Nonlinear transforms have significantly advanced learned image compression(LIC),particularly using residual blocks.This transform enhances the nonlinear expression ability and obtain compact feature representation by ...Nonlinear transforms have significantly advanced learned image compression(LIC),particularly using residual blocks.This transform enhances the nonlinear expression ability and obtain compact feature representation by enlarging the receptive field,which indicates how the convolution process extracts features in a high dimensional feature space.However,its functionality is restricted to the spatial dimension and network depth,limiting further improvements in network performance due to insufficient information interaction and representation.Crucially,the potential of high dimensional feature space in the channel dimension and the exploration of network width/resolution remain largely untapped.In this paper,we consider nonlinear transforms from the perspective of feature space,defining high-dimensional feature spaces in different dimensions and investigating the specific effects.Firstly,we introduce the dimension increasing and decreasing transforms in both channel and spatial dimensions to obtain high dimensional feature space and achieve better feature extraction.Secondly,we design a channel-spatial fusion residual transform(CSR),which incorporates multi-dimensional transforms for a more effective representation.Furthermore,we simplify the proposed fusion transform to obtain a slim architecture(CSR-sm),balancing network complexity and compression performance.Finally,we build the overall network with stacked CSR transforms to achieve better compression and reconstruction.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve superior ratedistortion performance compared to the existing LIC methods and traditional codecs.Specifically,our proposed method achieves 9.38%BD-rate reduction over VVC on Kodak dataset.展开更多
This paper expounds upon a novel target detection methodology distinguished by its elevated discriminatory efficacy,specifically tailored for environments characterized by markedly low luminance levels.Conventional me...This paper expounds upon a novel target detection methodology distinguished by its elevated discriminatory efficacy,specifically tailored for environments characterized by markedly low luminance levels.Conventional methodologies struggle with the challenges posed by luminosity fluctuations,especially in settings characterized by diminished radiance,further exacerbated by the utilization of suboptimal imaging instrumentation.The envisioned approach mandates a departure from the conventional YOLOX model,which exhibits inadequacies in mitigating these challenges.To enhance the efficacy of this approach in low-light conditions,the dehazing algorithm undergoes refinement,effecting a discerning regulation of the transmission rate at the pixel level,reducing it to values below 0.5,thereby resulting in an augmentation of image contrast.Subsequently,the coiflet wavelet transform is employed to discern and isolate high-discriminatory attributes by dismantling low-frequency image attributes and extracting high-frequency attributes across divergent axes.The utilization of CycleGAN serves to elevate the features of low-light imagery across an array of stylistic variances.Advanced computational methodologies are then employed to amalgamate and conflate intricate attributes originating from images characterized by distinct stylistic orientations,thereby augmenting the model’s erudition potential.Empirical validation conducted on the PASCAL VOC and MS COCO 2017 datasets substantiates pronounced advancements.The refined low-light enhancement algorithm yields a discernible 5.9%augmentation in the target detection evaluation index when compared to the original imagery.Mean Average Precision(mAP)undergoes enhancements of 9.45%and 0.052%in low-light visual renditions relative to conventional YOLOX outcomes.The envisaged approach presents a myriad of advantages over prevailing benchmark methodologies in the realm of target detection within environments marked by an acute scarcity of luminosity.展开更多
Diabetes is increasing commonly in people’s daily life and represents an extraordinary threat to human well-being.Machine Learning(ML)in the healthcare industry has recently made headlines.Several ML models are devel...Diabetes is increasing commonly in people’s daily life and represents an extraordinary threat to human well-being.Machine Learning(ML)in the healthcare industry has recently made headlines.Several ML models are developed around different datasets for diabetic prediction.It is essential for ML models to predict diabetes accurately.Highly informative features of the dataset are vital to determine the capability factors of the model in the prediction of diabetes.Feature engineering(FE)is the way of taking forward in yielding highly informative features.Pima Indian Diabetes Dataset(PIDD)is used in this work,and the impact of informative features in ML models is experimented with and analyzed for the prediction of diabetes.Missing values(MV)and the effect of the imputation process in the data distribution of each feature are analyzed.Permutation importance and partial dependence are carried out extensively and the results revealed that Glucose(GLUC),Body Mass Index(BMI),and Insulin(INS)are highly informative features.Derived features are obtained for BMI and INS to add more information with its raw form.The ensemble classifier with an ensemble of AdaBoost(AB)and XGBoost(XB)is considered for the impact analysis of the proposed FE approach.The ensemble model performs well for the inclusion of derived features provided the high Diagnostics Odds Ratio(DOR)of 117.694.This shows a high margin of 8.2%when compared with the ensemble model with no derived features(DOR=96.306)included in the experiment.The inclusion of derived features with the FE approach of the current state-of-the-art made the ensemble model performs well with Sensitivity(0.793),Specificity(0.945),DOR(79.517),and False Omission Rate(0.090)which further improves the state-of-the-art results.展开更多
Analysis of cellular behavior is significant for studying cell cycle and detecting anti-cancer drugs. It is a very difficult task for image processing to isolate individual cells in confocal microscopic images of non-...Analysis of cellular behavior is significant for studying cell cycle and detecting anti-cancer drugs. It is a very difficult task for image processing to isolate individual cells in confocal microscopic images of non-stained live cell cultures. Because these images do not have adequate textural variations. Manual cell segmentation requires massive labor and is a time consuming process. This paper describes an automated cell segmentation method for localizing the cells of Chinese hamster ovary cell culture. Several kinds of high-dimensional feature descriptors, K-means clustering method and Chan-Vese model-based level set are used to extract the cellular regions. The region extracted are used to classify phases in cell cycle. The segmentation results were experimentally assessed. As a result, the proposed method proved to be significant for cell isolation. In the evaluation experiments, we constructed a database of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell’s microscopic images which includes various photographing environments under the guidance of a biologist.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62031013)Guangdong Province Key Construction Discipline Scientific Research Capacity Improvement Project(Grant No.2022ZDJS117).
文摘Nonlinear transforms have significantly advanced learned image compression(LIC),particularly using residual blocks.This transform enhances the nonlinear expression ability and obtain compact feature representation by enlarging the receptive field,which indicates how the convolution process extracts features in a high dimensional feature space.However,its functionality is restricted to the spatial dimension and network depth,limiting further improvements in network performance due to insufficient information interaction and representation.Crucially,the potential of high dimensional feature space in the channel dimension and the exploration of network width/resolution remain largely untapped.In this paper,we consider nonlinear transforms from the perspective of feature space,defining high-dimensional feature spaces in different dimensions and investigating the specific effects.Firstly,we introduce the dimension increasing and decreasing transforms in both channel and spatial dimensions to obtain high dimensional feature space and achieve better feature extraction.Secondly,we design a channel-spatial fusion residual transform(CSR),which incorporates multi-dimensional transforms for a more effective representation.Furthermore,we simplify the proposed fusion transform to obtain a slim architecture(CSR-sm),balancing network complexity and compression performance.Finally,we build the overall network with stacked CSR transforms to achieve better compression and reconstruction.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve superior ratedistortion performance compared to the existing LIC methods and traditional codecs.Specifically,our proposed method achieves 9.38%BD-rate reduction over VVC on Kodak dataset.
基金supported by National Sciences Foundation of China Grants(No.61902158).
文摘This paper expounds upon a novel target detection methodology distinguished by its elevated discriminatory efficacy,specifically tailored for environments characterized by markedly low luminance levels.Conventional methodologies struggle with the challenges posed by luminosity fluctuations,especially in settings characterized by diminished radiance,further exacerbated by the utilization of suboptimal imaging instrumentation.The envisioned approach mandates a departure from the conventional YOLOX model,which exhibits inadequacies in mitigating these challenges.To enhance the efficacy of this approach in low-light conditions,the dehazing algorithm undergoes refinement,effecting a discerning regulation of the transmission rate at the pixel level,reducing it to values below 0.5,thereby resulting in an augmentation of image contrast.Subsequently,the coiflet wavelet transform is employed to discern and isolate high-discriminatory attributes by dismantling low-frequency image attributes and extracting high-frequency attributes across divergent axes.The utilization of CycleGAN serves to elevate the features of low-light imagery across an array of stylistic variances.Advanced computational methodologies are then employed to amalgamate and conflate intricate attributes originating from images characterized by distinct stylistic orientations,thereby augmenting the model’s erudition potential.Empirical validation conducted on the PASCAL VOC and MS COCO 2017 datasets substantiates pronounced advancements.The refined low-light enhancement algorithm yields a discernible 5.9%augmentation in the target detection evaluation index when compared to the original imagery.Mean Average Precision(mAP)undergoes enhancements of 9.45%and 0.052%in low-light visual renditions relative to conventional YOLOX outcomes.The envisaged approach presents a myriad of advantages over prevailing benchmark methodologies in the realm of target detection within environments marked by an acute scarcity of luminosity.
文摘Diabetes is increasing commonly in people’s daily life and represents an extraordinary threat to human well-being.Machine Learning(ML)in the healthcare industry has recently made headlines.Several ML models are developed around different datasets for diabetic prediction.It is essential for ML models to predict diabetes accurately.Highly informative features of the dataset are vital to determine the capability factors of the model in the prediction of diabetes.Feature engineering(FE)is the way of taking forward in yielding highly informative features.Pima Indian Diabetes Dataset(PIDD)is used in this work,and the impact of informative features in ML models is experimented with and analyzed for the prediction of diabetes.Missing values(MV)and the effect of the imputation process in the data distribution of each feature are analyzed.Permutation importance and partial dependence are carried out extensively and the results revealed that Glucose(GLUC),Body Mass Index(BMI),and Insulin(INS)are highly informative features.Derived features are obtained for BMI and INS to add more information with its raw form.The ensemble classifier with an ensemble of AdaBoost(AB)and XGBoost(XB)is considered for the impact analysis of the proposed FE approach.The ensemble model performs well for the inclusion of derived features provided the high Diagnostics Odds Ratio(DOR)of 117.694.This shows a high margin of 8.2%when compared with the ensemble model with no derived features(DOR=96.306)included in the experiment.The inclusion of derived features with the FE approach of the current state-of-the-art made the ensemble model performs well with Sensitivity(0.793),Specificity(0.945),DOR(79.517),and False Omission Rate(0.090)which further improves the state-of-the-art results.
文摘Analysis of cellular behavior is significant for studying cell cycle and detecting anti-cancer drugs. It is a very difficult task for image processing to isolate individual cells in confocal microscopic images of non-stained live cell cultures. Because these images do not have adequate textural variations. Manual cell segmentation requires massive labor and is a time consuming process. This paper describes an automated cell segmentation method for localizing the cells of Chinese hamster ovary cell culture. Several kinds of high-dimensional feature descriptors, K-means clustering method and Chan-Vese model-based level set are used to extract the cellular regions. The region extracted are used to classify phases in cell cycle. The segmentation results were experimentally assessed. As a result, the proposed method proved to be significant for cell isolation. In the evaluation experiments, we constructed a database of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell’s microscopic images which includes various photographing environments under the guidance of a biologist.
