Study the influence of (eye) motor control on selective attention
Develop a method to extract motor control parameters during visual search
Develop a method to extract selective attention features during visual search
Bayesain Hypothesis of Selective Attention - Raw 2011 posterGiacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the process of target averaging during the selection process. We analyzed the probability to select the target after a fixation outside ROIs from the duration of fixations and the distance to the target. We aimed to respond to the question “is it possible to predict the selected area?” . In this study we tested the presence of information in non-ROI fixation data about the occurrence of a target at the next saccade. A classification algorithm was trained to predict the target vs. non-target outcome (dependent variable) of a saccade from summary statistics of fixation data (covariates). We claim that significantly accurate predictions are substantial evidence to support the hypothesis of "presence of information".
The eye gaze analysis represents a challenging field of
research, since it offers a reproducible method to study the mechanisms of the brain. Eye movements are arguably the most frequent of all human movements and an essential part of human vision: they drive the fovea and consequently, the attention towards regions of interest in space. This enables the visual system to fixate and to process an image or its details with high resolution: act of fixation. This chapter investigates some common techniques and algorithms to study human vision.
Evaluating Human Visual Search Performance by Monte Carlo methods and Heurist...Giacomo Veneri
Visual search is an everyday activity that enables
humans to explore the real world. Given the visual input,
during a visual search, it’s required to select some aspects of the input in order to move to the next location. Exploration is guided by two factors: saliency of image (bottom-up) and endogenous mechanism (top-down). These two mechanisms interact to perform an efficient visual search. We developed a stochastic model, the ”break away from fixations” (BAF), to emulate the visual search on a high cognitively demanding task such as a trail making test (TMT). The paper reports a case study providing evidence that human exploration performs an efficient visual search based also on an internal model of regions already explored.
Spike removal through multiscale wavelet and entropy analysis of ocular motor...Giuseppe Fineschi
Wavelet decomposition of ocular motor signals was investigated with a view to its use for noise analysis and filtering. Ocular motor noise may be physiological, depending on brain activities, or experimental, depending on the eye recording machine, head movements and blinks. Experimental noise, such as spikes, must be removed, preserving noise due to neuro-physiological activities. The proposed method uses wavelet multiscale decomposition to remove spikes and optimizes the procedure by means of the covariance of the eye signals. To measure the noise on eye motor control, we used the wavelet entropy. The method was tested on patients with cerebellar disorders and healthy subjects. A significant difference in wavelet entropy was observed, indicating this quantity as a valuable measure of physiological motor noise.
Study the influence of (eye) motor control on selective attention
Develop a method to extract motor control parameters during visual search
Develop a method to extract selective attention features during visual search
Automatic eye fixations identification based on analysis of variance and cova...Giuseppe Fineschi
Eye movement is the simplest and repetitive movement that enables humans to interact with the environment. The common daily activities, such as reading a book or watching television, involve this natural
activity, which consists of rapidly shifting our gaze from one region to another. In clinical application, the
identification of the main components of eye movement during visual exploration, such as fixations and
saccades, is the objective of the analysis of eye movements: however, in patients affected by motor control disorder the identification of fixation is not banal. This work presents a new fixation identification
algorithm based on the analysis of variance and covariance: the main idea was to use bivariate statistical
analysis to compare variance overxandyto identify fixation. We describe the new algorithm, and we
compare it with the common fixations algorithm based on dispersion. To demonstrate the performance
of our approach, we tested the algorithm in a group of healthy subjects and patients affected by motor
control disorder
Optic Disc and Macula Localization from Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography ...IJECEIAES
This research used images from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) examination as well as fundus images to localize the optical disc and macular layer of retina. The researchers utilized the OCT and fundus image to interpret the distance between macular center and optic disc in the image. The distance will express the area of macula that can be employed for further research. This distance could recognize the thickness of macula parameters diameter that will be used in localizing process of optic disc and macula. The parameters are the circle radius, the size of window’s filter, the constant value and the size of optic disc element structure as well as the size of macula. The results of this study are expected to improve the accuracy of macula detection that experience the edema.
Retinal image analysis using morphological process and clustering techniquesipij
This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and
recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform.
Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges.
A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the remained ridges
belonging to vessels. The clustering method is used for effective detection of exudates of eye. Experimental
result proves that the blood vessels and exudates can be effectively detected by applying this method on the
retinal images. Fundus images of the retina were collected from a reputed eye clinic and 110 images were
trained and tested in order to extract the exudates and blood vessels. In this system we use the Probabilistic
Neural Network (PNN) for training and testing the pre-processed images. The results showed the retina is
normal or abnormal thereby analyzing the retinal image efficiently. There is 98% accuracy in the detection
of the exudates in the retina .
Bayesain Hypothesis of Selective Attention - Raw 2011 posterGiacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the process of target averaging during the selection process. We analyzed the probability to select the target after a fixation outside ROIs from the duration of fixations and the distance to the target. We aimed to respond to the question “is it possible to predict the selected area?” . In this study we tested the presence of information in non-ROI fixation data about the occurrence of a target at the next saccade. A classification algorithm was trained to predict the target vs. non-target outcome (dependent variable) of a saccade from summary statistics of fixation data (covariates). We claim that significantly accurate predictions are substantial evidence to support the hypothesis of "presence of information".
The eye gaze analysis represents a challenging field of
research, since it offers a reproducible method to study the mechanisms of the brain. Eye movements are arguably the most frequent of all human movements and an essential part of human vision: they drive the fovea and consequently, the attention towards regions of interest in space. This enables the visual system to fixate and to process an image or its details with high resolution: act of fixation. This chapter investigates some common techniques and algorithms to study human vision.
Evaluating Human Visual Search Performance by Monte Carlo methods and Heurist...Giacomo Veneri
Visual search is an everyday activity that enables
humans to explore the real world. Given the visual input,
during a visual search, it’s required to select some aspects of the input in order to move to the next location. Exploration is guided by two factors: saliency of image (bottom-up) and endogenous mechanism (top-down). These two mechanisms interact to perform an efficient visual search. We developed a stochastic model, the ”break away from fixations” (BAF), to emulate the visual search on a high cognitively demanding task such as a trail making test (TMT). The paper reports a case study providing evidence that human exploration performs an efficient visual search based also on an internal model of regions already explored.
Spike removal through multiscale wavelet and entropy analysis of ocular motor...Giuseppe Fineschi
Wavelet decomposition of ocular motor signals was investigated with a view to its use for noise analysis and filtering. Ocular motor noise may be physiological, depending on brain activities, or experimental, depending on the eye recording machine, head movements and blinks. Experimental noise, such as spikes, must be removed, preserving noise due to neuro-physiological activities. The proposed method uses wavelet multiscale decomposition to remove spikes and optimizes the procedure by means of the covariance of the eye signals. To measure the noise on eye motor control, we used the wavelet entropy. The method was tested on patients with cerebellar disorders and healthy subjects. A significant difference in wavelet entropy was observed, indicating this quantity as a valuable measure of physiological motor noise.
Study the influence of (eye) motor control on selective attention
Develop a method to extract motor control parameters during visual search
Develop a method to extract selective attention features during visual search
Automatic eye fixations identification based on analysis of variance and cova...Giuseppe Fineschi
Eye movement is the simplest and repetitive movement that enables humans to interact with the environment. The common daily activities, such as reading a book or watching television, involve this natural
activity, which consists of rapidly shifting our gaze from one region to another. In clinical application, the
identification of the main components of eye movement during visual exploration, such as fixations and
saccades, is the objective of the analysis of eye movements: however, in patients affected by motor control disorder the identification of fixation is not banal. This work presents a new fixation identification
algorithm based on the analysis of variance and covariance: the main idea was to use bivariate statistical
analysis to compare variance overxandyto identify fixation. We describe the new algorithm, and we
compare it with the common fixations algorithm based on dispersion. To demonstrate the performance
of our approach, we tested the algorithm in a group of healthy subjects and patients affected by motor
control disorder
Optic Disc and Macula Localization from Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography ...IJECEIAES
This research used images from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) examination as well as fundus images to localize the optical disc and macular layer of retina. The researchers utilized the OCT and fundus image to interpret the distance between macular center and optic disc in the image. The distance will express the area of macula that can be employed for further research. This distance could recognize the thickness of macula parameters diameter that will be used in localizing process of optic disc and macula. The parameters are the circle radius, the size of window’s filter, the constant value and the size of optic disc element structure as well as the size of macula. The results of this study are expected to improve the accuracy of macula detection that experience the edema.
Retinal image analysis using morphological process and clustering techniquesipij
This paper proposes a method for the Retinal image analysis through efficient detection of exudates and
recognizes the retina to be normal or abnormal. The contrast image is enhanced by curvelet transform.
Hence, morphology operators are applied to the enhanced image in order to find the retinal image ridges.
A simple thresholding method along with opening and closing operation indicates the remained ridges
belonging to vessels. The clustering method is used for effective detection of exudates of eye. Experimental
result proves that the blood vessels and exudates can be effectively detected by applying this method on the
retinal images. Fundus images of the retina were collected from a reputed eye clinic and 110 images were
trained and tested in order to extract the exudates and blood vessels. In this system we use the Probabilistic
Neural Network (PNN) for training and testing the pre-processed images. The results showed the retina is
normal or abnormal thereby analyzing the retinal image efficiently. There is 98% accuracy in the detection
of the exudates in the retina .
Driving support systems, such as car navigation systems are becoming common and they
support driver in several aspects. Non-intrusive method of detecting Fatigue and drowsiness
based on eye-blink count and eye directed instruction controlhelps the driver to prevent from
collision caused by drowsy driving. Eye detection and tracking under various conditions such as
illumination, background, face alignment and facial expression makes the problem
complex.Neural Network based algorithm is proposed in this paper to detect the eyes efficiently.
In the proposed algorithm, first the neural Network is trained to reject the non-eye regionbased
on images with features of eyes and the images with features of non-eye using Gabor filter and Support Vector Machines to reduce the dimension and classify efficiently. In the algorithm, first the face is segmented using L*a*btransform color space, then eyes are detected using HSV and Neural Network approach. The algorithm is tested on nearly 100 images of different persons under different conditions and the results are satisfactory with success rate of 98%.The Neural Network is trained with 50 non-eye images and 50 eye images with different angles using Gabor filter. This paper is a part of research work on “Development of Non-Intrusive system for realtime Monitoring and Prediction of Driver Fatigue and drowsiness” project sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi at Vignan Institute of Technology and Sciences, Vignan Hills, Hyderabad.
Automated fundus image quality assessment and segmentation of optic disc usin...IJECEIAES
An automated fundus image analysis is used as a tool for the diagnosis of common retinal diseases. A good quality fundus image results in better diagnosis and hence discarding the degraded fundus images at the time of screening itself provides an opportunity to retake the adequate fundus photographs, which save both time and resources. In this paper, we propose a novel fundus image quality assessment (IQA) model using the convolutional neural network (CNN) based on the quality of optic disc (OD) visibility. We localize the OD by transfer learning with Inception v-3 model. Precise segmentation of OD is done using the GrabCut algorithm. Contour operations are applied to the segmented OD to approximate it to the nearest circle for finding its center and diameter. For training the model, we are using the publicly available fundus databases and a private hospital database. We have attained excellent classification accuracy for fundus IQA on DRIVE, CHASE-DB, and HRF databases. For the OD segmentation, we have experimented our method on DRINS-DB, DRISHTI-GS, and RIMONE v.3 databases and compared the results with existing state-of-the-art methods. Our proposed method outperforms existing methods for OD segmentation on Jaccard index and F-score metrics.
FUZZY CLUSTERING BASED GLAUCOMA DETECTION USING THE CDR sipij
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease, overtime it will result in gradual blindness. Early detection of thedisease will help prevent against developing a more serious condition. A vertical cup-to-disc ratio which isthe ratio of the vertical diameter of the optic cup to that of the optic disc, of the fundus eye image is an important clinical indicator for glaucoma diagnosis. This paper presents an automated method for the extraction of optic disc and optic cup using Fuzzy C Means clustering technique combined with
thresholding. Using the extracted optic disc and optic cup the vertical cup-to-disc ratio was calculated.
The validity of this new method has been tested on 365 colour fundus images from two different publicly
available databases DRION, DIARATDB0 and images from an ophthalmologist. The result of the method
seems to be promising and useful for clinical work.
Iris Publishers - journal of ophthalmology | Demystifying Role of Ultrasound ...IrisPublishers
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare sonoelastographic findings in the retina– choroid–sclera (RCS) complex and vitreous in glaucomatous and healthy eyes.Methods: For this cross-sectional comparative study, 20 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and 20 healthy volunteers were recruited. Ultrasound elastography measurements were taken with a sonographic scanner of the RCS complex, anterior vitreous (AV), posterior vitreous (PV), retrobulbar fat tissue (RFT), optic disc, and optic nerve in each eye.Results: The elasticity index of the RCS complex, RFT, optic disc, optic nerve, AV, and PV were similar in both groups (p > 0.05), though the AV/PV strain ratio in the group of patients with glaucoma was significantly higher (p = 0.04).Conclusion: Glaucoma increases the AV/PV strain ratio. In providing reproducible and consistent values, the real-time elastography technique may be helpful in elucidating the mechanisms of glaucoma in some aspects.
Detection of Glaucoma using Optic Disk and Incremental Cup Segmentation from ...theijes
Medical researchers, detection of eye disease is very important because it may causes blindness. Glaucoma is one of the diseases that cause blindness. Standard procedure for detection glaucoma is to analysis of optic disk (OD) and cup region in retinal image. In this paper, introduce an automatic OD parameterized technique which is based on segmentation and Incremental Cup segmentation. The incremental cup segmentation method is based on anatomical evidence such as vessel bends at the cup boundary, considered relevant by glaucoma experts. Bends in a vessel are robustly detected using a region of support concept, which automatically selects the right scale for analysis. A multi-stage strategy is applied to derive a reliable subset of vessel bends called r-bends followed by a local 2-D spline fitting to derive the desired cup boundary. The results are compared with existing methods using different retinal images.
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
During past few years, brain tumor segmentation in CT has become an emergent research area in the field of medical imaging system. Brain tumor detection helps in finding the exact size and location of tumor. An efficient algorithm is proposed in this project for tumor detection based on segmentation and morphological operators. Firstly quality of scanned image is enhanced and then morphological operators are applied to detect the tumor in the scanned image. The problem with biopsy is that the patient has to be hospitalized and also the results (around 15%) give false negative. Scan images are read by radiologist but it's a subjective analysis which requires more experience. In the proposed work we segment the renal region and then classify the tumors as benign or malignant by using ANFIS, which is a non-invasive automated process. This approach reduces the waiting time of the patient.
Faro An Interactive Interface For Remote Administration Of Clinical Tests Bas...Kalle
A challenging goal today is the use of computer networking and advanced
monitoring technologies to extend human intellectual capabilities in medical decision making. Modern commercial eye trackers
are used in many of research fields, but the improvement of eye tracking technology, in terms of precision on the eye movements capture, has led to consider the eye tracker as a tool for vision analysis, so that its application in medical research, e.g. in ophthalmology, cognitive psychology and in neuroscience has grown considerably. The improvements of the human eye tracker interface become more and more important to allow medical doctors to increase their diagnosis capacity, especially if the interface allows them to remotely administer the clinical tests more appropriate for the problem at hand. In this paper, we propose a client/server eye tracking system that provides an interactive system for monitoring patients eye movements depending on the clinical test administered by the medical doctors. The system supports the retrieval of the gaze information and provides statistics to both medical research and disease diagnosis.
Implementation of features dynamic tracking filter to tracing pupilssipij
The objective of this paper is to show the implementation of an artificial vision filter capable of tracking the
pupils of a person in a video sequence. There are several algorithms that can achieve this objective, for this
case, features dynamic tracking selected, which is a method that traces patterns between each frame that
form a video scene, this type of processing offers the advantage of eliminating the problems of occlusion
patterns of interest. The implementation was tested on a base of videos of people with different physical
characteristics of the eyes. An additional goal is to obtain information of the eye movements that are
captured and pupil coordinates for each of these movements. These data could help some studies related to
eye health.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease, caused by alternation in the retinal blood vessels. It is a strong sign of early blindness and if it is not treated may tend to complete blindness and the vision lost once cannot be restored once again. In this paper different image processing techniques are used to differentiate between the normal and the diseased image. The attempt is made to see where the problem actually lies so that proper diagnosis of patient can be done. Pre processing of an image, optic disk detection, Blood vessels extraction, Exudates detection are some of the methods that are applied here. Other algorithms are designed to obtain the desired result. A large number of populations are affected by this disease around the world.
Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease in which the optic nerve head is progressively damaged which leads to loss of
vision. Early diagnosis and treatment is the key to preserving sight in people with glaucoma. Current tests using
intraocular pressure (IOP) are not sensitive enough for population based glaucoma screening. Assessment of the
damaged optic nerve head is both more promising, and superior to IOP measurement or visual field testing. This paper
presents superpixel classification based optic disc and optic cup segmentation for glaucoma screening. In optic disc
segmentation, histograms and centre surround statistics are used to classify each superpixel as disc or non-disc. For optic
cup segmentation, in addition to the histograms and centre surround statistics, the location information is also included
into the feature space to boost the performance. The segmented optic disc and optic cup are used to compute the CDR
for glaucoma screening. The Cup to Disc Ratio (CDR) of the color retinal fundus camera image is the primary identifier
to confirm Glaucoma given patient.
Keywords — IOP measurement, optic cup segmentation, optic disc segmentation, CDR.
Driving support systems, such as car navigation systems are becoming common and they
support driver in several aspects. Non-intrusive method of detecting Fatigue and drowsiness
based on eye-blink count and eye directed instruction controlhelps the driver to prevent from
collision caused by drowsy driving. Eye detection and tracking under various conditions such as
illumination, background, face alignment and facial expression makes the problem
complex.Neural Network based algorithm is proposed in this paper to detect the eyes efficiently.
In the proposed algorithm, first the neural Network is trained to reject the non-eye regionbased
on images with features of eyes and the images with features of non-eye using Gabor filter and Support Vector Machines to reduce the dimension and classify efficiently. In the algorithm, first the face is segmented using L*a*btransform color space, then eyes are detected using HSV and Neural Network approach. The algorithm is tested on nearly 100 images of different persons under different conditions and the results are satisfactory with success rate of 98%.The Neural Network is trained with 50 non-eye images and 50 eye images with different angles using Gabor filter. This paper is a part of research work on “Development of Non-Intrusive system for realtime Monitoring and Prediction of Driver Fatigue and drowsiness” project sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi at Vignan Institute of Technology and Sciences, Vignan Hills, Hyderabad.
Automated fundus image quality assessment and segmentation of optic disc usin...IJECEIAES
An automated fundus image analysis is used as a tool for the diagnosis of common retinal diseases. A good quality fundus image results in better diagnosis and hence discarding the degraded fundus images at the time of screening itself provides an opportunity to retake the adequate fundus photographs, which save both time and resources. In this paper, we propose a novel fundus image quality assessment (IQA) model using the convolutional neural network (CNN) based on the quality of optic disc (OD) visibility. We localize the OD by transfer learning with Inception v-3 model. Precise segmentation of OD is done using the GrabCut algorithm. Contour operations are applied to the segmented OD to approximate it to the nearest circle for finding its center and diameter. For training the model, we are using the publicly available fundus databases and a private hospital database. We have attained excellent classification accuracy for fundus IQA on DRIVE, CHASE-DB, and HRF databases. For the OD segmentation, we have experimented our method on DRINS-DB, DRISHTI-GS, and RIMONE v.3 databases and compared the results with existing state-of-the-art methods. Our proposed method outperforms existing methods for OD segmentation on Jaccard index and F-score metrics.
FUZZY CLUSTERING BASED GLAUCOMA DETECTION USING THE CDR sipij
Glaucoma is a serious eye disease, overtime it will result in gradual blindness. Early detection of thedisease will help prevent against developing a more serious condition. A vertical cup-to-disc ratio which isthe ratio of the vertical diameter of the optic cup to that of the optic disc, of the fundus eye image is an important clinical indicator for glaucoma diagnosis. This paper presents an automated method for the extraction of optic disc and optic cup using Fuzzy C Means clustering technique combined with
thresholding. Using the extracted optic disc and optic cup the vertical cup-to-disc ratio was calculated.
The validity of this new method has been tested on 365 colour fundus images from two different publicly
available databases DRION, DIARATDB0 and images from an ophthalmologist. The result of the method
seems to be promising and useful for clinical work.
Iris Publishers - journal of ophthalmology | Demystifying Role of Ultrasound ...IrisPublishers
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare sonoelastographic findings in the retina– choroid–sclera (RCS) complex and vitreous in glaucomatous and healthy eyes.Methods: For this cross-sectional comparative study, 20 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and 20 healthy volunteers were recruited. Ultrasound elastography measurements were taken with a sonographic scanner of the RCS complex, anterior vitreous (AV), posterior vitreous (PV), retrobulbar fat tissue (RFT), optic disc, and optic nerve in each eye.Results: The elasticity index of the RCS complex, RFT, optic disc, optic nerve, AV, and PV were similar in both groups (p > 0.05), though the AV/PV strain ratio in the group of patients with glaucoma was significantly higher (p = 0.04).Conclusion: Glaucoma increases the AV/PV strain ratio. In providing reproducible and consistent values, the real-time elastography technique may be helpful in elucidating the mechanisms of glaucoma in some aspects.
Detection of Glaucoma using Optic Disk and Incremental Cup Segmentation from ...theijes
Medical researchers, detection of eye disease is very important because it may causes blindness. Glaucoma is one of the diseases that cause blindness. Standard procedure for detection glaucoma is to analysis of optic disk (OD) and cup region in retinal image. In this paper, introduce an automatic OD parameterized technique which is based on segmentation and Incremental Cup segmentation. The incremental cup segmentation method is based on anatomical evidence such as vessel bends at the cup boundary, considered relevant by glaucoma experts. Bends in a vessel are robustly detected using a region of support concept, which automatically selects the right scale for analysis. A multi-stage strategy is applied to derive a reliable subset of vessel bends called r-bends followed by a local 2-D spline fitting to derive the desired cup boundary. The results are compared with existing methods using different retinal images.
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
During past few years, brain tumor segmentation in CT has become an emergent research area in the field of medical imaging system. Brain tumor detection helps in finding the exact size and location of tumor. An efficient algorithm is proposed in this project for tumor detection based on segmentation and morphological operators. Firstly quality of scanned image is enhanced and then morphological operators are applied to detect the tumor in the scanned image. The problem with biopsy is that the patient has to be hospitalized and also the results (around 15%) give false negative. Scan images are read by radiologist but it's a subjective analysis which requires more experience. In the proposed work we segment the renal region and then classify the tumors as benign or malignant by using ANFIS, which is a non-invasive automated process. This approach reduces the waiting time of the patient.
Faro An Interactive Interface For Remote Administration Of Clinical Tests Bas...Kalle
A challenging goal today is the use of computer networking and advanced
monitoring technologies to extend human intellectual capabilities in medical decision making. Modern commercial eye trackers
are used in many of research fields, but the improvement of eye tracking technology, in terms of precision on the eye movements capture, has led to consider the eye tracker as a tool for vision analysis, so that its application in medical research, e.g. in ophthalmology, cognitive psychology and in neuroscience has grown considerably. The improvements of the human eye tracker interface become more and more important to allow medical doctors to increase their diagnosis capacity, especially if the interface allows them to remotely administer the clinical tests more appropriate for the problem at hand. In this paper, we propose a client/server eye tracking system that provides an interactive system for monitoring patients eye movements depending on the clinical test administered by the medical doctors. The system supports the retrieval of the gaze information and provides statistics to both medical research and disease diagnosis.
Implementation of features dynamic tracking filter to tracing pupilssipij
The objective of this paper is to show the implementation of an artificial vision filter capable of tracking the
pupils of a person in a video sequence. There are several algorithms that can achieve this objective, for this
case, features dynamic tracking selected, which is a method that traces patterns between each frame that
form a video scene, this type of processing offers the advantage of eliminating the problems of occlusion
patterns of interest. The implementation was tested on a base of videos of people with different physical
characteristics of the eyes. An additional goal is to obtain information of the eye movements that are
captured and pupil coordinates for each of these movements. These data could help some studies related to
eye health.
Diabetic retinopathy is a disease, caused by alternation in the retinal blood vessels. It is a strong sign of early blindness and if it is not treated may tend to complete blindness and the vision lost once cannot be restored once again. In this paper different image processing techniques are used to differentiate between the normal and the diseased image. The attempt is made to see where the problem actually lies so that proper diagnosis of patient can be done. Pre processing of an image, optic disk detection, Blood vessels extraction, Exudates detection are some of the methods that are applied here. Other algorithms are designed to obtain the desired result. A large number of populations are affected by this disease around the world.
Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease in which the optic nerve head is progressively damaged which leads to loss of
vision. Early diagnosis and treatment is the key to preserving sight in people with glaucoma. Current tests using
intraocular pressure (IOP) are not sensitive enough for population based glaucoma screening. Assessment of the
damaged optic nerve head is both more promising, and superior to IOP measurement or visual field testing. This paper
presents superpixel classification based optic disc and optic cup segmentation for glaucoma screening. In optic disc
segmentation, histograms and centre surround statistics are used to classify each superpixel as disc or non-disc. For optic
cup segmentation, in addition to the histograms and centre surround statistics, the location information is also included
into the feature space to boost the performance. The segmented optic disc and optic cup are used to compute the CDR
for glaucoma screening. The Cup to Disc Ratio (CDR) of the color retinal fundus camera image is the primary identifier
to confirm Glaucoma given patient.
Keywords — IOP measurement, optic cup segmentation, optic disc segmentation, CDR.
Combining Optical Brain Imaging and Physiological Signals to Study Cognitive ...InsideScientific
In this exclusive webinar sponsored by BIOPAC Systems and fNIR Devices, Dr. Hasan Ayaz, Dr. Kurtulus Izzetoglu and Frazer Findlay present new research capabilities enabled through the integration of optical brain imaging technology and physiological recording systems.
Key topics covered during this webinar include physiological and physical principles of optical brain imaging, theory of operation, hardware and software integration, essential fNIR signal processing (demonstrated using fnirSoft analysis software), common field applications of fNIR imaging, why and how researchers can measure physiological data such as EDA, HR and ECG and acquistion procedures for co-registration of fNIR data and physiological monitoring signals using AcqKnowledge data acquisition and analysis software.
QoMEX2014 - Analysing the Quality of Experience of Multisensory Media from Me...Jacob Donley
This presentation was given at QoMEX 2014, the 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the Quality of Experience (QoE) of multisensory media by analysing biosignals collected by electroencephalography (EEG) and eye gaze sensors and comparing with subjective ratings. Also investigated is the impact on QoE of various levels of synchronicity between the sensory effect and target video scene. Results confirm findings from previous research that show sensory effects added to videos increases the QoE rating. While there was no statistical difference observed for the QoE ratings for different levels of sensory effect synchronicity, an analysis of raw EEG data showed 25% more activity in the temporal lobe during asynchronous effects and 20-25% more activity in the occipital lobe during synchronous effects. The eye gaze data showed more deviation for a video with synchronous effects and the EEG showed correlating occipital lobe activity for this instance. These differences in physiological responses indicate sensory effect synchronicity may affect QoE despite subjective ratings appearing similar.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging in Awake & Behaving Non-Human PrimatesInsideScientific
To learn more and watch the webinar, go to:
https://insidescientific.com/webinar/functional-ultrasound-neuroimaging-in-awake-behaving-non-human-primates/
While there are many neuroimaging modalities to study the brain, each comes with its own set of benefits and limitations. MRI and EEG can record from the whole brain, but it comes at the price of limited spatiotemporal resolution and low sensitivity. Recently, functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging has made a name for itself, with its ability to image the full depth of the brain and provide a quantitative view of brain activation and connectivity.
In this webinar, Dr. Pierre Pouget discusses the use of fUS imaging to assess local changes in cerebral blood flow in awake, behaving non-human primates. He provides an overview of fUS technology and highlight recent and ongoing research showing how unexpected functions can be tracked in the fronto-medial cortex.
Dr. Serge Picaud discusses the application fUS imaging to study the neural circuits underlying vision in rats and nonhuman primates. He presents recent research using fUS in rats to study activation of the visual system, and in NHPs to map brain activity and to study ocular dominance columns in the visual cortex.
Key topics will include:
Pierre Pouget
- Using fUS to assess brain activity in non-human primates in a single trial, without averaging
- Possibilities when coupling fUS with electrophysiology and pharmacology
- How fUS imaging can be used to track short and long-term variations in brain activation
Serge Picaud
- Studying activation of neuronal circuits with either prosthetics or optogenetic activation
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An Eye of technology For the people who suffer with PALS (People with ALS). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a debilitating, neurodegenerative disease. Its various symptoms include dysphagia, dysarthria, respiratory distress, pain, and psychological disorders. It is characterized by progressive muscular paralysis reflecting degeneration of motor neurons, conspiratorial tracts and the spinal cord. Most cases of ALS are readily diagnosed and the error rate of diagnosis in large ALS clinics is less than 10%.
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In proteomics, two dimensional gel electrophoresis (2–DE) is a separation technique for proteins.
Gel electrophoresis is registered and the final digital image is computer analyzed for protein spots finding; the protein spots can be detected by visual inspection of a digital gel image or by image processing algorithm. On computer image analysis, difficulties arise from image noise, spot saturation and irregular geometric distortions.
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Industrial IoT - build your industry 4.0 @techitalyGiacomo Veneri
Explore industrial processes, devices, and protocols
Design and implement the I-IoT network flow
Gather and transfer industrial data in a secure way
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Understand diagnostic analytics to answer critical workforce questions
Discover the Edge device and understand Edge and Fog computing
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Raw 2009 -THE ROLE OF LATEST FIXATIONS ON ONGOING VISUAL SEARCH A MODEL TO E...Giacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the selection process, that modulates the exploration mechanism, during the execution of a high cognitively demanding task. The main purpose is to identify the mechanism competition mechanism between top-down and bottom-up. We developed an adaptive system trying to emulate this mechanism.
In proteomics, two dimensional gel electrophoresis (2–DE) is a separation technique for proteins.
Gel electrophoresis is registered and the final digital image is computer analyzed for protein spots finding; the protein spots can be detected by visual inspection of a digital gel image or by image processing algorithm. On computer image analysis, difficulties arise from image noise, spot saturation and irregular geometric distortions.
Aiming at the automated analysis of large series of 2–DE images, the bottleneck is to solve the two most basic algorithmic problems: identifying protein spots and computing the protein spots map in order to compare it to database or different image.
We developed a robust Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) based algorithm able to excite spot in order to be easy found and separated by classic algorithm as edge detection or watershed. The implementation is done in a client standalone application called VisualBio.
EVA – EYE TRACKING - STIMULUS INTEGRATED SEMI AUTOMATIC CASE BASE SYSTEMGiacomo Veneri
In a real world visual search is a common task depending from
sensory, perceptual and cognitive processes. Different classes
of eye movements are necessary to hold an image on the retina
during head rotation or movement of the image, and to move
the eye suddenly to a new point of interest in space. From a
functional point of view, two major classes of eye movements
are described in humans: those stabilizing gaze (optokinetic
nystagmus, oculovestibular reflex) and those movinggaze
(saccades, pursuits and vergence). Under natural conditions,
however, a mix of all kinds of eye movements permit
continuous scanning of the visual scene. The sequence of
fixations and saccades during visual exploration isan
expression of a number of cognitive processes; the use of
standardized tasks with pre-defined spatial-temporal variables
allows us to assess specific cognitive domains, such as
perception, attention, memory, preference and motivation.
Manipulating the search task can vary the demands on brain. In
turn, brain modulates visual search by selecting and limiting
the information available at various levels of processing.
The EVA software is a complete system based on a set of
stimulus and patient’s case able to stress brain functionalities in
order to assess some cognitive functions.
THE ROLE OF LATEST FIXATIONS ON ONGOING VISUAL SEARCH Giacomo Veneri
The aim of the study is to understand the selection process, that modulates the exploration mechanism, during the execution of a high cognitively demanding task. The main purpose is to identify the mechanism competition mechanism between top-down and bottom-up. We developed an adaptive system trying to emulate this mechanism.
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Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
1. Feature-Based Information Processing
of Selective Attention through Entropy
Analysis system
Giacomo Veneri
November 2012
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2. Objectives
• Study the influence of (eye) motor control on
selective attention
• Develop a method to extract motor control
parameters during visual search
• Develop a method to extract selective attention
features during visual search
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Methods Results
Attention
FE
Motor
Control
FE
TMT
ET
Healthy
Subjects
Patients
SCA2,NDC
Psychological Test
3. Selective Attention
• Selective attention ( Posner,
1980) is the process to select
some region of the scene to
be processed in detail; then,
selective attention works as
filter.
• Top-Down: attentional process
that influences sensory
processing in an automatic
and persistent manner
• Bottom-Up: influence on the
nervous system due to
extrinsic properties of the
stimuli
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4. Motor Control and Cerebellum
• The neuronal circuitry of the
cerebellum is thought to
encode internal models that
reproduce the dynamic
properties of body parts
(Kelly2003,Ito2005,Ito2006a).
• These models control the
movement allowing the brain
to precisely control the
movement without the need
for sensory feedback
(Barlow2002,Ito2008,King2011
)
• SCA2 and NDC Patients
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5. Attention and Motor control
(Corbetta2001, Osborne2011)
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6. Methods
1. Veneri, G., Federighi, P., Rosini, F., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2010). Influences of data filtering on human-computer interaction by gaze-contingent
display and eye-tracking applications. Computers in Human Behavior , 26 (6), 1555 - 1563. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.030 [SCOPUS, ACM]
2. Veneri, G., Federighi, P., Rosini, F., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2011, Mar). Spike removal through multiscale wavelet and entropy
analysis of ocular motor noise: A case study in patients with cerebellar disease. Journal of Neuroscience Methods , 196 (2), 318–326.
doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.01.006 [MEDLINE, SCOPUS]
3. Veneri, G., Piu, P., Rosini, F., Federighi, P., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2011). Automatic eye fixations identification based on analysis of variance and
covariance. Pattern Recognition Letters , 32 (13), 1588 - 1593. doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.06.012 [SCOPUS]
4. Veneri, G., Pretegiani, E., Rosini, F., Federighi, P., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2011, Mar). Evaluating the human ongoing visual search performance by
eye tracking application and se-quencing tests. Comput Methods Programs Biomed . Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.02.006
doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.02.006 [SCOPUS. MEDLINE, ACM]
5. Veneri, G., Rosini, F., Federighi, P., Federico, A., & Rufa, A.(2012, Feb). Evaluating gaze control on a multi-target sequenc-ing task:
The distribution of fixations is evidence of exploration optimisation. Comput Biol Med , 42 (2), 235–244. Retrieved from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.11.013 doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.11.013 [SCOPUS. MEDLINE, ACM]
InProceedings
1. Veneri, G., Federighi, P., Pretegiani, E., Rosini, F., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2009). Eye tracking - stimulus integrated semi automatic case base system.
In Proceeding of the 13th world multi-conference on systemics, cybernetics and informatics.
2. Veneri, G., Pretegiani, E., Federighi, P., Rosini, F., & Rufa, A. (2010). Evaluating human visual search performance by monte carlo methods and
heuristic model. In IEEE (Ed.), 10th ieee international conference on information technology and applications in biomedicine (itab 2010). [SCOPUS,
IEEE]
3. Veneri, G., Piu, P., Federighi, P., Rosini, F., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2010, jun.). Eye fixations identification based on statistical analysis - case study. In
Cognitive information processing (cip), 2010 2nd international workshop on (p. 446 -451). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CIP.2010.5604221 [SCOPUS, IEEE]
Others (posters)
1. Veneri, G., Federighi, P., Rosini, F., Pretegiani, E., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2009). The role of latest fixations on ongoing visual search: a model to
evaluate the selection mechanism. In Rovereto workshop of attention.
2. Veneri, G., Olivetti, E., Avesani, P., Federico, A., & Rufa, A. (2011). Bayesian hypothesis on selective attention. In Rovereto visual attention congress.
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7. PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST
Eye Tracking, TMT, ET
Methods Results
Attention
FE
Motor
Control
FE
TMT
ET
Healthy
Subjects
Patients
SCA2,NDC
Psychological Test
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8. Eye Tracking
• Eye tracking is the
process of measuring
either the point of gaze
(where one is looking)
or the motion of an eye
relative to the head.
• ASL 3000 (240Hz)
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9. Visual (conjunction) Search Test
E Search (Wolfe, 1994) Sequencing (Reitan, 1958)
... and others (Veneri 2010, Veneri 2012)
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10. SELECTIVE ATTENTION FEATURES
EXTRACT
Psycological Test, Mathematical Method
Methods Results
Attention
FE
Motor
Control
FE
TMT
ET
Healthy
Subjects
Patients
SCA2,NDC
Psychological Test
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11. Attention Features Extraction 1/2
Common Method
• Visited ROI
• Reaction Time
Our geometric Method (Veneri,
Rosini 2012)
• Distance to nearest Target
• Distance to Nearest ROI
• Sequencing
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DN
DT
12. Sequencing (2/2)
• Look for the best path (Veneri, Rosini 2012)
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13. MOTOR CONTROL FEATURES
EXTRACTION
Wavelet Entropy
Methods Results
Attention
FE
Motor
Control
FE
TMT
ET
Healthy
Subjects
Patients
SCA2,NDC
Psychological Test
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14. Motor Control Noise Evaluation
• (Beers2007, Veneri2011)
gaze noise may be additive
with or multiplicative of the
eye movement, and is lost
in recording noise (RN) due
to blinks or signal loss;
• noise = PN + RN = SDN
(signal) + ADN + RN where
SDN is physiological signal
dependent noise and ADN
physiological additive noise.
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15. Frequency Analysis
Fourier analysis
• A signal is a «sum» of a sine
curve
ECG Example
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17. Decomposed Eye Signal
Original signal
Noise?
Main componet
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18. Wavelet Entropy
The idea (Veneri 2011)
• After decomposition
• We removed spikes
• We evaluated Entropy
• Entropy is the measure of
the chaos on a system
Algorithm
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19. RESULTS
Healthy Subjects and Patients
Methods Results
Attention
FE
Motor
Control
FE
TMT
ET
Healthy
Subjects
Patients
SCA2,NDC
Psychological Test
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24. Entropy levels
All levels Last level
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25. Variance
Signal Signal on fixations
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26. Before conclusions
• Proposed Wavelet
Entropy Implementation
is NOT noise on fixations
or noise of global signal
• Proposed Wavelet
Entropy Implementation
«catches» motor noise
topical featurese of each
subject (colored noise)
• Wavelet Type or levels are
critical
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27. Selective attention
• DT provided a indicator to under-
stand the ability of humans to
converge to the target.
• ANOVA reported significant
difference among groups (F
(2, 35) = 9.476, p < 0.01)
• post-hoc Sidak procedure
confirmed significant
difference between
– CTRL-SCA2 (p CTRL−SCA2 < 0.01),
– CTRL-NDC (p NDC−SCA2 ≤ 0.01);
– no significant dif-ference was
found between SCA2-NDC (p
SCA2−NDC = 0.622).
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28. Correlation DT-E
• Pearson and Spearman test reported correlation between E and DT
for NDC patients (p < 0.05, ρ = 0.892, A), and correlation for SCA2
patients (p < 0.05, ρ = 0.736, B) not confirmed by Spearman (p =
0.18). No correlation was found for CTRL subjects (p = 0.43).
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30. Summary
• In the current work two methods have been developed:
• Selective attention evaluation
• Entropy analysis through wavelet decomposition.
• Both methods are based on eye tracking
• Subjects and patients cannot control eye movements or
fixations perfectly, then, analysing eye motor entropy it is
possible to extract some important features and conclusions.
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31. Tool
1. Import Eye gaze data
2. Export Eye gaze data
3. Fixations recognition
(Veneri, Piu, et al., 2010,
2011; Salvucci & Gold-
berg, 2000)
4. Saccades recognition
(Fischer et al., 1993)
5. TMT sequencing analysis
6. Transition Matrix analysis
7. ROI Analysis
8. Experiment segmentation
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32. Study the influence
• Does the motor control (cerebellum) influence
selective attention?
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33. Cerebellum could influence selective
attention (Top-Down) sending
afferent information of noise in order
to minimize the functional
cost of energy.
Our hypothesis is systematically
supported by recent application of
opti-mal control theory; (Najemnik &
Geisler, 2005), (Beers, 2007) and
(Osborne, 2011) argued that humans’
vision is an optimal mechanism
minimizing the
effect of motor or cognitive noise. Our
findings are compatible with this
hypothesis: patients preferred sparser
fixations avoiding saccade directed to
the
target. The non correlation of DN with
WS suggested that this mechanism
was a strategy to minimize the effort
to control saccade rather than a direct
influence on visual search.
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34. THANKS
Feature-Based Information Processing of Selective Attention through
Entropy Analysis system
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