This paper deals withthe automatic connection of contourlines extracted from a scanned browngeographical map.For the variety oftopographical elements contained on amap,the factors causing the interrup-tion of contour ...This paper deals withthe automatic connection of contourlines extracted from a scanned browngeographical map.For the variety oftopographical elements contained on amap,the factors causing the interrup-tion of contour line are also multiform,which make the connection task verydifficult.On the basis of separatingthose elements always making the con-tours break and regarding them as ref-erent layers,a layering-based methodis presented.The purpose is to takeinto account property information(likeinclination and configuration)of con-tour lines when they come across otherdifferent symbols,such as gully,cliff,dry land and elevation annotation etc.In this paper,the authors propose thatit should be far more effective and di-rect to adopt different algorithmic op-erators to different factors than usingsingle one operator to all.展开更多
Contour extraction of skin tumors accurately is an important task for further feature generation of their borders and sur-faces to early diagnose melanomas. An integrated approach, combining visual attention model and...Contour extraction of skin tumors accurately is an important task for further feature generation of their borders and sur-faces to early diagnose melanomas. An integrated approach, combining visual attention model and GVF-snake, is pro-posed in the paper to provide a general framework for locating tumor boundaries in case of noise and boundaries with large concavity. For any skin image, the visual attention model is implemented to locate the Region of Interests (ROIs) based on saliency maps. Then an algorithm called GVF-snake is utilized to iteratively drive an initial contour, deriving from the extracted ROIs, towards real boundary of skin tumors by minimizing an energy function. It is shown from ex-periments that the proposed approach exceeds in two aspects compared with other contour-deforming methods: 1) ini-tial contours generated from saliency maps are definitely located at neighboring regions of real boundaries of skin tu-mors to speed up converges of contour deformation and achieve higher accuracy;2) the method is not sensitive to nois-es on skins and initial contours extracted.展开更多
Active Contour Model or Snake model is an efficient method by which the users can extract the object contour of Region Of Interest （ROI）. In this paper, we present an improved method combining Hermite splines curve ...Active Contour Model or Snake model is an efficient method by which the users can extract the object contour of Region Of Interest （ROI）. In this paper, we present an improved method combining Hermite splines curve and Snake model that can be used as a tool for fast and intuitive contour extraction. We choose Hermite splines curve as a basic function of Snake contour curve and present its energy function. The optimization of energy minimization is performed hy Dynamic Programming technique. The validation results are presented, comparing the traditional Snake model and the HSCM, showing the similar performance of the latter. We can find that HSCM can overcome the non-convex constraints efficiently. Several medical images applications illustrate that Hermite Splines Contour Model （HSCM） is more efficient than traditional Snake model.展开更多
While executing tasks such as ocean pollution monitoring,maritime rescue,geographic mapping,and automatic navigation utilizing remote sensing images,the coastline feature should be determined.Traditional methods are n...While executing tasks such as ocean pollution monitoring,maritime rescue,geographic mapping,and automatic navigation utilizing remote sensing images,the coastline feature should be determined.Traditional methods are not satisfactory to extract coastline in high-resolution panchromatic remote sensing image.Active contour model,also called snakes,have proven useful for interactive specification of image contours,so it is used as an effective coastlines extraction technique.Firstly,coastlines are detected by water segmentation and boundary tracking,which are considered initial contours to be optimized through active contour model.As better energy functions are developed,the power assist of snakes becomes effective.New internal energy has been done to reduce problems caused by convergence to local minima,and new external energy can greatly enlarge the capture region around features of interest.After normalization processing,energies are iterated using greedy algorithm to accelerate convergence rate.The experimental results encompassed examples in images and demonstrated the capabilities and efficiencies of the improvement.展开更多
A brain tumor is the uncharacteristic progression of tissues in the brain.These are very deadly,and if it is not diagnosed at an early stage,it might shorten the affected patient’s life span.Hence,their classificatio...A brain tumor is the uncharacteristic progression of tissues in the brain.These are very deadly,and if it is not diagnosed at an early stage,it might shorten the affected patient’s life span.Hence,their classification and detection play a critical role in treatment.Traditional Brain tumor detection is done by biopsy which is quite challenging.It is usually not preferred at an early stage of the disease.The detection involvesMagneticResonance Imaging(MRI),which is essential for evaluating the tumor.This paper aims to identify and detect brain tumors based on their location in the brain.In order to achieve this,the paper proposes a model that uses an extended deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)named Contour Extraction based Extended EfficientNet-B0(CE-EEN-B0)which is a feed-forward neural network with the efficient net layers;three convolutional layers and max-pooling layers;and finally,the global average pooling layer.The site of tumors in the brain is one feature that determines its effect on the functioning of an individual.Thus,this CNN architecture classifies brain tumors into four categories:No tumor,Pituitary tumor,Meningioma tumor,andGlioma tumor.This network provides an accuracy of 97.24%,a precision of 96.65%,and an F1 score of 96.86%which is better than already existing pre-trained networks and aims to help health professionals to cross-diagnose an MRI image.This model will undoubtedly reduce the complications in detection and aid radiologists without taking invasive steps.展开更多
Scanning electron microscope(SEM)metrology is critical in semiconductor manufacturing for patterning process quality assessment and monitoring.Besides feature width and feature-feature space dimension measurements fro...Scanning electron microscope(SEM)metrology is critical in semiconductor manufacturing for patterning process quality assessment and monitoring.Besides feature width and feature-feature space dimension measurements from critical dimension SEM(CDSEM)images,visual inspection of SEM image also offers rich information on the quality of patterning.However,visual inspection alone leaves considerable room of ambiguity regarding patterning quality.To narrow the room of ambiguity and to obtain more statistically quantitative information on patterning quality,SEM-image contours are often extracted to serve such purposes.From contours,important information such as critical dimension and resist sidewall angle at any location can be estimated.Those geometrical information can be used for optical proximity correction(OPC)model verification and lithography hotspot detection,etc.Classical contour extraction algorithms based on local information have insufficient capability in dealing with noisy and low contrast images.To achieve reliable contours from noisy and low contrast images,information beyond local should be made use of as much as possible.In this regard,deep convolutional neural network(DCNN)has proven its great capability,as manifested in various computer vision tasks.Taking the full advantages of this maturing technology,we have designed a DCNN network and applied it to the task of extracting contours from noisy and low contrast SEM images.It turns out that the model is capable of separating the resist top and bottom contours reliably.In addition,the model does not generate false contours,it also can suppress the generation of broken contours when ambiguous area for contour extraction is small and non-detrimental.With advanced image alignment algorithm with sub-pixel accuracy,contours from different exposure fields of same process condition can be superposed to estimate process variation band,furthermore,stochastic effect induced edge placement variation statistics can easily be inferred from the extracted contours.展开更多
This paper presents a new model for edge extraction of MR images, based on curve evolution and edgeflow techniques. At first the model for curve evolution is constructed, which automatically detect boundaries, and cha...This paper presents a new model for edge extraction of MR images, based on curve evolution and edgeflow techniques. At first the model for curve evolution is constructed, which automatically detect boundaries, and change of topology in terms of the edgeflow fields, and then the numerical approximation of the model is introduced, which is based on semi-implicit scheme to speed up the proposed approach. Finally, the numerical implementation is present and the experimental results show that the proposed model successfully extracts the edge contours, regardless of the heavy noise.展开更多
[ Objective] Computer image processing technology was used to distinguish the angular leaf spot and spotted disease in the agricultural production. [Method] The computer vision technology was used to carry out chromat...[ Objective] Computer image processing technology was used to distinguish the angular leaf spot and spotted disease in the agricultural production. [Method] The computer vision technology was used to carry out chromatic research on the plant pathological characteristics. The color and texture were taken as the plant disease image characteristic parameter to extract the perimeter, area and the shape of the lesion image, thus carrying out the classification judgment on the disease image. [ Result] C IE1976H IS chorma percentage histogram method was adopted to extract chromaticity characteristic parameters, the process was simple and effective with fast operation speed, eliminating the effect of leaf size and shape. The statistical characteristic parameter of chorma histogram was analyzed to obtain chroma skewness, which could significantly distinguish different symptoms of disease. [ Conclusion] The study suggested that chroma skewness could be adopted as the characteristic parameter to distinguish spotted disease with angular leaf spot.展开更多
Human body feature extraction based on 2D images provides an efficient method for many applications, e.g. non-contact body size measurements, constructing 3D human model and recognizing human actions. In this paper a ...Human body feature extraction based on 2D images provides an efficient method for many applications, e.g. non-contact body size measurements, constructing 3D human model and recognizing human actions. In this paper a systematic approach is proposed to detect feature points of human body automatically from its front and side images. Firstly, an efficient approach for silhouette and contour detection is used to represent the contour curves of a human body shape with Freeman’s 8-connected chain codes. The contour curves are considered as a number of segments connected together. Then, a series of feature points on human body are extracted based on the specified rules by measuring the differences between the directions of the segments. In total, 101 feature points with clearly geometric properties (that rather accurately reflect the bump or turning of the contours) are extracted automatically, including 27 points corresponding to the definitions of the landmarks about garment measurements. Finally, the proposed approach was tested on ten human subjects and the entire 101 feature points with specific geography geometrical characteristics were correctly extracted, indicating an effective and robust performance.展开更多
A novel method is proposed to automatically extract foreground objects from Martian surface images.The characteristics of Mars images are distinct,e.g.uneven illumination,low contrast between foreground and background...A novel method is proposed to automatically extract foreground objects from Martian surface images.The characteristics of Mars images are distinct,e.g.uneven illumination,low contrast between foreground and background,much noise in the background,and foreground objects with irregular shapes.In the context of these characteristics,an image is divided into foreground objects and background information.Homomorphism filtering is first applied to rectify brightness.Then,wavelet transformation enhances contrast and denoises the image.Third,edge detection and active contour are combined to extract contours regardless of the shape of the image.Experimental results show that the method can extract foreground objects from Mars images automatically and accurately,and has many potential applications.展开更多
Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-sc...Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
In order to improve the diagnosis and analysis ability of 3D spiral CT and to reconstruct the contour of 3D spiral CT damage image,a contour reconstruction method based on sharpening template enhancement for 3D spiral...In order to improve the diagnosis and analysis ability of 3D spiral CT and to reconstruct the contour of 3D spiral CT damage image,a contour reconstruction method based on sharpening template enhancement for 3D spiral CT damage image is proposed.This method uses the active contour LasSO model to extract the contour feature of the 3D spiral CT damage image and enhances the information by sharpening the template en.hancement technique and makes the noise separation of the 3D spiral CT damage image.The spiral CT image was procesed with ENT,and the statistical shape model of 3D spiral CT damage image was established.The.gradient algorithm is used to decompose the feature to realize the analysis and reconstruction of the contour feature of the 3D spiral CT damage image,so as to improve the adaptive feature matching ability and the ability to locate the abnormal feature points.The simulation results show that in the 3D spiral CT damage image contour reconstruction,the proposed method performs well in the feature matching of the output pixels,shortens the contour reconstruction time by 20/ms,and provides a strong ability to express the image information.The normalized reconstruction error of CES is 30%,which improves the recognition ability of 3D spiral CT damage image,and increases the signal-to noise ratio of peak output by 40 dB over other methods.展开更多
This research implements a novel segmentation of mammographic mass.Three methods are proposed,namely,segmentation of mass based on iterative active contour,automatic region growing,and fully automatic mask selectionba...This research implements a novel segmentation of mammographic mass.Three methods are proposed,namely,segmentation of mass based on iterative active contour,automatic region growing,and fully automatic mask selectionbased active contour techniques.In the first method,iterative threshold is performed for manual cropped preprocessed image,and active contour is applied thereafter.To overcome manual cropping in the second method,an automatic seed selection followed by region growing is performed.Given that the result is only a few images owing to over segmentation,the third method uses a fully automatic active contour.Results of the segmentation techniques are compared with the manual markup by experts,specifically by taking the difference in their mean values.Accordingly,the difference in the mean value of the third method is 1.0853,which indicates the closeness of the segmentation.Moreover,the proposed method is compared with the existing fuzzy C means and level set methods.The automatic mass segmentation based on active contour technique results in segmentation with high accuracy.By using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system,classification is done and results in a sensitivity of 94.73%,accuracy of 93.93%,and Mathew’s correlation coefficient(MCC)of 0.876.展开更多
基金the Scientific Research Foundation of Wuhan University(No.40071071).
文摘This paper deals withthe automatic connection of contourlines extracted from a scanned browngeographical map.For the variety oftopographical elements contained on amap,the factors causing the interrup-tion of contour line are also multiform,which make the connection task verydifficult.On the basis of separatingthose elements always making the con-tours break and regarding them as ref-erent layers,a layering-based methodis presented.The purpose is to takeinto account property information(likeinclination and configuration)of con-tour lines when they come across otherdifferent symbols,such as gully,cliff,dry land and elevation annotation etc.In this paper,the authors propose thatit should be far more effective and di-rect to adopt different algorithmic op-erators to different factors than usingsingle one operator to all.
文摘Contour extraction of skin tumors accurately is an important task for further feature generation of their borders and sur-faces to early diagnose melanomas. An integrated approach, combining visual attention model and GVF-snake, is pro-posed in the paper to provide a general framework for locating tumor boundaries in case of noise and boundaries with large concavity. For any skin image, the visual attention model is implemented to locate the Region of Interests (ROIs) based on saliency maps. Then an algorithm called GVF-snake is utilized to iteratively drive an initial contour, deriving from the extracted ROIs, towards real boundary of skin tumors by minimizing an energy function. It is shown from ex-periments that the proposed approach exceeds in two aspects compared with other contour-deforming methods: 1) ini-tial contours generated from saliency maps are definitely located at neighboring regions of real boundaries of skin tu-mors to speed up converges of contour deformation and achieve higher accuracy;2) the method is not sensitive to nois-es on skins and initial contours extracted.
文摘Active Contour Model or Snake model is an efficient method by which the users can extract the object contour of Region Of Interest （ROI）. In this paper, we present an improved method combining Hermite splines curve and Snake model that can be used as a tool for fast and intuitive contour extraction. We choose Hermite splines curve as a basic function of Snake contour curve and present its energy function. The optimization of energy minimization is performed hy Dynamic Programming technique. The validation results are presented, comparing the traditional Snake model and the HSCM, showing the similar performance of the latter. We can find that HSCM can overcome the non-convex constraints efficiently. Several medical images applications illustrate that Hermite Splines Contour Model （HSCM） is more efficient than traditional Snake model.
基金Sponsoreds by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60575016)
文摘While executing tasks such as ocean pollution monitoring,maritime rescue,geographic mapping,and automatic navigation utilizing remote sensing images,the coastline feature should be determined.Traditional methods are not satisfactory to extract coastline in high-resolution panchromatic remote sensing image.Active contour model,also called snakes,have proven useful for interactive specification of image contours,so it is used as an effective coastlines extraction technique.Firstly,coastlines are detected by water segmentation and boundary tracking,which are considered initial contours to be optimized through active contour model.As better energy functions are developed,the power assist of snakes becomes effective.New internal energy has been done to reduce problems caused by convergence to local minima,and new external energy can greatly enlarge the capture region around features of interest.After normalization processing,energies are iterated using greedy algorithm to accelerate convergence rate.The experimental results encompassed examples in images and demonstrated the capabilities and efficiencies of the improvement.
文摘A brain tumor is the uncharacteristic progression of tissues in the brain.These are very deadly,and if it is not diagnosed at an early stage,it might shorten the affected patient’s life span.Hence,their classification and detection play a critical role in treatment.Traditional Brain tumor detection is done by biopsy which is quite challenging.It is usually not preferred at an early stage of the disease.The detection involvesMagneticResonance Imaging(MRI),which is essential for evaluating the tumor.This paper aims to identify and detect brain tumors based on their location in the brain.In order to achieve this,the paper proposes a model that uses an extended deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)named Contour Extraction based Extended EfficientNet-B0(CE-EEN-B0)which is a feed-forward neural network with the efficient net layers;three convolutional layers and max-pooling layers;and finally,the global average pooling layer.The site of tumors in the brain is one feature that determines its effect on the functioning of an individual.Thus,this CNN architecture classifies brain tumors into four categories:No tumor,Pituitary tumor,Meningioma tumor,andGlioma tumor.This network provides an accuracy of 97.24%,a precision of 96.65%,and an F1 score of 96.86%which is better than already existing pre-trained networks and aims to help health professionals to cross-diagnose an MRI image.This model will undoubtedly reduce the complications in detection and aid radiologists without taking invasive steps.
文摘Scanning electron microscope(SEM)metrology is critical in semiconductor manufacturing for patterning process quality assessment and monitoring.Besides feature width and feature-feature space dimension measurements from critical dimension SEM(CDSEM)images,visual inspection of SEM image also offers rich information on the quality of patterning.However,visual inspection alone leaves considerable room of ambiguity regarding patterning quality.To narrow the room of ambiguity and to obtain more statistically quantitative information on patterning quality,SEM-image contours are often extracted to serve such purposes.From contours,important information such as critical dimension and resist sidewall angle at any location can be estimated.Those geometrical information can be used for optical proximity correction(OPC)model verification and lithography hotspot detection,etc.Classical contour extraction algorithms based on local information have insufficient capability in dealing with noisy and low contrast images.To achieve reliable contours from noisy and low contrast images,information beyond local should be made use of as much as possible.In this regard,deep convolutional neural network(DCNN)has proven its great capability,as manifested in various computer vision tasks.Taking the full advantages of this maturing technology,we have designed a DCNN network and applied it to the task of extracting contours from noisy and low contrast SEM images.It turns out that the model is capable of separating the resist top and bottom contours reliably.In addition,the model does not generate false contours,it also can suppress the generation of broken contours when ambiguous area for contour extraction is small and non-detrimental.With advanced image alignment algorithm with sub-pixel accuracy,contours from different exposure fields of same process condition can be superposed to estimate process variation band,furthermore,stochastic effect induced edge placement variation statistics can easily be inferred from the extracted contours.
文摘This paper presents a new model for edge extraction of MR images, based on curve evolution and edgeflow techniques. At first the model for curve evolution is constructed, which automatically detect boundaries, and change of topology in terms of the edgeflow fields, and then the numerical approximation of the model is introduced, which is based on semi-implicit scheme to speed up the proposed approach. Finally, the numerical implementation is present and the experimental results show that the proposed model successfully extracts the edge contours, regardless of the heavy noise.
基金Supported by Natural Science Foundation in Education Department of Henan Province(2008B210001)~~
文摘[ Objective] Computer image processing technology was used to distinguish the angular leaf spot and spotted disease in the agricultural production. [Method] The computer vision technology was used to carry out chromatic research on the plant pathological characteristics. The color and texture were taken as the plant disease image characteristic parameter to extract the perimeter, area and the shape of the lesion image, thus carrying out the classification judgment on the disease image. [ Result] C IE1976H IS chorma percentage histogram method was adopted to extract chromaticity characteristic parameters, the process was simple and effective with fast operation speed, eliminating the effect of leaf size and shape. The statistical characteristic parameter of chorma histogram was analyzed to obtain chroma skewness, which could significantly distinguish different symptoms of disease. [ Conclusion] The study suggested that chroma skewness could be adopted as the characteristic parameter to distinguish spotted disease with angular leaf spot.
文摘Human body feature extraction based on 2D images provides an efficient method for many applications, e.g. non-contact body size measurements, constructing 3D human model and recognizing human actions. In this paper a systematic approach is proposed to detect feature points of human body automatically from its front and side images. Firstly, an efficient approach for silhouette and contour detection is used to represent the contour curves of a human body shape with Freeman’s 8-connected chain codes. The contour curves are considered as a number of segments connected together. Then, a series of feature points on human body are extracted based on the specified rules by measuring the differences between the directions of the segments. In total, 101 feature points with clearly geometric properties (that rather accurately reflect the bump or turning of the contours) are extracted automatically, including 27 points corresponding to the definitions of the landmarks about garment measurements. Finally, the proposed approach was tested on ten human subjects and the entire 101 feature points with specific geography geometrical characteristics were correctly extracted, indicating an effective and robust performance.
基金Supported by the National 973 Program of China(No.2007CB310804)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61173061).
文摘A novel method is proposed to automatically extract foreground objects from Martian surface images.The characteristics of Mars images are distinct,e.g.uneven illumination,low contrast between foreground and background,much noise in the background,and foreground objects with irregular shapes.In the context of these characteristics,an image is divided into foreground objects and background information.Homomorphism filtering is first applied to rectify brightness.Then,wavelet transformation enhances contrast and denoises the image.Third,edge detection and active contour are combined to extract contours regardless of the shape of the image.Experimental results show that the method can extract foreground objects from Mars images automatically and accurately,and has many potential applications.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61903078)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.2232021A-10)+1 种基金Shanghai Sailing Program,China(No.22YF1401300)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai,China(No.20ZR1400400)。
文摘Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.
文摘In order to improve the diagnosis and analysis ability of 3D spiral CT and to reconstruct the contour of 3D spiral CT damage image,a contour reconstruction method based on sharpening template enhancement for 3D spiral CT damage image is proposed.This method uses the active contour LasSO model to extract the contour feature of the 3D spiral CT damage image and enhances the information by sharpening the template en.hancement technique and makes the noise separation of the 3D spiral CT damage image.The spiral CT image was procesed with ENT,and the statistical shape model of 3D spiral CT damage image was established.The.gradient algorithm is used to decompose the feature to realize the analysis and reconstruction of the contour feature of the 3D spiral CT damage image,so as to improve the adaptive feature matching ability and the ability to locate the abnormal feature points.The simulation results show that in the 3D spiral CT damage image contour reconstruction,the proposed method performs well in the feature matching of the output pixels,shortens the contour reconstruction time by 20/ms,and provides a strong ability to express the image information.The normalized reconstruction error of CES is 30%,which improves the recognition ability of 3D spiral CT damage image,and increases the signal-to noise ratio of peak output by 40 dB over other methods.
文摘This research implements a novel segmentation of mammographic mass.Three methods are proposed,namely,segmentation of mass based on iterative active contour,automatic region growing,and fully automatic mask selectionbased active contour techniques.In the first method,iterative threshold is performed for manual cropped preprocessed image,and active contour is applied thereafter.To overcome manual cropping in the second method,an automatic seed selection followed by region growing is performed.Given that the result is only a few images owing to over segmentation,the third method uses a fully automatic active contour.Results of the segmentation techniques are compared with the manual markup by experts,specifically by taking the difference in their mean values.Accordingly,the difference in the mean value of the third method is 1.0853,which indicates the closeness of the segmentation.Moreover,the proposed method is compared with the existing fuzzy C means and level set methods.The automatic mass segmentation based on active contour technique results in segmentation with high accuracy.By using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system,classification is done and results in a sensitivity of 94.73%,accuracy of 93.93%,and Mathew’s correlation coefficient(MCC)of 0.876.
