
(a2) (b2) (c2)
(a3) (b3) (c3)
Figure 6:( a1), (a2), and( a3) are original input images, (b1),( b2), (b3) are the segmentation results of the
morphological multiphase active contour,(c1),(c2),(c3) are the segmentation results of the morphological
watershed method.
Since the watershed method is a benchmark method of medical segmentation, the comparison of
the segmentations of the two methods clearly shows the morphological active contour method
segments vessel images more far more accurately than the watershed method. In efficiency,
while the morphological watershed is, on average, faster than the morphological active contour,
its lack of accuracy causes the efficiency of the algorithm to be of little significance.
4.3. Morphological Active Contours without Edges and Fuzzy c-Means Experiments
Clustering is the process of dividing data elements into classes or clusters so that items in the
same class are as similar as possible and items in different classes are as dissimilar as possible. In
fuzzy clustering, however, membership values are assigned to pixels that determine the degree to
which each pixel belongs to similar and dissimilar classes. Therefore, the measures of similarity
and dissimilarity drive fuzzy clustering algorithms.Using this reasoning, a pixel on the edge of the
region of interest will have a lower degree of similarity to the cluster than a pixel located near the
center of the region of interest. The flexibility inherent in the method in makes fuzzy clustering a
natural for the segmentation of complex medical images [35]. In Fuzzy c-means segmentation,
the iterative clustering method produces an optimal c partition by minimizing the degree of
membership within the group sum of a squared error objective function. The algorithm,
traditionally, performs well with low-noise images and any inhomogeneity of object intensity
levels does not affect its results. Due to the nature of the images we are using, the fuzzy c-means
algorithm is an appropriate algorithm to compare our proposed method.In our experiments, we
used a stock fuzzy c-means algorithm to segment the three trial images and then compare the
segmentation to the results of the morphological active contour method.
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(a1) (b1) (c1)
(a2) (b2)
(c2)
(a3) (b3)
(c3)
Figure 7: ( a1), (a2), and( a3) are original input images, (b1),( b2), (b3) are the segmentation results of the
morphological multiphase active contour,(c1),(c2),(c3) are the segmentation results of the fuzzy c-means
algorithm.
The performance of the fuzzy c-means algorithm is the closest in accuracy to our morphological
active contour. However, there are inaccurate sections in the fuzzy c-means segmentation. The
first image resulted in over segmentation while the noise/lack of inhomogeneity in the second
image resulted in the method over segmenting as well. The third image, chosen for its
complexity and variety of intensity levels, provides the optimal situation for a fuzzy c-means
algorithm to perform. However, in comparison to our method it did not perform as well and
identified objects not belonging to the desired regions of interest as foreground objects. In
efficiency, the fuzzy c-means completes the three segmentations in 33 iterations in 4 seconds for
Arteria-10, 41 iterations and 4.5 seconds for Arteria-209, and in 46 iterations in 8.1 seconds for
Arteria-248. While the times are comparable to our proposed methods, all but the third image do
not approach the accuracy garnered from using the morphological active contour scheme. Table
1 summarizes the results of all of the experiments involving the three trial images.
Table 1: Experimental Results
Method
Arteria-10 Arteria-209 Arteria-248
Iterations Time Segmented Iterations Time Segmented Iteration Time Segmented
Morphological
active contour
300 3.1 s yes 676 7 s yes 712 7.8 s yes
Active
Contour
without Edges
300 9.3 s no 700 31 s no 1092
79.4
s
no
Watershed n/a 3 s no n/a 3 s no n/a 3 s no
Fuzzy c-
Means
33 4 s no 41 4.5 s
Over
segmented
46 8 s
Over
segmented
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5. CONCLUSIONS
This paper introduces a new morphological multiphase active contour model. Based on the
multiphase implementation of the Chan-Vese Active Contour without Edges, the morphological
active contour efficiently and robustly segmented the trial vascular images. Additionally, it
outperformed three of the more commonly used segmentation routines in medical imaging:
Active Contour without Edges, morphological watershed, and Fuzzy c-means. The
implementation of the morphological multiphase active contour is simpler and has fewer
parameters than the numerical version. Additionally, there are no instability issues and no need
to re-initialize the level set.
The conducted experiments with the trial vascular images confirm the solutions obtained with the
morphological active contour are more accurate in two of the numerical schemes and comparable
to the results obtained with fuzzy c-means in one of the trial images. In efficiency, morphological
active contours outperform the traditional functional gradient descent counterparts in terms of
stability, robustness, and speed. In comparison to the watershed method, the lack of accuracy in
the morphological watershed rendered its speed and stability null in comparison to the
morphological active contour. The fuzzy c-means algorithm performed more efficiently, but less
accurately than the proposed method.
The experiments we have conducted are very promising. The use of the Heaviside function in the
image competition portion of the functional lead to more flexibility in the implementation while
the structuring element provided an efficient, simple means to approximate mean curvature. We
obtained good segmentation results in a variety of vascular images. In future work, the algorithm
will be extended to other types of images and to multispectral/color applications.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank Dr. S. Piermarocchi, from the Department of Ophthamology,
University of Padova, Italy, for kindly providing the fundas images and the manual tortuosity
grading. Additonally, the authors would like to thank the Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging,
University of Padova, Italy, for posting the dataset on their webpage:
http://bioimlab.dei.unipd.it/Retinal%20Vessel%20Tortuosity.htm .
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Authors
Currently a graduate student in Computational Science at University of Arkansas at
Little Rock, Victoria L. Fox is also a mathematics instructor for the University of
Arkansas at Monticello. Her professional interests include morphological image
processing, segmentation of natural images, and the incorporation of fuzzy logic in
multispectral image segmentation.
MariofonnaMilanova is a Professor of Computer Science Department at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock since 2001.She received her M. Sc. degree in
Expert Systems and AI in 1991 and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1995
from the Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr.Milanova did her post-doctoral
research in visual perception at the University of Paderborn, Germany. She has
extensive academic experience at various academic and research organizations in
different countries. Milanova serves as a book editor of two books and associate
editor of several international journals. Her main research interests are in the areas
of artificial intelligence, biomedical signal processing and computational
neuroscience, computer vision and communications, machine learning, and privacy
and security based on biometric research. She has published and co-authored more
than 70 publications, over 43 journal papers, 7 book chapters, numerous conference
papers and 2 patents.
Salim Al-Ali is a Ph.D. graduate student in the integrated computing of computer
science department at University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). He received a
master degree from computer science department, Baghdad University, Iraq on
1995. He is working as a teacher in Dohuk Technical Institute at Dohuk
Polytechnic University. His research interest field is computer vision in general,
human action recognition, image and video understanding.