The staggered distribution of joints and fissures in space constitutes the weak part of any rock mass.The identification of rock mass structural planes and the extraction of characteristic parameters are the basis of ...The staggered distribution of joints and fissures in space constitutes the weak part of any rock mass.The identification of rock mass structural planes and the extraction of characteristic parameters are the basis of rock-mass integrity evaluation,which is very important for analysis of slope stability.The laser scanning technique can be used to acquire the coordinate information pertaining to each point of the structural plane,but large amount of point cloud data,uneven density distribution,and noise point interference make the identification efficiency and accuracy of different types of structural planes limited by point cloud data analysis technology.A new point cloud identification and segmentation algorithm for rock mass structural surfaces is proposed.Based on the distribution states of the original point cloud in different neighborhoods in space,the point clouds are characterized by multi-dimensional eigenvalues and calculated by the robust randomized Hough transform(RRHT).The normal vector difference and the final eigenvalue are proposed for characteristic distinction,and the identification of rock mass structural surfaces is completed through regional growth,which strengthens the difference expression of point clouds.In addition,nearest Voxel downsampling is also introduced in the RRHT calculation,which further reduces the number of sources of neighborhood noises,thereby improving the accuracy and stability of the calculation.The advantages of the method have been verified by laboratory models.The results showed that the proposed method can better achieve the segmentation and statistics of structural planes with interfaces and sharp boundaries.The method works well in the identification of joints,fissures,and other structural planes on Mangshezhai slope in the Three Gorges Reservoir area,China.It can provide a stable and effective technique for the identification and segmentation of rock mass structural planes,which is beneficial in engineering practice.展开更多
Steganography technology has been widely used in data transmission with secret information.However,the existing steganography has the disadvantages of low hidden information capacity,poor visual effect of cover images...Steganography technology has been widely used in data transmission with secret information.However,the existing steganography has the disadvantages of low hidden information capacity,poor visual effect of cover images,and is hard to guarantee security.To solve these problems,steganography using reversible texture synthesis based on seeded region growing and LSB is proposed.Secret information is embedded in the process of synthesizing texture image from the existing natural texture.Firstly,we refine the visual effect.Abnormality of synthetic texture cannot be fully prevented if no approach of controlling visual effect is applied in the process of generating synthetic texture.We use seeded region growing algorithm to ensure texture’s similar local appearance.Secondly,the size and capacity of image can be decreased by introducing the information segmentation,because the capacity of the secret information is proportional to the size of the synthetic texture.Thirdly,enhanced security is also a contribution in this research,because our method does not need to transmit parameters for secret information extraction.LSB is used to embed these parameters in the synthetic texture.展开更多
This study attempted to accurately segment the mammographic masses and distinguish malignant from benign tumors.An adaptive region growing algorithm with hybrid assessment function combined with maximum likelihood ana...This study attempted to accurately segment the mammographic masses and distinguish malignant from benign tumors.An adaptive region growing algorithm with hybrid assessment function combined with maximum likelihood analysis and maximum gradient analysis was developed in this paper.In order to accommodate different situations of masses,the likelihood and the edge gradients of segmented masses were weighted adaptively by the use of information entropy.106 benign and 110 malignant tumors were included in this study.We found that the proposed algorithm obtained segmentation contour more accurately and delineated the tumor body as well as tumor peripheral regions covering typical mass boundaries and some spiculation patterns.Then the segmented results were evaluated by the classification accuracy.42 features including age,intensity,shape and texture were extracted from each segmented mass and support vector machine(SVM)was used as a classifier.The classification accuracy was evaluated using the area(A_(z))under the receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve.It was found that the maximum likelihood analysis achieved an A_(z)value of 0.835,the maximum gradient analysis got an A_(z)value of 0.932 and the hybrid assessment function performed the best classification result where the value of A_(z)was 0.948.In addition,compared with traditional region growing algorithm,our proposed algorithm is more adaptive and provides a better performance for future works.展开更多
Images captured outdoor usually degenerate because of the bad weather conditions,among which fog,one of the widespread phenomena,affects the video quality greatly.The physical features of fog make the video blurred an...Images captured outdoor usually degenerate because of the bad weather conditions,among which fog,one of the widespread phenomena,affects the video quality greatly.The physical features of fog make the video blurred and the visible distance shortened,seriously impairing the reliability of the video system.In order to satisfy the requirement of image processing in real-time,the normal distribution curve fitting technology is used to fit the histogram of the sky part and the region growing method is used to segment the region of sky.As for the non-sky part,a method of self-adaptive interpolation to equalize the histogram is adopted to enhance the contrast of the images.Experiment results show that the method works well and will not cause block effect.展开更多
Purpose-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundam...Purpose-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Design/methodology/approach-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Findings-The performance analysis was done for both segmentation and classification.From the analysis,the accuracy of the proposed IAP-CSA-based fuzzy was 41.9%improved than the fuzzy classifier,2.80%improved than PSO,WOA,and CSA,and 2.32%improved than GWO-based fuzzy classifiers.Additionally,the accuracy of the developed IAP-CSA-fuzzy was 9.54%better than NN,35.8%better than SVM,and 41.9%better than the existing fuzzy classifier.Hence,it is concluded that the implemented breast cancer detection model was efficient in determining the normal,benign and malignant images.Originality/value-This paper adopts the latest Improved Awareness Probability-based Crow Search Algorithm(IAP-CSA)-based Region growing and fuzzy classifier for enhancing the breast cancer detection of mammogram images,and this is the first work that utilizes this method.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51909136)the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Geological Hazards on Three Gorges Reservoir Area(China Three Gorges University),Ministry of Education,Grant No.2022KDZ21Fund of National Major Water Conservancy Project Construction(0001212022CC60001)。
文摘The staggered distribution of joints and fissures in space constitutes the weak part of any rock mass.The identification of rock mass structural planes and the extraction of characteristic parameters are the basis of rock-mass integrity evaluation,which is very important for analysis of slope stability.The laser scanning technique can be used to acquire the coordinate information pertaining to each point of the structural plane,but large amount of point cloud data,uneven density distribution,and noise point interference make the identification efficiency and accuracy of different types of structural planes limited by point cloud data analysis technology.A new point cloud identification and segmentation algorithm for rock mass structural surfaces is proposed.Based on the distribution states of the original point cloud in different neighborhoods in space,the point clouds are characterized by multi-dimensional eigenvalues and calculated by the robust randomized Hough transform(RRHT).The normal vector difference and the final eigenvalue are proposed for characteristic distinction,and the identification of rock mass structural surfaces is completed through regional growth,which strengthens the difference expression of point clouds.In addition,nearest Voxel downsampling is also introduced in the RRHT calculation,which further reduces the number of sources of neighborhood noises,thereby improving the accuracy and stability of the calculation.The advantages of the method have been verified by laboratory models.The results showed that the proposed method can better achieve the segmentation and statistics of structural planes with interfaces and sharp boundaries.The method works well in the identification of joints,fissures,and other structural planes on Mangshezhai slope in the Three Gorges Reservoir area,China.It can provide a stable and effective technique for the identification and segmentation of rock mass structural planes,which is beneficial in engineering practice.
基金This work was mainly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61370218)Public Welfare Technology and Industry Project of Zhejiang Provincial Science Technology Department(No.2016C31081,No.LGG18F020013)。
文摘Steganography technology has been widely used in data transmission with secret information.However,the existing steganography has the disadvantages of low hidden information capacity,poor visual effect of cover images,and is hard to guarantee security.To solve these problems,steganography using reversible texture synthesis based on seeded region growing and LSB is proposed.Secret information is embedded in the process of synthesizing texture image from the existing natural texture.Firstly,we refine the visual effect.Abnormality of synthetic texture cannot be fully prevented if no approach of controlling visual effect is applied in the process of generating synthetic texture.We use seeded region growing algorithm to ensure texture’s similar local appearance.Secondly,the size and capacity of image can be decreased by introducing the information segmentation,because the capacity of the secret information is proportional to the size of the synthetic texture.Thirdly,enhanced security is also a contribution in this research,because our method does not need to transmit parameters for secret information extraction.LSB is used to embed these parameters in the synthetic texture.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60772092).
文摘This study attempted to accurately segment the mammographic masses and distinguish malignant from benign tumors.An adaptive region growing algorithm with hybrid assessment function combined with maximum likelihood analysis and maximum gradient analysis was developed in this paper.In order to accommodate different situations of masses,the likelihood and the edge gradients of segmented masses were weighted adaptively by the use of information entropy.106 benign and 110 malignant tumors were included in this study.We found that the proposed algorithm obtained segmentation contour more accurately and delineated the tumor body as well as tumor peripheral regions covering typical mass boundaries and some spiculation patterns.Then the segmented results were evaluated by the classification accuracy.42 features including age,intensity,shape and texture were extracted from each segmented mass and support vector machine(SVM)was used as a classifier.The classification accuracy was evaluated using the area(A_(z))under the receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve.It was found that the maximum likelihood analysis achieved an A_(z)value of 0.835,the maximum gradient analysis got an A_(z)value of 0.932 and the hybrid assessment function performed the best classification result where the value of A_(z)was 0.948.In addition,compared with traditional region growing algorithm,our proposed algorithm is more adaptive and provides a better performance for future works.
文摘Images captured outdoor usually degenerate because of the bad weather conditions,among which fog,one of the widespread phenomena,affects the video quality greatly.The physical features of fog make the video blurred and the visible distance shortened,seriously impairing the reliability of the video system.In order to satisfy the requirement of image processing in real-time,the normal distribution curve fitting technology is used to fit the histogram of the sky part and the region growing method is used to segment the region of sky.As for the non-sky part,a method of self-adaptive interpolation to equalize the histogram is adopted to enhance the contrast of the images.Experiment results show that the method works well and will not cause block effect.
文摘Purpose-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Design/methodology/approach-Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women,which badly have an effect on women’s physical and psychological health and even danger to life.Nowadays,mammography is considered as a fundamental criterion for medical practitioners to recognize breast cancer.Though,due to the intricate formation of mammogram images,it is reasonably hard for practitioners to spot breast cancer features.Findings-The performance analysis was done for both segmentation and classification.From the analysis,the accuracy of the proposed IAP-CSA-based fuzzy was 41.9%improved than the fuzzy classifier,2.80%improved than PSO,WOA,and CSA,and 2.32%improved than GWO-based fuzzy classifiers.Additionally,the accuracy of the developed IAP-CSA-fuzzy was 9.54%better than NN,35.8%better than SVM,and 41.9%better than the existing fuzzy classifier.Hence,it is concluded that the implemented breast cancer detection model was efficient in determining the normal,benign and malignant images.Originality/value-This paper adopts the latest Improved Awareness Probability-based Crow Search Algorithm(IAP-CSA)-based Region growing and fuzzy classifier for enhancing the breast cancer detection of mammogram images,and this is the first work that utilizes this method.
