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Video-Based 3D Reconstruction: A Review of Photogrammetry and Visual SLAM Approaches

  • Ali Javadi Moghadam,
  • Abbas Kiani,
  • Reza Naeimaei,
  • Shirin Malihi and
  • Ioannis Brilakis

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction using images is one of the most significant topics in computer vision and photogrammetry, with wide-ranging applications in robotics, augmented reality, and mapping. This study investigates methods of 3D reconstr...

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Automated Malaria Ring Form Classification in Blood Smear Images Using Ensemble Parallel Neural Networks

  • Pongphan Pongpanitanont,
  • Naparat Suttidate,
  • Manit Nuinoon,
  • Natthida Khampeeramao,
  • Sakhone Laymanivong and
  • Penchom Janwan

Manual microscopy for malaria diagnosis is labor-intensive and prone to inter-observer variability. This study presents an automated binary classification approach for detecting malaria ring-form infections in thin blood smear single-cell images usin...

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This study investigates the performance of image-reconstruction methods derived from coupled dynamical systems for solving linear inverse problems, focusing on how appropriate parameter selection enhances noise-suppression capability in tomographic i...

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In-depth research on marine biodiversity is essential for understanding and protecting marine ecosystems, where semantic segmentation of marine species plays a crucial role. However, segmenting microscopic zooplankton images remains challenging due t...

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Selective Trace Mix: A New Processing Tool to Enhance Seismic Imaging of Complex Subsurface Structures

  • Mohamed Rashed,
  • Nassir Al-Amri,
  • Riyadh Halawani,
  • Ali Atef and
  • Hussein Harbi

In seismic imaging, the trace mixing process involves merging neighboring traces in seismic data to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio and improve the continuity and spatial coherence of seismic data. In regions with complex subsurface structures, cur...

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With the considerable number of low-dose CT examinations performed in lung cancer screening, variations in participant positioning, scan direction, or localiser angle are likely to occur in practice. These variations are known to affect automatic tub...

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The paper presents a method for generating a pseudo-panchromatic (PPAN) orthophotomosaic that is spectrally compatible with the multispectral (MS) orthophotomosaic, and it targets the fusion of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) RGB–MS orthophotomo...

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Deep Learning Based Computer-Aided Detection of Prostate Cancer Metastases in Bone Scintigraphy: An Experimental Analysis

  • Eslam Jabali,
  • Omar Almomani,
  • Louai Qatawneh,
  • Sinan Badwan,
  • Yazan Almomani,
  • Mohammad Al-soreeky,
  • Alia Ibrahim and
  • Natalie Khalil

Bone scintigraphy is a widely available and cost-effective modality for detecting skeletal metastases in prostate cancer, yet visual interpretation can be challenging due to heterogeneous uptake patterns, benign mimickers, and a high reporting worklo...

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Decoding the Heart Through Computed Tomography: Early Cardiomyopathy Detection Using Ensemble-Based Segmentation and Radiomics

  • Theodoros Tsampras,
  • Alexios Antonopoulos,
  • Theodora Karamanidou,
  • Georgios Kalykakis,
  • Konstantinos Tsioufis and
  • Charalambos Vlachopoulos

Diagnosis of cardiomyopathies often depends on overt phenotypic manifestations, delaying patient management. This underscores the need for population-level opportunistic screening tools using clinically indicated CT scans to detect subclinical myocar...

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26 Pages

ClearScope: A Fully Integrated Light-Sheet Theta Microscope for Sub-Micron-Resolution Imaging Without Lateral Size Constraints

  • Matthew G. Fay,
  • Peter J. Lang,
  • David S. Denu,
  • Nathan J. O’Connor,
  • Benjamin Haydock,
  • Jeffrey Blaisdell,
  • Nicolas Roussel,
  • Alissa Wilson,
  • Sage R. Aronson and
  • Jacob R. Glaser
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Three-dimensional (3D) ex vivo imaging of cleared tissue from intact brains from animal models, human brain surgical specimens, and large postmortem human and non-human primate brain specimens is essential for understanding physiological neural conne...

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Talking Head Generation (THG) is a rapidly advancing field at the intersection of computer vision, deep learning, and speech synthesis, enabling the creation of animated human-like heads that can produce speech and express emotions with high visual r...

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The Evolving Role of Radiation Therapy Technologists in Head and Neck Cancer: A Narrative Review and Operational Framework

  • Andrea Lastrucci,
  • Ilaria Morelli,
  • Nicola Iosca,
  • Isacco Desideri,
  • Eva Serventi,
  • Yannick Wandael,
  • Carlotta Becherini,
  • Viola Salvestrini,
  • Vittorio Miele and
  • Daniele Giansanti
  • + 3 authors

Head and neck cancer (HNC) management requires highly coordinated multidisciplinary care. Radiation Therapy Technologists (RTTs) have increasingly expanded their role beyond technical execution, contributing to patient positioning, treatment delivery...

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Assessing RGB Color Reliability via Simultaneous Comparison with Hyperspectral Data on Pantone® Fabrics

  • Cindy Lorena Gómez-Heredia,
  • Jose David Ardila-Useda,
  • Andrés Felipe Cerón-Molina,
  • Jhonny Osorio-Gallego and
  • Jorge Andrés Ramírez-Rincón

Accurate color property measurements are critical for advancing artificial vision in real-time industrial applications. RGB imaging remains highly applicable and widely used due to its practicality, accessibility, and high spatial resolution. However...

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19 Pages

To meet the strict non-contact measurement requirements for the assembly of aircraft engine pipelines and to overcome the limitations of the traditional three-dimensional laser scanning workflow, this study proposes an automated pipeline point cloud...

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24 Pages

Evaluation of High Dynamic Range Imaging Methods for Luminance Measurements

  • Lou Gevaux,
  • Alejandro Ferrero,
  • Alice Dupiau,
  • Ángela Sáez,
  • Markos Antonopoulos and
  • Constantinos Bouroussis

Imaging luminance measurement is increasingly used in lighting applications, but the limited dynamic range of camera sensors requires using high dynamic range (HDR) imaging methods for evaluating scenes with large luminance contrasts. This work aims...

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Perceived photorealism in architectural 3D rendering is not determined solely by physical accuracy or rendering complexity but also by a limited set of visual cues that observers rely on when judging realism. This literature review synthesizes findin...

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187 Views
28 Pages

Gastrointestinal cancers account for roughly a quarter of global cancer incidence, and early detection through endoscopy has proven effective in reducing mortality. Multi-class endoscopic disease detection, however, faces three persistent challenges:...

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Evidence-Guided Diagnostic Reasoning for Pediatric Chest Radiology Based on Multimodal Large Language Models

  • Yuze Zhao,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Yingwen Wang,
  • Ruiwei Zhao,
  • Rui Feng and
  • Xiaobo Zhang

Pediatric respiratory diseases are a leading cause of hospital admissions and childhood mortality worldwide, highlighting the critical need for accurate and timely diagnosis to support effective treatment and long-term care. Chest radiography remains...

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Forensic Analysis for Source Camera Identification from EXIF Metadata

  • Pengpeng Yang,
  • Chen Zhou,
  • Daniele Baracchi,
  • Dasara Shullani,
  • Yaobin Zou and
  • Alessandro Piva

Source camera identification on smartphones constitutes a fundamental task in multimedia forensics, providing essential support for applications such as image copyright protection, illegal content tracking, and digital evidence verification. Numerous...

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206 Views
33 Pages

Autism classification is challenging due to the subtle, heterogeneous, and overlapping neural activation profiles that occur in individuals with autism. Novel deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their variants,...

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125 Views
17 Pages

Optimizing Radiographic Diagnosis Through Signal-Balanced Convolutional Models

  • Sakina Juzar Neemuchwala,
  • Raja Hashim Ali,
  • Qamar Abbas,
  • Talha Ali Khan,
  • Ambreen Shahnaz and
  • Iftikhar Ahmed

Accurate interpretation of chest radiographs is central to the early diagnosis and management of pulmonary disorders. This study introduces an explainable deep learning framework that integrates biomedical signal fidelity analysis with transfer learn...

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299 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2026

The recent advancements in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision (CV), and Internet of Things (IoT) have significantly extended various fields, particularly in surveillance systems. These innovations enable real-time faci...

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225 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2026

Reliable fault detection along transmission corridors is essential for preventing small defects from developing into long outages and costly emergency operations. This study aims to improve the field reliability of an open vocabulary vision language...

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201 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2026

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental capability in robotics and augmented reality. However, achieving accurate geometric reconstruction and consistent semantic understanding in complex environments remains challenging. Althou...

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16 Pages

27 February 2026

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), are major causes of cognitive and motor decline, yet early diagnosis remains challenging due to asymptomatic phases and limited non-invasive biom...

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178 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2026

When capturing star images in long-exposure mode, due to the relative motion between stars and space objects and the observation camera, strip tailings with different directions and lengths will be formed, resulting in a serious decline in image qual...

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Fine-Grained Age-Class Identification of Moso Bamboo Using an Improved Lightweight YOLO11 Model

  • Yingbin Zhang,
  • Xinhuang Zhang,
  • Zhichao Cai,
  • Xi He,
  • Shuwei Chen,
  • Zhengxuan Lai,
  • Kunyong Yu and
  • Riwen Lai

27 February 2026

Accurate identification of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) age classes is essential for effective forestry resource management, yet existing methods often struggle to achieve a satisfactory balance between accuracy and computational efficiency und...

  • Communication
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240 Views
12 Pages

Lensless Quantitative Phase Imaging with Bayer-Filtered Color Sensors Under Sequential RGB-LED Illumination

  • Jiajia Wu,
  • Yining Li,
  • Yuheng Luo,
  • Leiting Pan,
  • Pengming Song and
  • Qiang Xu

26 February 2026

Lensless on-chip microscopy enables high-throughput, wide-FOV imaging; however, the Bayer color filter array (CFA) in standard color sensors spatially multiplexes spectral channels, introducing sub-sampling and spectral crosstalk that degrade phase r...

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39 Pages

26 February 2026

Emerging digital technologies, including immersive environments (VR/AR/XR) and Vision–Language Models (VLMs), have the potential to reshape digital pathology and medical imaging. While immersive tools can enhance spatial visualization and proce...

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283 Views
21 Pages

Design and Development of an Automated Pipeline for Medical Hyperspectral Image Acquisition, Processing, and Fusion

  • Felix Wühler,
  • Tim Markus Häußermann,
  • Alessa Rache,
  • Björn van Marwick,
  • Carmen Wängler,
  • Julian Reichwald and
  • Matthias Rädle

25 February 2026

Automated and comprehensive processing of hyperspectral image data is increasingly important in academic research and medical technology. This study presents an automated processing pipeline that integrates hyperspectral image acquisition, analysis,...

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286 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2026

Accurate identification of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related cellular characteristics from microscopy images is essential for understanding neurodegenerative mechanisms at the cellular level. While most computational approaches focus on macrosco...

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234 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2026

Circular-Scan photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can provide high-resolution images of optical absorption, but its analytical reconstructions, such as delay-and-sum (DAS), are highly sensitive to scanning radius (SR) inaccuracies, which cause severe geom...

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276 Views
31 Pages

24 February 2026

Microblind hole processing quality inspection, especially accurately identifying microblind hole contour features and precisely detecting 3D and morphological parameters, has always been challenging, especially for accurately identifying those of dif...

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33 Pages

Hybrid MICO-LAC Segmentation with Panoptic Tumor Instance Analysis for Dense Breast Mammograms

  • Razia Jamil,
  • Min Dong,
  • Orken Mamyrbayev and
  • Ainur Akhmediyarova

24 February 2026

This study proposes a clinically driven hybrid segmentation framework for dense breast tissue analysis in mammographic images, addressing persistent challenges associated with intensity inhomogeneity, low-contrast, and complex tumor morphology. The f...

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234 Views
33 Pages

24 February 2026

Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) plays a crucial role in Earth observation. Current deep learning methods, while accurate, tend to focus on high-level semantic features and overlook complementary shallow details such as edges and textures....

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243 Views
27 Pages

LTPNet: Lesion-Aware Triple-Path Feature Fusion Network for Skin Lesion Segmentation

  • Yange Sun,
  • Sen Chen,
  • Huaping Guo,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Hongzhou Yue and
  • Yan Feng

24 February 2026

Skin lesion segmentation has achieved notable progress in recent years; however, accurate delineation remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, ambiguous boundaries, and low lesion-to-skin contrast. To address these issues, we propose the lesio...

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19 Pages

24 February 2026

UV parameterization is a fundamental step in building textured 3D models, but minimizing texture distortion and ensuring seams are placed along meaningful boundaries remains a challenge. This paper proposes UVSegNet, a novel semantic boundary-aware U...

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302 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2026

Embedded structured light cameras have been widely applied in various fields. However, due to constraints such as insufficient computing resources, it remains difficult to achieve high-speed structured light point cloud computation. To address this i...

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231 Views
25 Pages

MDF2Former: Multi-Scale Dual-Domain Feature Fusion Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification of Bacteria in Murine Wounds

  • Decheng Wu,
  • Wendan Liu,
  • Rui Li,
  • Xudong Fu,
  • Lin Tao,
  • Yinli Tian,
  • Anqiang Zhang,
  • Zhen Wang and
  • Hao Tang

19 February 2026

Bacterial wound infection poses a major challenge in trauma care and can lead to severe complications such as sepsis and organ failure. Therefore, rapid and accurate identification of the pathogen, along with targeted intervention, is of vital import...

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362 Views
26 Pages

Classification of the Surrounding Rock Based on Image Processing Analysis and Transfer Learning

  • Yanyun Fan,
  • Jiaqi Zhu,
  • Hua Luo,
  • Yaxi Shen,
  • Shuanglong Wang,
  • Xiaoning Liu,
  • Dong Li and
  • Chuhan Deng

19 February 2026

Currently, standardized classification methods of surrounding rock are relatively insufficient. The classification of surrounding rock mainly relies on the subjective judgment of technicians, leading to diverse evaluation results. This study focuses...

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35 Pages

Analysis of Biological Images and Quantitative Monitoring Using Deep Learning and Computer Vision

  • Aaron Gálvez-Salido,
  • Francisca Robles,
  • Rodrigo J. Gonçalves,
  • Roberto de la Herrán,
  • Carmelo Ruiz Rejón and
  • Rafael Navajas-Pérez

18 February 2026

Automated biological counting is essential for scaling wildlife monitoring and biodiversity assessments, as manual processing currently limits analytical effort and scalability. This review evaluates the integration of deep learning and computer visi...

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259 Views
22 Pages

Automated Compactness Quantitative Metrics for Wrist Bone on Conventional Radiography in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Clinical Evaluation Study

  • Jiajing Zhou,
  • Junmu Peng,
  • Haolin Wang,
  • Hiroshi Kataoka,
  • Masaya Mukai,
  • Tunlada Wiriyanukhroh and
  • Tamotsu Kamishima

18 February 2026

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) frequently affects the joints of the hands, with joint space narrowing (JSN) representing an important early marker of structural damage. The semi-quantitative Sharp/van der Heijde (SvdH) scoring system is widely used in cli...

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244 Views
20 Pages

SREF: Semantics-Refined Feature Extraction for Long-Term Visual Localization

  • Danfeng Wu,
  • Kaifeng Zhu,
  • Heng Shi,
  • Fenfen Zhou and
  • Minchi Kuang

18 February 2026

Accurate and robust visual localization under changing environments remains a fundamental challenge in autonomous driving and mobile robotics. Traditional handcrafted features often degrade under long-term illumination and viewpoint variations, while...

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324 Views
17 Pages

Print Quality Assessment of QR Code Elements Achieved by the Digital Thermal Transfer Process

  • Igor Majnarić,
  • Marija Jelkić,
  • Marko Morić and
  • Krunoslav Hajdek

18 February 2026

The new European Regulation (EU) 2025/40 includes provisions on modern packaging and packaging waste. It defines the use of image QR codes on packaging (items 71 and 161) and in personal documents, making line barcodes a thing of the past. The defini...

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280 Views
27 Pages

15 February 2026

Road defect detection is essential for traffic safety and infrastructure maintenance. Excising automated methods based on 2D image analysis lack spatial context and cannot provide accurate 3D localization required for maintenance planning. We propose...

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471 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2026

Liver fibrosis (LF) represents a crucial intermediate stage in the pathological progression from chronic liver disease to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Early and accurate diagnosis is of vital importance for the intervention treatment of di...

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305 Views
42 Pages

14 February 2026

Pneumonia is one of the main reasons for child mortality, with chest radiography (CXR) being essential for its diagnosis. However, the low radiation exposure in pediatric analysis complicates the accurate detection of pneumonia, making traditional ex...

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252 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2026

Medical image classification is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and underpins a wide range of clinical applications, including dermatological screening, retinal disease assessment, and malignant tissue detection. In recent years, diffusi...

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261 Views
22 Pages

11 February 2026

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) is an essential low-level visual task that aims to produce high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. However, most existing SISR methods heavily rely on ideal degradation kernels and rarely consider the a...

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