Medical image segmentation is a frequent processing step in image understanding and computer
aided diagnosis. In this paper, we propose medical image texture segmentation using texture
filter. Three different image enhancement techniques are utilized to remove strong speckle noise as well enhance the weak boundaries of medical images. We propose to exploit the concept of range filtering to extract the texture content of medical image. Experiment is conducted on ImageCLEF2010 database. Results show the efficacy of our proposed medical image texture segmentation.
Survey on Brain MRI Segmentation TechniquesEditor IJMTER
Image segmentation is aimed at cutting out, a ROI (Region of Interest) from an image. For
medical images, segmentation is done for: studying the anatomical structure, identifying ROI ie tumor
or any other abnormalities, identifying the increase in tissue volume in a region, treatment planning.
Currently there are many different algorithms available for image segmentation. This paper lists and
compares some of them. Each has their own advantages and limitations.
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Segmentation of Tumor Region in MRI Images of Brain using Mathematical Morpho...CSCJournals
This paper introduces an efficient detection of brain tumor from cerebral MRI images. The methodology consists of two steps: enhancement and segmentation. To improve the quality of images and limit the risk of distinct regions fusion in the segmentation phase an enhancement process is applied. We applied mathematical morphology to increase the contrast in MRI images and to segment MRI images. Some of experimental results on brain images show the feasibility and the performance of the proposed approach.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
Instant fracture detection using ir-raysijceronline
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A NOVEL APPROACH FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION ON MRI IMAGES FOR BRAIN...cscpconf
Feature extraction is a method of capturing visual content of an image. The feature extraction is
the process to represent raw image in its reduced form to facilitate decision making such as
pattern classification. The objective of this paper is to present a novel method of feature
selection and extraction. This approach combines the Intensity, Texture, shape based features
and classifies the tumor as white matter, Gray matter, CSF, abnormal and normal area. The
experiment is performed on 140 tumor contained brain MR images from the Internet Brain
Segmentation Repository. PCA and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were applied on the
training sets. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier served as a comparison of
nonlinear techniques Vs linear ones. PCA and LDA methods are used to reduce the number of
features used. The feature selection using the proposed technique is more beneficial as it
analyses the data according to grouping class variable and gives reduced feature set with high classification accuracy.
MRIIMAGE SEGMENTATION USING LEVEL SET METHOD AND IMPLEMENT AN MEDICAL DIAGNOS...cseij
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be applied to both simulated and real images with promising results
Survey on Brain MRI Segmentation TechniquesEditor IJMTER
Image segmentation is aimed at cutting out, a ROI (Region of Interest) from an image. For
medical images, segmentation is done for: studying the anatomical structure, identifying ROI ie tumor
or any other abnormalities, identifying the increase in tissue volume in a region, treatment planning.
Currently there are many different algorithms available for image segmentation. This paper lists and
compares some of them. Each has their own advantages and limitations.
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Information Engineering and Technology,
Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,
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Environmental Engineering,
Petroleum and Mining Engineering,
Marine and Agriculture engineering,
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Segmentation of Tumor Region in MRI Images of Brain using Mathematical Morpho...CSCJournals
This paper introduces an efficient detection of brain tumor from cerebral MRI images. The methodology consists of two steps: enhancement and segmentation. To improve the quality of images and limit the risk of distinct regions fusion in the segmentation phase an enhancement process is applied. We applied mathematical morphology to increase the contrast in MRI images and to segment MRI images. Some of experimental results on brain images show the feasibility and the performance of the proposed approach.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
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A NOVEL APPROACH FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION ON MRI IMAGES FOR BRAIN...cscpconf
Feature extraction is a method of capturing visual content of an image. The feature extraction is
the process to represent raw image in its reduced form to facilitate decision making such as
pattern classification. The objective of this paper is to present a novel method of feature
selection and extraction. This approach combines the Intensity, Texture, shape based features
and classifies the tumor as white matter, Gray matter, CSF, abnormal and normal area. The
experiment is performed on 140 tumor contained brain MR images from the Internet Brain
Segmentation Repository. PCA and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) were applied on the
training sets. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier served as a comparison of
nonlinear techniques Vs linear ones. PCA and LDA methods are used to reduce the number of
features used. The feature selection using the proposed technique is more beneficial as it
analyses the data according to grouping class variable and gives reduced feature set with high classification accuracy.
MRIIMAGE SEGMENTATION USING LEVEL SET METHOD AND IMPLEMENT AN MEDICAL DIAGNOS...cseij
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be applied to both simulated and real images with promising results
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.
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.
Image De-noising and Enhancement for Salt and Pepper Noise using Genetic Algo...IDES Editor
Image Enhancement through De-noising is one of
the most important applications of Digital Image Processing
and is still a challenging problem. Images are often received
in defective conditions due to usage of Poor image sensors,
poor data acquisition process and transmission errors etc.,
which creates problems for the subsequent process to
understand such images. The proposed Genetic filter is capable
of removing noise while preserving the fine details, as well as
structural image content. It can be divided into: (i) de-noising
filtering, and (ii) enhancement filtering. Image Denoising
and enhancement are essential part of any image processing
system, whether the processed information is utilized for visual
interpretation or for automatic analysis. The Experimental
results performed on a set of standard test images for a wide
range of noise corruption levels shows that the proposed filter
outperforms standard procedures for salt and pepper removal
both visually and in terms of performance measures such as
PSNR.Genetic algorithms will definitely helpful in solving
various complex image processing tasks in the future.
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.
HYBRID APPROACH FOR NOISE REMOVAL AND IMAGE ENHANCEMENT OF BRAIN TUMORS IN MA...acijjournal
In medical image processing, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of significant diagnostic
techniques. It provides high quality of important information about the analysis of human soft tissue when
measured with CT imaging modalities; hence it is suitable for diagnosis at best. However, if it gives quality
of information, image may distorted by noise because of image acquisition device and transmission. The
noises in MR image reduces the quality of image and also damages the segmentation task which can lead
to faulty diagnosis. Noises have to reduce at the same time there is no information loss. This paper propose
a hybrid approach to enhance the brain tumor MRI images using combined features of Anisotropic
Diffusion Filter (ADF) with Modified Decision Based Unsymmetric Trimmed Median Filter (MDBUTMF).
ADF scheme provides a superior performance by removing noise while preserving image details and
enhancing edges. MDBUTMF helps in image denoising as well as preserving edges satisfactorily when the
noise level is high. The performance of this filter is evaluated by carrying out a qualitative comparison of
this method with other filters namely, ADF filter, Modified Decision Algorithm, Median filter, MDBUTMF.
HIGH RESOLUTION MRI BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE USING HOLDER EXPONENTijsc
Image segmentation is a technique to locate certain objects or boundaries within an image. Image
segmentation plays a crucial role in many medical imaging applications. There are many algorithms and
techniques have been developed to solve image segmentation problems. Spectral pattern is not sufficient in
high resolution image for image segmentation due to variability of spectral and structural information.
Thus the spatial pattern or texture techniques are used. Thus the concept of Holder Exponent for
segmentation of high resolution medical image is an efficient image segmentation technique. The proposed
method is implemented in Matlab and verified using various kinds of high resolution medical images. The
experimental results shows that the proposed image segmentation system is efficient than the existing
segmentation systems.
Classification of Brain Cancer is implemented
by using Back Propagation Neural network and Principle
Component Analysis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of brain
cancer affected patients are taken for classification of brain
cancer. Image processing techniques are used for processing
the MRI images which are image preprocessing, image
segmentation and feature extraction is used. We extract the
Texture feature of segmented image by using Gray Level Cooccurrence
Matrix (GLCM). Steps involve for brain cancer
classification are taking the MRI images, remove the noise by
using image pre-processing, applying the segmentation
method which isolate the tumor region from rest part of the
MRI image by setting the pixel value 1 to tumor region and 0
to rest of the region, after this feature extraction technique
has been applied for extracting texture feature and feature
are stored in knowledge based, this features are used for
classification of new MRI images taken for testing by
comparing the feature of new images with stored features. We
implemented three classifiers to classify the brain cancer, first
classifier is back propagation neural network which perform
classification in two phase which are training phase and
testing phase, second classifier is the combination of PCA and
BPNN means by using PCA to reduce the dimensionality of
feature matrix and by using BPNN to classify the brain
cancer, third classifier is Principle Component Analysis which
reduce the dimensionality of dataset and perform
classification. And finally compare the performance of that
classifiers.
Multitude Regional Texture Extraction for Efficient Medical Image Segmentationinventionjournals
Image processing plays a major role in evaluation of images in many concerns. Manual interpretation of the image is time consuming process and it is susceptible to human errors. Computer assisted approaches for analyzing the images have increased in latest evolution of image processing. Also it has highlighted its performance more in the field of medical sciences. Many techniques are available for the involvement in processing of images, evaluation, extraction etc. The main goal of image segmentation is cluster pixeling the regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects and to simplify and/or change the representation of an image into something that is more meaningful and easier to analyze. The proposed method is to conquer segmentation and texture extraction with Regional and Multitude and techniques involved in it. Ultrasound (US) is increasingly considered as a viable alternative imaging modality in computer-assisted brain segmentation and disease diagnosis applications.First for ultra sound we present region based segmentation.Homogeneous regions depends on image granularity features. Second a local threshold based multitude texture regional seed segmentation for medical image segmentation is proposed. Here extraction is done with dimensions comparable to the speckle size are to be extracted. The algorithm provides a less medical metrics awareness in a minimum user interaction environment. The shape and size of the growing regions depend on look up table entries.
Classification and Segmentation of Glaucomatous Image Using Probabilistic Neu...ijsrd.com
The gradual visual field loss and there is a characteristic type of damage to the retinal nerve fiber layer associated with the progression of the disease glaucoma. Texture features within images are actively pursued for accurate and efficient glaucoma classification. Energy distribution over wavelet subband is applied to find these important texture features. In this paper, we investigate the discriminatory potential of wavelet features obtained from the Daubechies (db3), symlets (sym3), and biorthogonal (bio3.3, bio3.5, and bio3.7) wavelet filters. We propose a novel technique to extract energy signatures obtained using 2-D discrete wavelet transform, and subject these signatures to different feature ranking and feature selection strategies. Here my project aims at the use of Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and K-means helps for the detection of glaucoma disease. For this, fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm and k-means algorithm is used. Fuzzy c-means results faster and reliably good clustering when compare to k-means.
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.
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.
Image De-noising and Enhancement for Salt and Pepper Noise using Genetic Algo...IDES Editor
Image Enhancement through De-noising is one of
the most important applications of Digital Image Processing
and is still a challenging problem. Images are often received
in defective conditions due to usage of Poor image sensors,
poor data acquisition process and transmission errors etc.,
which creates problems for the subsequent process to
understand such images. The proposed Genetic filter is capable
of removing noise while preserving the fine details, as well as
structural image content. It can be divided into: (i) de-noising
filtering, and (ii) enhancement filtering. Image Denoising
and enhancement are essential part of any image processing
system, whether the processed information is utilized for visual
interpretation or for automatic analysis. The Experimental
results performed on a set of standard test images for a wide
range of noise corruption levels shows that the proposed filter
outperforms standard procedures for salt and pepper removal
both visually and in terms of performance measures such as
PSNR.Genetic algorithms will definitely helpful in solving
various complex image processing tasks in the future.
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.
HYBRID APPROACH FOR NOISE REMOVAL AND IMAGE ENHANCEMENT OF BRAIN TUMORS IN MA...acijjournal
In medical image processing, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of significant diagnostic
techniques. It provides high quality of important information about the analysis of human soft tissue when
measured with CT imaging modalities; hence it is suitable for diagnosis at best. However, if it gives quality
of information, image may distorted by noise because of image acquisition device and transmission. The
noises in MR image reduces the quality of image and also damages the segmentation task which can lead
to faulty diagnosis. Noises have to reduce at the same time there is no information loss. This paper propose
a hybrid approach to enhance the brain tumor MRI images using combined features of Anisotropic
Diffusion Filter (ADF) with Modified Decision Based Unsymmetric Trimmed Median Filter (MDBUTMF).
ADF scheme provides a superior performance by removing noise while preserving image details and
enhancing edges. MDBUTMF helps in image denoising as well as preserving edges satisfactorily when the
noise level is high. The performance of this filter is evaluated by carrying out a qualitative comparison of
this method with other filters namely, ADF filter, Modified Decision Algorithm, Median filter, MDBUTMF.
HIGH RESOLUTION MRI BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE USING HOLDER EXPONENTijsc
Image segmentation is a technique to locate certain objects or boundaries within an image. Image
segmentation plays a crucial role in many medical imaging applications. There are many algorithms and
techniques have been developed to solve image segmentation problems. Spectral pattern is not sufficient in
high resolution image for image segmentation due to variability of spectral and structural information.
Thus the spatial pattern or texture techniques are used. Thus the concept of Holder Exponent for
segmentation of high resolution medical image is an efficient image segmentation technique. The proposed
method is implemented in Matlab and verified using various kinds of high resolution medical images. The
experimental results shows that the proposed image segmentation system is efficient than the existing
segmentation systems.
Classification of Brain Cancer is implemented
by using Back Propagation Neural network and Principle
Component Analysis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of brain
cancer affected patients are taken for classification of brain
cancer. Image processing techniques are used for processing
the MRI images which are image preprocessing, image
segmentation and feature extraction is used. We extract the
Texture feature of segmented image by using Gray Level Cooccurrence
Matrix (GLCM). Steps involve for brain cancer
classification are taking the MRI images, remove the noise by
using image pre-processing, applying the segmentation
method which isolate the tumor region from rest part of the
MRI image by setting the pixel value 1 to tumor region and 0
to rest of the region, after this feature extraction technique
has been applied for extracting texture feature and feature
are stored in knowledge based, this features are used for
classification of new MRI images taken for testing by
comparing the feature of new images with stored features. We
implemented three classifiers to classify the brain cancer, first
classifier is back propagation neural network which perform
classification in two phase which are training phase and
testing phase, second classifier is the combination of PCA and
BPNN means by using PCA to reduce the dimensionality of
feature matrix and by using BPNN to classify the brain
cancer, third classifier is Principle Component Analysis which
reduce the dimensionality of dataset and perform
classification. And finally compare the performance of that
classifiers.
Multitude Regional Texture Extraction for Efficient Medical Image Segmentationinventionjournals
Image processing plays a major role in evaluation of images in many concerns. Manual interpretation of the image is time consuming process and it is susceptible to human errors. Computer assisted approaches for analyzing the images have increased in latest evolution of image processing. Also it has highlighted its performance more in the field of medical sciences. Many techniques are available for the involvement in processing of images, evaluation, extraction etc. The main goal of image segmentation is cluster pixeling the regions corresponding to individual surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects and to simplify and/or change the representation of an image into something that is more meaningful and easier to analyze. The proposed method is to conquer segmentation and texture extraction with Regional and Multitude and techniques involved in it. Ultrasound (US) is increasingly considered as a viable alternative imaging modality in computer-assisted brain segmentation and disease diagnosis applications.First for ultra sound we present region based segmentation.Homogeneous regions depends on image granularity features. Second a local threshold based multitude texture regional seed segmentation for medical image segmentation is proposed. Here extraction is done with dimensions comparable to the speckle size are to be extracted. The algorithm provides a less medical metrics awareness in a minimum user interaction environment. The shape and size of the growing regions depend on look up table entries.
Classification and Segmentation of Glaucomatous Image Using Probabilistic Neu...ijsrd.com
The gradual visual field loss and there is a characteristic type of damage to the retinal nerve fiber layer associated with the progression of the disease glaucoma. Texture features within images are actively pursued for accurate and efficient glaucoma classification. Energy distribution over wavelet subband is applied to find these important texture features. In this paper, we investigate the discriminatory potential of wavelet features obtained from the Daubechies (db3), symlets (sym3), and biorthogonal (bio3.3, bio3.5, and bio3.7) wavelet filters. We propose a novel technique to extract energy signatures obtained using 2-D discrete wavelet transform, and subject these signatures to different feature ranking and feature selection strategies. Here my project aims at the use of Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and K-means helps for the detection of glaucoma disease. For this, fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm and k-means algorithm is used. Fuzzy c-means results faster and reliably good clustering when compare to k-means.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TEXTURE IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR CURVELET, CONTOURLET TR...ijfcstjournal
Texture represents spatial or statistical repetition in pixel intensity and orientation. Brain tumor is an
abnormal cell or tissue forms within a brain. In this paper, a model based on texture feature is useful to
detect the MRI brain tumor images. There are two parts, namely; feature extraction process and
classification. First, the texture features are extracted using techniques like Curvelet transform, Contourlet
transform and Local ternary pattern (LTP).
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TEXTURE IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR CURVELET, CONTOURLET TRAN...ijfcstjournal
Texture represents spatial or statistical repetition in pixel intensity and orientation. Brain tumor is an
abnormal cell or tissue forms within a brain. In this paper, a model based on texture feature is useful to
detect the MRI brain tumor images. There are two parts, namely; feature extraction process and
classification. First, the texture features are extracted using techniques like Curvelet transform, Contourlet
transform and Local ternary pattern (LTP). Second, the supervised learning algorithm like Deep neural
network (DNN) is used to classify the brain tumor images. The Experiment is performed on a collection of
1000 brain tumor images with different orientations. Experimental results reveal that contourlet transform
technique provides better than curvelet transform and Local ternary pattern.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TEXTURE IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR CURVELET, CONTOURLET TRAN...ijfcstjournal
Texture represents spatial or statistical repetition in pixel intensity and orientation. Brain tumor is an
abnormal cell or tissue forms within a brain. In this paper, a model based on texture feature is useful to
detect the MRI brain tumor images. There are two parts, namely; feature extraction process and
classification. First, the texture features are extracted using techniques like Curvelet transform, Contourlet
transform and Local ternary pattern (LTP). Second, the supervised learning algorithm like Deep neural
network (DNN) is used to classify the brain tumor images. The Experiment is performed on a collection of
1000 brain tumor images with different orientations. Experimental results reveal that contourlet transform
technique provides better than curvelet transform and Local ternary pattern.
Medical Image segmentation using Image Mining conceptsEditor IJMTER
Image differencing is usually done by subtracting the low-level skin texture like strength
in images that are already associated. This paper extracts high-level skin texture in order to find out
an efficient image differencing method for the analysis of Brain Tumor. On the other hand, this
produces sets of skin texture that are both spatial. We demonstrate a technique that avoids arbitrary
spatial constraints and is robust in the presence of sound, outliers, and imaging artifact, while
outperforming even profitable products in the analysis of Brain Tumor images. First, the landmark
are establish, and then the top entrant are sorted into a end set. Second, the top sets of the two
descriptions are then differenced through a cluster judgment. The symmetry of the human body is
utilized to increase the accuracy of the finding. We imitate this technique in an effort to understand
and ultimately capture the judgment of the radiologist. The image differencing with clustered
contrast process determines the being there of Brain Tumor. Using the most favorable features
extracted from normal and tumor regions of MRI by using arithmetical features, classifiers are used
to categorize and segment the tumor portion in irregular images. Both the difficult and preparation
phase gives the proportion of accuracy on each parameter in neural networks, which gives the idea to
decide the best one to be used in supplementary works. The results showed outperformance of
algorithm when compared with classification accuracy which works as shows potential tool for
classification and requires extension in brain tumor analysis.
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BFO – AIS: A Framework for Medical Image Classification Using Soft Computing ...ijsc
Medical images provide diagnostic evidence/information about anatomical pathology. The growth in database is enormous as medical digital image equipment’s like Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Positron Emission Tomography CT (PET-CT) are part of clinical work. CT images distinguish various tissues according to gray levels to help medical diagnosis. Ct is more reliable for early tumours and haemorrhages detection as it provides anatomical information to plan radio therapy. Medical information systems goals are to deliver information to right persons at the right time and place to improve care process quality and efficiency. This paper proposes an Artificial Immune System (AIS) classifier and proposed feature selection based on hybrid Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) with Local Search (LS) for medical image classification.
BFO – AIS: A FRAME WORK FOR MEDICAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING SOFT COMPUTING...ijsc
Medical images provide diagnostic evidence/information about anatomical pathology. The growth in
database is enormous as medical digital image equipment’s like Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI),
Computed Tomography (CT), and Positron Emission Tomography CT (PET-CT) are part of clinical work.
CT images distinguish various tissues according to gray levels to help medical diagnosis. Ct is more
reliable for early tumours and haemorrhages detection as it provides anatomical information to plan radio
therapy. Medical information systems goals are to deliver information to right persons at the right time and
place to improve care process quality and efficiency. This paper proposes an Artificial Immune System
(AIS) classifier and proposed feature selection based on hybrid Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)
with Local Search (LS) for medical image classification.
MRI Image Segmentation Using Level Set Method and Implement an Medical Diagno...CSEIJJournal
Image segmentation plays a vital role in image processing over the last few years. The goal of image
segmentation is to cluster the pixels into salient image regions i.e., regions corresponding to individual
surfaces, objects, or natural parts of objects. In this paper, we propose a medical diagnosis system by using
level set method for segmenting the MRI image which investigates a new variational level set algorithm
without re- initialization to segment the MRI image and to implement a competent medical diagnosis
system by using MATLAB. Here we have used the speed function and the signed distance function of the
image in segmentation algorithm. This system consists of thresholding technique, curve evolution technique
and an eroding technique. Our proposed system was tested on some MRI Brain images, giving promising
results by detecting the normal or abnormal condition specially the existence of tumers. This system will be
applied to both simulated and real images with promising results.
FUZZY SEGMENTATION OF MRI CEREBRAL TISSUE USING LEVEL SET ALGORITHMAM Publications
The current study investigated a median filter with the fuzzy level set method to propose fuzzy segmentation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cerebral tissue images. An MRI image was used as an input image. A median filter and fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering were utilized to remove image noise and create image clusters, respectively. The image clusters showed initial and final cluster centers. The level set method was then used for segmentation after separating and extracting white matter from gray matter. Fuzzy c-means was sensitive to the choice of the initial cluster center. Improper center selection caused the method to produce suboptimal solutions. The proposed algorithm was successfully utilized to segment MRI cerebral tissue images. The algorithm efficiently performed segmentation of test MRI cerebral tissue images compared with algorithms proposed in previous studies.
ANALYSIS OF LAND SURFACE DEFORMATION GRADIENT BY DINSAR cscpconf
The progressive development of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems diversify the exploitation of the generated images by these systems in different applications of geoscience. Detection and monitoring surface deformations, procreated by various phenomena had benefited from this evolution and had been realized by interferometry (InSAR) and differential interferometry (DInSAR) techniques. Nevertheless, spatial and temporal decorrelations of the interferometric couples used, limit strongly the precision of analysis results by these techniques. In this context, we propose, in this work, a methodological approach of surface deformation detection and analysis by differential interferograms to show the limits of this technique according to noise quality and level. The detectability model is generated from the deformation signatures, by simulating a linear fault merged to the images couples of ERS1 / ERS2 sensors acquired in a region of the Algerian south.
4D AUTOMATIC LIP-READING FOR SPEAKER'S FACE IDENTIFCATIONcscpconf
A novel based a trajectory-guided, concatenating approach for synthesizing high-quality image real sample renders video is proposed . The lips reading automated is seeking for modeled the closest real image sample sequence preserve in the library under the data video to the HMM predicted trajectory. The object trajectory is modeled obtained by projecting the face patterns into an KDA feature space is estimated. The approach for speaker's face identification by using synthesise the identity surface of a subject face from a small sample of patterns which sparsely each the view sphere. An KDA algorithm use to the Lip-reading image is discrimination, after that work consisted of in the low dimensional for the fundamental lip features vector is reduced by using the 2D-DCT.The mouth of the set area dimensionality is ordered by a normally reduction base on the PCA to obtain the Eigen lips approach, their proposed approach by[33]. The subjective performance results of the cost function under the automatic lips reading modeled , which wasn’t illustrate the superior performance of the
method.
MOVING FROM WATERFALL TO AGILE PROCESS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CAPSTONE PROJE...cscpconf
Universities offer software engineering capstone course to simulate a real world-working environment in which students can work in a team for a fixed period to deliver a quality product. The objective of the paper is to report on our experience in moving from Waterfall process to Agile process in conducting the software engineering capstone project. We present the capstone course designs for both Waterfall driven and Agile driven methodologies that highlight the structure, deliverables and assessment plans.To evaluate the improvement, we conducted a survey for two different sections taught by two different instructors to evaluate students’ experience in moving from traditional Waterfall model to Agile like process. Twentyeight students filled the survey. The survey consisted of eight multiple-choice questions and an open-ended question to collect feedback from students. The survey results show that students were able to attain hands one experience, which simulate a real world-working environment. The results also show that the Agile approach helped students to have overall better design and avoid mistakes they have made in the initial design completed in of the first phase of the capstone project. In addition, they were able to decide on their team capabilities, training needs and thus learn the required technologies earlier which is reflected on the final product quality
PROMOTING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT USING SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIEScscpconf
Using social media in education provides learners with an informal way for communication. Informal communication tends to remove barriers and hence promotes student engagement. This paper presents our experience in using three different social media technologies in teaching software project management course. We conducted different surveys at the end of every semester to evaluate students’ satisfaction and engagement. Results show that using social media enhances students’ engagement and satisfaction. However, familiarity with the tool is an important factor for student satisfaction.
A SURVEY ON QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS: THE ADVANCES OF FUZZY LOGICcscpconf
In real world computing environment with using a computer to answer questions has been a human dream since the beginning of the digital era, Question-answering systems are referred to as intelligent systems, that can be used to provide responses for the questions being asked by the user based on certain facts or rules stored in the knowledge base it can generate answers of questions asked in natural , and the first main idea of fuzzy logic was to working on the problem of computer understanding of natural language, so this survey paper provides an overview on what Question-Answering is and its system architecture and the possible relationship and
different with fuzzy logic, as well as the previous related research with respect to approaches that were followed. At the end, the survey provides an analytical discussion of the proposed QA models, along or combined with fuzzy logic and their main contributions and limitations.
DYNAMIC PHONE WARPING – A METHOD TO MEASURE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN PRONUNCIATIONS cscpconf
Human beings generate different speech waveforms while speaking the same word at different times. Also, different human beings have different accents and generate significantly varying speech waveforms for the same word. There is a need to measure the distances between various words which facilitate preparation of pronunciation dictionaries. A new algorithm called Dynamic Phone Warping (DPW) is presented in this paper. It uses dynamic programming technique for global alignment and shortest distance measurements. The DPW algorithm can be used to enhance the pronunciation dictionaries of the well-known languages like English or to build pronunciation dictionaries to the less known sparse languages. The precision measurement experiments show 88.9% accuracy.
INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT FOR SUBJECTIVE EXAMS cscpconf
In education, the use of electronic (E) examination systems is not a novel idea, as Eexamination systems have been used to conduct objective assessments for the last few years. This research deals with randomly designed E-examinations and proposes an E-assessment system that can be used for subjective questions. This system assesses answers to subjective questions by finding a matching ratio for the keywords in instructor and student answers. The matching ratio is achieved based on semantic and document similarity. The assessment system is composed of four modules: preprocessing, keyword expansion, matching, and grading. A survey and case study were used in the research design to validate the proposed system. The examination assessment system will help instructors to save time, costs, and resources, while increasing efficiency and improving the productivity of exam setting and assessments.
TWO DISCRETE BINARY VERSIONS OF AFRICAN BUFFALO OPTIMIZATION METAHEURISTICcscpconf
African Buffalo Optimization (ABO) is one of the most recent swarms intelligence based metaheuristics. ABO algorithm is inspired by the buffalo’s behavior and lifestyle. Unfortunately, the standard ABO algorithm is proposed only for continuous optimization problems. In this paper, the authors propose two discrete binary ABO algorithms to deal with binary optimization problems. In the first version (called SBABO) they use the sigmoid function and probability model to generate binary solutions. In the second version (called LBABO) they use some logical operator to operate the binary solutions. Computational results on two knapsack problems (KP and MKP) instances show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and their ability to achieve good and promising solutions.
DETECTION OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED MALICIOUS DOMAINcscpconf
In recent years, many malware writers have relied on Dynamic Domain Name Services (DDNS) to maintain their Command and Control (C&C) network infrastructure to ensure a persistence presence on a compromised host. Amongst the various DDNS techniques, Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) is often perceived as the most difficult to detect using traditional methods. This paper presents an approach for detecting DGA using frequency analysis of the character distribution and the weighted scores of the domain names. The approach’s feasibility is demonstrated using a range of legitimate domains and a number of malicious algorithmicallygenerated domain names. Findings from this study show that domain names made up of English characters “a-z” achieving a weighted score of < 45 are often associated with DGA. When a weighted score of < 45 is applied to the Alexa one million list of domain names, only 15% of the domain names were treated as non-human generated.
GLOBAL MUSIC ASSET ASSURANCE DIGITAL CURRENCY: A DRM SOLUTION FOR STREAMING C...cscpconf
The amount of piracy in the streaming digital content in general and the music industry in specific is posing a real challenge to digital content owners. This paper presents a DRM solution to monetizing, tracking and controlling online streaming content cross platforms for IP enabled devices. The paper benefits from the current advances in Blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Specifically, the paper presents a Global Music Asset Assurance (GoMAA) digital currency and presents the iMediaStreams Blockchain to enable the secure dissemination and tracking of the streamed content. The proposed solution provides the data owner the ability to control the flow of information even after it has been released by creating a secure, selfinstalled, cross platform reader located on the digital content file header. The proposed system provides the content owners’ options to manage their digital information (audio, video, speech, etc.), including the tracking of the most consumed segments, once it is release. The system benefits from token distribution between the content owner (Music Bands), the content distributer (Online Radio Stations) and the content consumer(Fans) on the system blockchain.
IMPORTANCE OF VERB SUFFIX MAPPING IN DISCOURSE TRANSLATION SYSTEMcscpconf
This paper discusses the importance of verb suffix mapping in Discourse translation system. In
discourse translation, the crucial step is Anaphora resolution and generation. In Anaphora
resolution, cohesion links like pronouns are identified between portions of text. These binders
make the text cohesive by referring to nouns appearing in the previous sentences or nouns
appearing in sentences after them. In Machine Translation systems, to convert the source
language sentences into meaningful target language sentences the verb suffixes should be
changed as per the cohesion links identified. This step of translation process is emphasized in
the present paper. Specifically, the discussion is on how the verbs change according to the
subjects and anaphors. To explain the concept, English is used as the source language (SL) and
an Indian language Telugu is used as Target language (TL)
EXACT SOLUTIONS OF A FAMILY OF HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME FRACTIONAL KDV-T...cscpconf
In this paper, based on the definition of conformable fractional derivative, the functional
variable method (FVM) is proposed to seek the exact traveling wave solutions of two higherdimensional
space-time fractional KdV-type equations in mathematical physics, namely the
(3+1)-dimensional space–time fractional Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation and the (2+1)-
dimensional space–time fractional Generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony
(GZK-BBM) equation. Some new solutions are procured and depicted. These solutions, which
contain kink-shaped, singular kink, bell-shaped soliton, singular soliton and periodic wave
solutions, have many potential applications in mathematical physics and engineering. The
simplicity and reliability of the proposed method is verified.
AUTOMATED PENETRATION TESTING: AN OVERVIEWcscpconf
The using of information technology resources is rapidly increasing in organizations,
businesses, and even governments, that led to arise various attacks, and vulnerabilities in the
field. All resources make it a must to do frequently a penetration test (PT) for the environment
and see what can the attacker gain and what is the current environment's vulnerabilities. This
paper reviews some of the automated penetration testing techniques and presents its
enhancement over the traditional manual approaches. To the best of our knowledge, it is the
first research that takes into consideration the concept of penetration testing and the standards
in the area.This research tackles the comparison between the manual and automated
penetration testing, the main tools used in penetration testing. Additionally, compares between
some methodologies used to build an automated penetration testing platform.
CLASSIFICATION OF ALZHEIMER USING fMRI DATA AND BRAIN NETWORKcscpconf
Since the mid of 1990s, functional connectivity study using fMRI (fcMRI) has drawn increasing
attention of neuroscientists and computer scientists, since it opens a new window to explore
functional network of human brain with relatively high resolution. BOLD technique provides
almost accurate state of brain. Past researches prove that neuro diseases damage the brain
network interaction, protein- protein interaction and gene-gene interaction. A number of
neurological research paper also analyse the relationship among damaged part. By
computational method especially machine learning technique we can show such classifications.
In this paper we used OASIS fMRI dataset affected with Alzheimer’s disease and normal
patient’s dataset. After proper processing the fMRI data we use the processed data to form
classifier models using SVM (Support Vector Machine), KNN (K- nearest neighbour) & Naïve
Bayes. We also compare the accuracy of our proposed method with existing methods. In future,
we will other combinations of methods for better accuracy.
VALIDATION METHOD OF FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES BASED ON FUZZY FORMAL CONCEPT AN...cscpconf
In order to treat and analyze real datasets, fuzzy association rules have been proposed. Several
algorithms have been introduced to extract these rules. However, these algorithms suffer from
the problems of utility, redundancy and large number of extracted fuzzy association rules. The
expert will then be confronted with this huge amount of fuzzy association rules. The task of
validation becomes fastidious. In order to solve these problems, we propose a new validation
method. Our method is based on three steps. (i) We extract a generic base of non redundant
fuzzy association rules by applying EFAR-PN algorithm based on fuzzy formal concept analysis.
(ii) we categorize extracted rules into groups and (iii) we evaluate the relevance of these rules
using structural equation model.
PROBABILITY BASED CLUSTER EXPANSION OVERSAMPLING TECHNIQUE FOR IMBALANCED DATAcscpconf
In many applications of data mining, class imbalance is noticed when examples in one class are
overrepresented. Traditional classifiers result in poor accuracy of the minority class due to the
class imbalance. Further, the presence of within class imbalance where classes are composed of
multiple sub-concepts with different number of examples also affect the performance of
classifier. In this paper, we propose an oversampling technique that handles between class and
within class imbalance simultaneously and also takes into consideration the generalization
ability in data space. The proposed method is based on two steps- performing Model Based
Clustering with respect to classes to identify the sub-concepts; and then computing the
separating hyperplane based on equal posterior probability between the classes. The proposed
method is tested on 10 publicly available data sets and the result shows that the proposed
method is statistically superior to other existing oversampling methods.
CHARACTER AND IMAGE RECOGNITION FOR DATA CATALOGING IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCHcscpconf
Data collection is an essential, but manpower intensive procedure in ecological research. An
algorithm was developed by the author which incorporated two important computer vision
techniques to automate data cataloging for butterfly measurements. Optical Character
Recognition is used for character recognition and Contour Detection is used for imageprocessing.
Proper pre-processing is first done on the images to improve accuracy. Although
there are limitations to Tesseract’s detection of certain fonts, overall, it can successfully identify
words of basic fonts. Contour detection is an advanced technique that can be utilized to
measure an image. Shapes and mathematical calculations are crucial in determining the precise
location of the points on which to draw the body and forewing lines of the butterfly. Overall,
92% accuracy were achieved by the program for the set of butterflies measured.
SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND EVENT DETECTION IN SMART CI...cscpconf
Smart cities utilize Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors to enhance the quality of the city
services including energy, transportation, health, and much more. They generate massive
volumes of structured and unstructured data on a daily basis. Also, social networks, such as
Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, are becoming a new source of real-time information in smart
cities. Social network users are acting as social sensors. These datasets so large and complex
are difficult to manage with conventional data management tools and methods. To become
valuable, this massive amount of data, known as 'big data,' needs to be processed and
comprehended to hold the promise of supporting a broad range of urban and smart cities
functions, including among others transportation, water, and energy consumption, pollution
surveillance, and smart city governance. In this work, we investigate how social media analytics
help to analyze smart city data collected from various social media sources, such as Twitter and
Facebook, to detect various events taking place in a smart city and identify the importance of
events and concerns of citizens regarding some events. A case scenario analyses the opinions of
users concerning the traffic in three largest cities in the UAE
SOCIAL NETWORK HATE SPEECH DETECTION FOR AMHARIC LANGUAGEcscpconf
The anonymity of social networks makes it attractive for hate speech to mask their criminal
activities online posing a challenge to the world and in particular Ethiopia. With this everincreasing
volume of social media data, hate speech identification becomes a challenge in
aggravating conflict between citizens of nations. The high rate of production, has become
difficult to collect, store and analyze such big data using traditional detection methods. This
paper proposed the application of apache spark in hate speech detection to reduce the
challenges. Authors developed an apache spark based model to classify Amharic Facebook
posts and comments into hate and not hate. Authors employed Random forest and Naïve Bayes
for learning and Word2Vec and TF-IDF for feature selection. Tested by 10-fold crossvalidation,
the model based on word2vec embedding performed best with 79.83%accuracy. The
proposed method achieve a promising result with unique feature of spark for big data.
GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK BASED POS TAGGING FOR NEPALI TEXTcscpconf
This article presents Part of Speech tagging for Nepali text using General Regression Neural
Network (GRNN). The corpus is divided into two parts viz. training and testing. The network is
trained and validated on both training and testing data. It is observed that 96.13% words are
correctly being tagged on training set whereas 74.38% words are tagged correctly on testing
data set using GRNN. The result is compared with the traditional Viterbi algorithm based on
Hidden Markov Model. Viterbi algorithm yields 97.2% and 40% classification accuracies on
training and testing data sets respectively. GRNN based POS Tagger is more consistent than the
traditional Viterbi decoding technique.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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the graph-based segmentation methods that it is computationally efficient for capturing
perceptually the important aspects of image regions. However, it is prone to cause the problem of
over segmentation with some long and narrow redundant areas between two regions. In [2],
authors describe an improved segmentation algorithm based on Minimum Spanning Tree (MST).
To overcome the problem of over segmentation, an adaptive neighbour mode is defined by
adding links between non-neighbour pixels of an image. They explored their proposed segmented
method on three different modalities of medical images such as MR, CT and X-ray.
Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) snake model is used in image segmentation. In [3], GVF snake is
proposed to overcome the inability of tracking concavityat boundary. However, noise existing in
medical images may cause the boundaries of medical images not to converge.Hence, in these
complicated images GVF still fails to capture object contours. To improve GVF snake model,
Chuag and Li [11] proposed a new downstream algorithm based on Extended Gradient Vector
Flow (E-GVF) for segmentation of multi-objects.In [7], they focused on texture features as well
as region growing algorithm to automate segmentation of the MR images. Co-occurrence texture
features and semi-variogram texture features are extracted from the image and then the seeded
region growing algorithm is run on these feature spaces. With a given region of interest, a seed
point is automatically picked up based on three homogeneity criteria. Medical ultrasound images
are poor in contrast and they have strong speckle noise. Hence, traditional image segmentation
methods fail to segment the ultrasound images satisfactorily. In [6], the ultrasound images are
segmented using texture feature and graph cut method. The texture feature parameters are
obtained according to the Gary level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM).
From the literature survey it is observed that a number of segmentation methods are applied on
only specific anatomical structure such as the use of GVF for segmentation of kidney images.
Moreover, the proposed methods are exploited on particular medical imaging modalities.
Furthermore, the well-known characteristics of medical images such as unknown noise, poor
image contrast, inhomogenity and weak boundaries affect the anatomical structure resulting in
poor segmentation. In this direction, we propose an algorithm to segment medical images that
include various anatomical structures belonging to different medical imaging modalities such as
X-ray, CT, MR, US, PET, PET-CT, Xr-Angio, NM, Micro. Besides, the poor characteristics of
medical images are moderated to have accurate medical image segmentation. The characteristic
of regions in an image are analyzed by their texture content.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Image filtering is discussed in section 2. Our
proposed algorithm for texture segmentation of medical images is explained in section 3. Section
4 gives the details of the experiments followed by the results. The paper is concluded in section 5.
2. IMAGE FILTERING
Filtering is perhaps the most fundamental operation of image processing. The term filtering can
be defined as the value of the filtered image at a given location. It is a function of the values of
the input image in a small neighbourhood of the same location. Filter operations can be used to
sharpen or blur images, to selectively suppress image noise, to detect and enhance edges, or to
alter the contrast of the image. The filters use the local statistical variations in an image to reveal
elements of the image texture.
2.1. Analyzing the Texture of an Image
Texture analysis refers to the characterization of regions in an image by their texture content.
Texture analysis attempts to quantify intuitive qualities described by terms such as rough,
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smooth, silky or bumpy as a function of the spatial variation in pixel intensities. In this sense, the
roughness or bumpiness refers to variations in the intensity values or gray levels.
Texture analysis is used in a variety of applications, including remote sensing, automated
inspection and medical image processing. Texture analysis can be used to find the texture
boundaries and texture segmentation. Texture analysis can be helpful when objects in an image
are more characterized by their texture than by intensity and hence, traditional thresholding
techniques cannot be used effectively. The texture analysis functions such as range filtering,
standard deviation filtering and entropy filtering, filter an image using standard statistical
measures. These statistics can characterize the texture of an image. They provide information
about the local variability of the pixels intensity values in an image. In the areas with smooth
texture, the range values in the neighbourhood around a pixel will be small and similarity,the
range values are large in the areas of rough texture.
The texture functions all operate in a similar way. They define a neighbourhood around the pixel
of interest calculate the statistic for that neighbourhood and use the computed statistic value as
the value of the pixel of interest in the output image. The example shown in Figure 1 illustrates
how the range filtering function operates on a simple matrix. In this example, the value of
element B (2, 4) is calculated from A (2, 4). Range filtering function use m by n pixels, in this
example 3 × 3, neighbourhood around the pixels.
Figure1.Range filtering function
3. PROPOSED METHOD
Image texture includes the local spatial pattern, scale and magnitude of brightness variations,
smoothness or roughness of the image. The output image can be used as the basis for further
image analysis such as image texture segmentation. Hence, in this paper we exploit 3 different
kinds of image enhancement technique to remove the strong speckle noise existing in a medical
image as well image edge enhancement. The details are explained in section 3.1. We propose
texture filtering to segment medical image texture. We propose to utilize the range filtering for
segmentation.Image texture segmentation using range filtering is discussed in section 3.2.
3.1. Pre-processing
The contrast of medical images is very low and these images have strong speckle noise. We apply
2D adaptive noise-removal, median and 2D order-statistic filtering to remove the noise and
enhance the weak boundaries of medical images. 2D adaptive noise removal is a low-pass filter
on gray scale images. 2D adaptive noise removal uses a pixel wise adaptive wiener method based
on the statistics estimated, mean and standard deviation, from a local neighbourhood of size m by
n for each pixel. Result of image enhancement using 2D adaptive noise removal is shown in
Figure 2(b). To remove ‘salt and pepper’ noise existing in medical images, we use median
filtering. Median filtering is a nonlinear operation which is very effective to simultaneously
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reduce noise and preserve edges. Each output pixel contains the median value in p by q
neighbourhood around the corresponding pixel of the input image. Figure 2(c) shows removal of
“salt and pepper” noise from a medical image using median filtering. The order statistic filter is
then applied to enhance the regions of an anatomical structure. The 2D order-statistic filtering
replaces each pixel of an image by the nth
order element in the sorted set of neighbours of size r by
s specified by the nonzero elements in domain. Image edge enhancement using 2D order-statistics
filtering is shown in Figure 2(d). In this paper, the medical image pre-processing step is done by
the three discussed image enhancement functions as shown in Figure 2(e).
(a)
(b) (c) (d)
(e)
Figure2.(a) Original image. (b) Applied adaptive noise removal on an image.
(c) Applied median filtering on an image. (d) Applied order-statistic filtering on an image.
(e) Pre-processedimage.
3.2. Image Texture Segmentation
Medical image segmentation is a critical task for analyzing the structural content of the images.
Surgical planning, early disease detection and 3D visualization can be provided for the physicians
by proper image segmentation. Medical image texture segmentation can be widely applicable to
evaluate an area of body that is not externally visible. The texture filter function can detect the
texture regions of a medical image. It can be argued that there is a little variation in the gray level
values of the background of medical imagessince the background is smooth.Hence in the
foreground the surface contours of the anatomical structure exhibit more texture. Therefore, the
foreground pixels of medical images have more variability and thus higher range values. Range
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filtering is one of the texture analysis methods that filter an image. Range filtering makes the
edges and contours of the anatomical structures of medical images become more
apparent.Consequently, the range filtering is explored for medical image texture segmentation as
explained in the following sub section.
3.2.1. Range Filtering
A local sub range filtering uses the statistical sub range of the pixel intensities within the window.
The range distance is often used in statistics as a measure of the sample variation. Edges are
typically characterized by discontinuities in mean intensity. If the variations existing among the
local intensity values are low then the local range distance is small. Similarly, the local range
distance is large if a region has large discontinuities in intensity values. Hence, range filtering is
able to detect pixel intensity values of the edges within a window.The output of the range filtering
is the difference between maximum and minimum range values of the filtered window. The range
values in the filtered window are multiplied by a constant value to provide strong edges. Local
range filtering tend to have short calculation time as it operates on only a small number of
input for each output pixel.Moreover, range filtering can have better segmentation through
creating a structure element to extract the neighbourhood for the local range of values. Hence a
structuring element is created to extract the neighbourhood for the local range of values. Figure 3
illustrates the range filtered medical image using the defined structure element.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 3.(a) Pre-processedimage. (b) Range filtered medical image using horizontal
linestructure. (c) Range filtered image using vertical line structure.
4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
4.1 Image Dataset
In this paper, ImageCLEF2010 database is used for segmentation of medical images. Experiments
are conducted on different medical imaging modalities having different sizes. The medical
imaging modalities are nine in number namely, Compute Tomography (CT), Magnetic
Resonance (MR), Ultrasound (US), Nuclear Medicine (NM), Xr-Angio, Positron Emission
Tomography (PET), PET-CT, Micro and X-ray. Medical images include various anatomical
structures and image orientation.
4.2 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
Medical images contain strong speckle noise. To remove noise and smooth the images we have
applied 2D adaptive noise removal using neighbourhood of size 3 by 3. Moreover, medical
images suffer from “salt and paper” noise. We remove the existing ‘salt and paper’ noise using
median filtering. Each output pixel contains the median value of 9 by 9 neighbourhoods
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surrounding the pixel of the input image. Further, It is well known that the content of medical
images are inhomogeneous having weak boundaries. We use 2D order-statistic filtering by the 3rd
order element in the sorted set of neighbours of size 3 by 3 in domain.
We have exploited range filtering using ‘line’ structure element of size 1×2 and 2×1 in horizontal
and vertical directions respectively. Next, we have applied sum operation on the images extracted
using range filtering in both horizontal and vertical directions. Figure 4(a) shows the added image
obtained from the medical images illustrated in Figure 3(b) and 3(c) respectively. In addition, to
improve the extracted edges of the ranged filtered medical image shown in Figure 4(a) we scale
the image by multiplying with the fix value of ‘k’. In this experiment, the value of ‘k’ is set to 20
empirically. Figure 4(b) illustrates the scaled range filtered medical image.
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(a) (b)
Figure 4.(a) Range filteredmedical images after filtering in horizontal and vertical directions are
added. (b) Scaled range filtered medical image.
Next, we have used ‘clean’ morphological operation to remove all detected isolated pixels. Figure
5 demonstrates the segmentation of the anatomical structure medical image using our proposed
texture segmentation method.
(a) (b)
Figure 5.(a) Original image. (b) Medical imagesegmentation.
In this paper, experiments are conducted on nine different medical imaging modalities having
different anatomical structures. The proposed medical image texture segmentation using range
filtering is shown in Figure 6.
5. CONCLUSION
In this paper, 2D adaptive noise removal, median and 2D order-statistic filtering are applied to
remove strong speckle noise and enhance the weak boundaries of medical images. We segment
various anatomical structures of different medical imaging modalities using texture filtering. The
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range filtering is exploited for medical image texture segmentation.Results show the efficiency,
simplicity and robustness of medical image texture segmentation
(a)CT (b)MR (c)Xray
(d)US (e)Xr-Angio (f)PET
(g)PET-CT (h)Micro (i)NM
Figure 6.(a-i)Segmented anatomical structures of differentmedical imagingmodalities.
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