2022 February - 35 articles
Space-borne infrared remote sensing specifically for the detection and characterization of fires has a long history in the DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems. In the year 2001, the first DLR experimental satellite, Bi-spectral Infrared Detection...
Due to the enormous amounts of images produced today, compression is crucial for consumer and professional (for instance, medical) picture archiving and communication systems [...]
Percutaneous femoral arterial access is daily practice in a variety of medical specialties and enables physicians worldwide to perform endovascular interventions. The reported incidence of percutaneous femoral arterial access complications is 3&ndash...
Background: Response to induction chemotherapy (IC) has been predicted in patients with sinonasal cancer using early delta radiomics obtained from T1- and T2-weighted images and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, comparing results with early...
Bone and soft-tissue primary malignant tumors or sarcomas are a large, diverse group of mesenchymal-derived malignancies. They represent a model for intra- and intertumoral heterogeneities, making them particularly suitable for radiomics analyses. Ra...
The present paper proposes an implementation of a hybrid hardware–software system for the visual servoing of prosthetic arms. We focus on the most critical vision analysis part of the system. The prosthetic system comprises a glass-worn eye tra...
Computer vision plays an important role in the accurate foreground detection of medical images. Diagnosing diseases in their early stages has effective life-saving potential, and this is every physician’s goal. There is a positive relationship...
Developing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based applications is typically a slow and multi-skilled task. Research in tools to support application development has gradually reached a higher level. This paper describes an approach which aims to f...
Advances in computing and AI technology have promoted the development of connected health systems, indirectly influencing approaches to cataract treatment. In addition, thanks to the development of methods for cataract detection and grading using dif...
This paper presents a photometric stereo (PS) method based on the dichromatic reflectance model (DRM) using colour images. The proposed method estimates surface orientations for surfaces with non-Lambertian reflectance using diffuse-specular separati...
The Bologna Archaeological Museum, in cooperation with prestigious Italian universities, institutions, and independent scholars, recently began a vast investigation programme on a group of Egyptian coffins of Theban provenance dating to the first mil...
Transfer learning from natural images is used in deep neural networks (DNNs) for medical image classification to achieve a computer-aided clinical diagnosis. Although the adversarial vulnerability of DNNs hinders practical applications owing to the h...
Holotomography is an extension of computed tomography where samples with low X-ray absorption can be investigated with higher contrast. In order to achieve this, the imaging system must yield an optical resolution of a few micrometers or less, which...
Shape-from-Shading represents the problem of computing the three-dimensional shape of a surface given a single gray-value image of it as input. In a recent paper, we showed that the introduction of an attenuation factor in the brightness equations re...
Ischemic chronic cardiomyopathy (ICC) is still one of the most common cardiac diseases leading to the development of myocardial ischemia, infarction, or heart failure. The application of several imaging modalities can provide information regarding co...
In this paper, we proposed a method for matching the color and glossiness of an object between different displays by using tone mapping. Since displays have their own characteristics, such as maximum luminance and gamma characteristics, the color and...
By aligning virtual augmentations with real objects, optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD)-based augmented reality (AR) can enhance user-task performance. Our goal was to compare the perceptual accuracy of several visualization paradigms...
Pore scale analysis of flow through porous media is of interest because it is essential for understanding internal erosion and piping, among other applications. Past studies have mainly focused on exploring macroscopic flow to infer microscopic pheno...
During an Over-the-Board (OTB) chess event, all players are required to record their moves strictly by hand, and later the event organizers are required to digitize these sheets for official records. This is a very time-consuming process, and in this...
Model understanding is critical in many domains, particularly those involved in high-stakes decisions, e.g., medicine, criminal justice, and autonomous driving. Explainable AI (XAI) methods are essential for working with black-box models such as conv...
The discrete shearlet transformation accurately represents the discontinuities and edges occurring in magnetic resonance imaging, providing an excellent option of a sparsifying transform. In the present paper, we examine the use of discrete shearlets...
This paper shows that the X-ray analysis method known from the medical field, using a priori information, can provide a lot more information than the common analysis for high-speed experiments. Via spatial registration of known 3D shapes with the hel...
This paper proposes a reversible image processing method for color images that can independently improve saturation and enhance brightness contrast. Image processing techniques have been popularly used to obtain desired images. The existing technique...
This paper presents two techniques in the matching and re-identification of multiple aerial target detections from multiple electro-optical devices: 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional kinematics-based matching. The main advantage of these methods over t...
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Human coronaviruses (HCoV) are causative agents of mild to severe intestinal and respiratory infections in humans. In the last 15 years, we have witnessed the emergence of three zoonotic, highly pathogenic HCoVs. Thus, early and accurate detection of...
The fetus head circumference (HC) is a key biometric to monitor fetus growth during pregnancy, which is estimated from ultrasound (US) images. The standard approach to automatically measure the HC is to use a segmentation network to segment the skull...
The proper inspection of a cracks pattern over time is a critical diagnosis step to provide a thorough knowledge of the health state of a structure. When monitoring cracks propagating on a planar surface, adopting a single-image-based approach is a m...
The TRIMAGE project aims to develop a brain-dedicated PET/MR/EEG (Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance/Electroencephalogram) system that is able to perform simultaneous PET, MR and EEG acquisitions. The PET component consists of a full rin...
This paper presents the evaluation of 36 convolutional neural network (CNN) models, which were trained on the same dataset (ImageNet). The aim of this research was to evaluate the performance of pre-trained models on the binary classification of imag...
Artificial intelligence techniques are now being applied in different medical solutions ranging from disease screening to activity recognition and computer-aided diagnosis. The combination of computer science methods and medical knowledge facilitates...
Detecting objects with a small representation in images is a challenging task, especially when the style of the images is very different from recent photos, which is the case for cultural heritage datasets. This problem is commonly known as few-shot...
A method for generating fluoroscopic (time-varying) volumetric images using patient-specific motion models derived from four-dimensional cone-beam CT (4D-CBCT) images was developed. 4D-CBCT images acquired immediately prior to treatment have the pote...
Image segmentation is one of the main problems in image processing. In order to improve the accuracy of segmentation, one often creates a number of masks (annotations) for a same image and then uses some voting methods on these masks to obtain a more...
High-speed optical reconstruction of 3D-scenes can be achieved using digital holography with binary digital micromirror devices (DMD) or a ferroelectric spatial light modulator (fSLM). There are many algorithms for binarizing digital holograms. The m...
