In modern urban environments, visual sensors are crucial for enhancing the functionality of navigation systems, particularly for devices designed for visually impaired individuals. The high-resolution images captured by these sensors form the basis f...
Image segmentation plays a central role in computer vision applications such as medical imaging, industrial inspection, and environmental monitoring. However, evaluating segmentation performance can be particularly challenging when ground truth is no...
The current COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on our daily lives. Social distancing is one of the measures that has been implemented with the aim of slowing the spread of the disease, but it is difficult for blind people to comply with this....
Background and Objectives: Vision significantly contributes to postural control, balance, coordination, and body kinematics, thus deeply influencing everyday functionality. Sight-impaired subjects often show upper body anatomofunctional and kinetic c...
In the integrated services digital broadcasting-terrestrial (ISDB-T) system, the combination of digital terrestrial transmission and MPEG-4 advanced video coding (MPEG-4 AVC) has offered ways to provide a variety of digital high-definition television...
Monitoring of the vital signs or environment of disabled people is currently very popular because it increases their safety, improves their quality of life and facilitates remote care. The article proposes a system for automatic protection against bu...
Assistive devices for visually impaired people (VIP) which support daily traveling and improve social inclusion are developing fast. Most of them try to solve the problem of navigation or obstacle avoidance, and other works focus on helping VIP to re...
The existing electrocardiogram (ECG) biometrics do not perform well when ECG changes after the enrollment phase because the feature extraction is not able to relate ECG collected during enrollment and ECG collected during classification. In this rese...
Over the last decades, plenty of ancient manuscripts have been digitized all over the world, and particularly in Europe. The fruition of these huge digital archives is often limited by the bleed-through effect due to the acid nature of the inks used,...
As the rock fracture in the roof anchorage blind zone of coal roadway develops, it not only brings about serious deformation, but also results in barrier effect on anchorage stress, restricting the efficiency of the bolt support. In this paper, the e...
This study presents a novel method to enhance the biocompatibility of decellularized porcine aortic segments while preserving their mechanical properties and histological structure. Detergent-decellularized aortic segments were treated with modified...
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Dental fluorosis in children is a prevalent disease in many regions of the world. One of its root causes is excessive exposure to high concentrations of fluoride in contaminated drinking water during tooth formation. Typically, the disease causes und...
The use of in-hole imaging to investigate geological structure characteristics is one of the crucial methods for the study of rock mass stability and rock engineering design. The in-hole images are usually influenced by the lighting and imaging chara...
The light sensing outer segments of photoreceptors (PRs) are renewed every ten days due to their high photoactivity, especially of the cones during daytime vision. This demands a tremendous amount of energy, as well as a high turnover of their main b...
Uveitis is one of the leading causes of severe vision loss that can lead to blindness worldwide. Clinical records show that early and accurate detection of vitreous inflammation can potentially reduce the blindness rate. In this paper, a novel framew...
Assistive braille technology has existed for many years with the purpose of aiding the blind in performing common tasks such as reading, writing, and communicating with others. Such technologies are aimed towards helping those who are visually impair...
Glaucoma is the second-most-blinding eye disease in the world and accurate segmentation of the optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) is essential for the diagnosis of glaucoma. To solve the problems of poor real-time performance, high algorithm complexi...
Glaucoma represents a significant global contributor to blindness. Accurately segmenting the optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) to obtain precise CDR is essential for effective screening. However, existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based seg...
Diabetes can induce diseases including diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, glaucoma, etc. The blindness caused by these diseases is irreversible. Early analysis of retinal fundus images, including optic disc and optic cup detection and retinal blood ves...
In contrast to sighted students who acquire mathematical expressions (MEs) from their visual sources, blind students must keep MEs in their memory using the Tactile or Auditory Modality. In this work, we rigorously investigate the ability to temporar...
In recent years, intelligent driving has attracted more and more attention due to its potential to revolutionize transportation safety and efficiency, emerging as a disruptive technology that reshapes the future landscape of transportation. Environme...
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the segmentation accuracy of organs at risk (OARs) when denoised computed tomography (CT) images are used as input data for a deep-learning-based auto-segmentation framework. Methods: We used non-contrast en...
Ocular infectious diseases are an important cause of potentially preventable vision loss and blindness. In the following manuscript, we will review ocular immunology and the pathogenesis of herpesviruses and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections of the c...
Glaucoma is an eye disease caused by increased intraocular pressure (IOP) that affects the optic nerve head (ONH), leading to vision problems and irreversible blindness. Background/Objectives: Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwi...
Glaucoma disease is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. This progressive ocular neuropathy is mainly caused by uncontrolled high intraocular pressure. Although there is still no cure, early detection and appropriate treatment can stop...
There are 24.5 million visually impaired and blind (VIB) students who have limited access to educational materials due to cost or availability. Although advancement in technology is prevalent, providing individualized learning using technology remain...
The olfactory bulb (OB) has an essential role in the human olfactory pathway. A change in olfactory function is associated with a change of OB volume. It has been shown to predict the prognosis of olfactory loss and its volume is a biomarker for vari...
The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundational vision model, struggles with fully automatic segmentation of specific objects. Its “segment everything” mode, reliant on a grid-based prompt strategy, suffers from localization blindness an...
Currently, glaucoma has become an important cause of blindness. At present, although glaucoma cannot be cured, early treatment can prevent it from getting worse. A reliable way to detect glaucoma is to segment the optic disc and cup and then measure...
Retinal vessel segmentation remains a challenging task because the morphology of the retinal vessels reflects the health of a person, which is essential for clinical diagnosis. Therefore, achieving accurate segmentation of the retinal vessel shape ca...
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a diabetic complication that predisposes patients to visual impairments that could lead to blindness. Lesion segmentation using deep learning algorithms is an effective measure to screen and prevent early DR. However, the...
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease process that leads to progressive damage of the optic nerve to produce visual impairment and blindness. Spectral-domain OCT technology enables peripapillary circular scans of the retina and the measurement of t...
Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most significant retinal diseases that can lead to blindness. As a result, it is critical to receive a prompt diagnosis of the disease. Manual screening can result in misdiagnosis due to human error and limited huma...
Blind and visually impaired (BVI) people face significant challenges in perception, navigation, and safety during travel. Existing infrastructure (e.g., blind lanes) and traditional aids (e.g., walking sticks, basic audio feedback) provide limited fl...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the diseases that cause blindness globally. Untreated accumulation of fat and cholesterol may trigger atherosclerosis in the diabetic patient, which may obstruct blood vessels. Retinal fundus images are used as dia...
This paper presents a novel means of sensorless drive of the winding segmented permanent magnet linear motor (WS-PMLM). In order to solve the problem of the deviation of the position and speed estimation of the mover caused by the sharp changes of th...
Diabetic retinopathy is a prevalent eye disease that poses a potential risk of blindness. Nevertheless, due to the small size of diabetic retinopathy lesions and the high interclass similarity in terms of location, color, and shape among different le...
In this paper, the use of generative multimodal models for image analysis is proposed, with the goal of determining the selection of parameters for 3D scene segmentation algorithms in systems designed to assist blind individuals in navigation. AI alg...
Deep learning-based segmentation models have made a profound impact on medical procedures, with U-Net based computed tomography (CT) segmentation models exhibiting remarkable performance. Yet, even with these advances, these models are found to be vu...
Affected by solar radiation, atmospheric windows, radiation aberrations, and other air and sky environmental factors, remote sensing images usually contain a large amount of noise and suffer from problems such as non-uniform image feature density. Th...
Glaucoma is a visual disease that affects millions of people, and early diagnosis can prevent total blindness. One way to diagnose the disease is through fundus image examination, which analyzes the optic disc and cup structures. However, screening p...
The electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has become a popular biometric modality due to characteristics that make it suitable for developing reliable authentication systems. However, the long segment of signal required for recognition is still one of the l...
On 6 February 2023 (UTC), an earthquake doublet, consisting of the Mw 7.8 Pazarcik earthquake and the Mw 7.5 Elbistan earthquake, struck south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria, which was the largest earthquake that occurred in Turkey since the 1...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most important microvascular complications associated with diabetes mellitus. The early signs of DR are microaneurysms, which can lead to complete vision loss. The detection of DR at an early stage can help to...
In this study, a novel algorithm for optimizing the coverage of directed sensor networks is proposed. The deployment of sensor networks is typically random, leading to the potential issues of extensive coverage overlaps and blind areas. To address th...
Ophthalmological services face global inadequacies, especially in low- and middle-income countries, which are marked by a shortage of practitioners and equipment. This study employed a portable slit lamp microscope with video capabilities and cloud s...
Background: The external transformations associated with sexual maturation in Platynereis dumerilii (Audouin and Milne Edwards) are well studied, whereas the internal changes along the body axis have not been systematically analyzed. Therefore, we ex...
We describe the exceptional case of spinal cord malformation, associating neurenteric cyst, and cervical vertebral malformation, initially presenting as torticollis. A 4-month-old child presented with torticollis to the right since birth. A cervical...
In this paper, we propose a single image dehazing method aiming at addressing the inherent limitations of the extensively employed dark channel prior (DCP). More concretely, we introduce the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to segment the input hazy imag...
Three strong earthquakes ruptured the northwest Thessaly area, Central Greece, on the 3, 4 and 12 March 2021. Since the area did not rupture by strong earthquakes in the instrumental period of seismicity, it is of great interest to understand the sei...
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