The digital comic book market is growing every year now, mixing digitized and digital-born comics. Digitized comics suffer from a limited automatic content understanding which restricts online content search and reading applications. This study shows...
Technological advancements have enabled users to digitize and store an unlimited number of multimedia documents, including images and videos. However, the heterogeneous nature of multimedia content poses significant challenges in efficient indexing a...
Image analysis techniques have been applied to measure the displacements, strain field, and crack distribution of structures in the laboratory environment, and present strong potential for use in structural health monitoring applications. Compared wi...
Robot localization is an important task for mobile robot navigation. There are many methods focused on this issue. Some methods are implemented in indoor and outdoor environments. However, robot localization in textureless environments is still a cha...
Digitalisation has opened a wealth of new data opportunities by revolutionizing how images are captured. Although the cost of data generation is no longer a major concern, the data management and processing have become a bottleneck. Any successful vi...
Image matching is a basic task in three-dimensional reconstruction, which, in recent years, has attracted extensive attention in academic and industrial circles. However, when dealing with large-scale image datasets, these methods have low accuracy a...
Background: Skin lesions associated with head and neck carcinomas present a diagnostic challenge. Conventional imaging methods, such as dermoscopy and RGB imaging, often face limitations in providing detailed information about skin lesions and accura...
Lettuce is an important vegetable in the human diet and is commonly consumed for salad. It is a source of vitamin A, which plays a vital role in human health. Improvements in lettuce production will be needed to ensure a stable and economically avail...
An image quality matrix provides a significant principle for objectively observing an image based on an alteration between the original and distorted images. During the past two decades, a novel universal image quality assessment has been developed w...
The human visual system (HVS), affected by viewing distance when perceiving the stereo image information, is of great significance to study of stereoscopic image quality assessment. Many methods of stereoscopic image quality assessment do not have co...
The Boltzmann–Gibbs and Tsallis entropies are essential concepts in statistical physics, which have found multiple applications in many engineering and science areas. In particular, we focus our interest on their applications to image processing thro...
When underwater vehicles work, underwater images are often absorbed by light and scattered and diffused by floating objects, which leads to the degradation of underwater images. The generative adversarial network (GAN) is widely used in underwater im...
A new technique for the refractive index change with high-sensitivity measurements was proposed by the digital image of porous silicon (PSi) microarray utilization in this paper. Under the irradiation of a He-Ne laser, the surface images of the PSi a...
Blood vessel visualization technology allows nursing staff to transition from traditional palpation or touch to locate the subcutaneous blood vessels to visualized localization by providing a clear visual aid for performing various medical procedures...
Plastic greenhouses (PGs) play a vital role in modern agricultural development by providing a controlled environment for the cultivation of food crops. Their widespread adoption has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and impact the local envi...
Image deraining is increasingly critical in the domain of computer vision. However, there is a lack of fast deraining algorithms for multiple images without temporal and spatial features. To fill this gap, an efficient image-deraining algorithm based...
A cloud property retrieved from multispectral imagers having spectral channels in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) and/or midwave infrared (MWIR) is the cloud effective particle radius (CER), a radiatively relevant weighting of the cloud particle size d...
Detection of road pavement cracks is important and needed at an early stage to repair the road and extend its lifetime for maintaining city roads. Cracks are hard to detect from images taken with visible spectrum cameras due to noise and ambiguity wi...
The growth process of soybean plants needs a lot of water. The rapid detection of canopy wilting of soybean under drought stress is of great significance for soybean variety breeding, cultivation regulation and fine management. Aiming at the problems...
The M estimator is a recently proposed image-quality index used to evaluate the despeckling operation in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data. It is used also to rank despeckling filters and to improve their design. As a difference with traditio...
Purpose: The aortic time-enhancement curve obtained from dynamic CT myocardial perfusion imaging can be used to derive the cardiac output (CO) index based on the indicator dilution principle. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect...
For synthetic infra-red (IR) image generation, a new approach using CycleGAN based on the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) is addressed. In this study, how window sizes and weight parameters of SSIM would affect the synthetic IR image const...
Soil quality (SQ) assessment has numerous applications for managing sustainable soil function. Airborne imaging spectroscopy (IS) is an advanced tool for studying natural and artificial materials, in general, and soil properties, in particular. The p...
Background: Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition that can affect the gastrointestinal tract and cause significant extraintestinal manifestations. Diagnosing and monitoring disease activity, especially in pediatric patients,...
The image quality index for whole-body bone scintigraphy has traditionally relied on the total count (Total-C) with a threshold of ≥1.5 million counts (MC). However, Total-C measurements are susceptible to variability owing to urine retention. Thi...
Coral reefs are complex, heterogeneous environments where it is common for the features of interest to be smaller than the spatial dimensions of imaging sensors. While the coverage of live coral at any point in time is a critical environmental manage...
As a basic agricultural parameter in the formation, transformation, and consumption of surface water resources, soil moisture has a very important influence on the vegetation growth, agricultural production, and healthy operation of regional ecosyste...
Natural rubber quality assessment traditionally relies on subjective visual inspection, leading to inconsistent grading and processing inefficiencies. This study presents a colorimetric imaging system integrating 48-megapixel image acquisition with a...
In contrast to herbaceous canopies and forests, savannas are grassland ecosystems with sparsely distributed individual trees, so the canopy is spatially heterogeneous and open, whereas the woody cover in savannas, e.g., tree cover, adversely affects...
A new, compact planar wideband negative index metamaterial based on a modified split ring resonator (SRR) is studied to enhance performance of ultrawideband antenna. A compact, metamaterial (MTM)-inspired microstrip antenna is presented for microwave...
The study looks forward to define a methodology that can improve the quality of the wine produced, through selective crop management, for which a multiple regression analysis was used between satellite images Sentinel 2 and polyphenols and color inde...
In recent years, the use of image fusion method has received increasing attention in remote sensing, vegetation cover changes, vegetation indices (VIs) mapping, etc. For making high-resolution and good quality (with low-cost) VI mapping from a fused...
This study addresses the limited mechanistic understanding behind medical imaging for tumor microenvironment (TME) assessment. We developed a novel framework that analyzes tumor imaging heterogeneity index (TIHI)-correlated genes to uncover underlyin...
A miniaturized antenna employing a negative index metamaterial with modified split-ring resonator (SRR) and capacitance-loaded strip (CLS) unit cells is presented for Ultra wideband (UWB) microwave imaging applications. Four left-handed (LH) metamate...
Due to the importance of coastline detection in coastal studies, different methods have been developed in recent decades in accordance with the evolution of measuring techniques such as remote sensing. This work proposes an automatic methodology with...
The objective of the study was to develop and validate a ground-based method using a depth image sensor equipped with depth, visible red, green, blue (RGB), and near-infrared bands to measure the leaf area index (LAI) based on the relative illuminanc...
Background/Objectives: The glymphatic system plays a crucial role in clearing brain metabolic waste, and its dysfunction has been correlated to various neurological disorders. The Diffusion Tensor Imaging Analysis Along the Perivascular Space (DTI-AL...
The structural index is an important quantitative parameter for revealing the structural properties of loess. However, there is no a widely accepted measurement method for structural index at present. This study aims at presenting a novel method for...
Retinal vessel segmentation, skeletonization, and the generation of vessel segments are considered significant steps in any automated system for measuring the vessel biomarkers of several disease diagnoses. Most of the current tortuosity quantificati...
Background: Psychophysical factors may have an impact on the disease of obesity, and it is important to explore which aspects may play an important role on the well-being of obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery. The purpose of this study was t...
In hyperspectral remote sensing, the clustering technique is an important issue of concern. Affinity propagation is a widely used clustering algorithm. However, the complex structure of the hyperspectral image (HSI) dataset presents challenge for the...
The growth and yield of crops in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world is driven by the amount of soil moisture available to the crop through rainfall and irrigation. Various methods have been developed for quantifying the soil moisture status...
Background: This study examined the relationship between screen time, body image satisfaction, body mass index (BMI), and quality of life among children and adolescents from two school clusters in Sesimbra, Portugal. Methods: The sample included 80 s...
The coastal environment is a natural and economic resource of extraordinary value, but it is constantly modifying and susceptible to climate change, human activities and natural hazards. Remote sensing techniques have proved to be excellent for coast...
Gastric ulcers are one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases. In this study, as an attempt to reduce the minimal error in clinical observations during the diagnosis of gastric ulcers, the applicability of improved ImageJ analysis (IA) was inve...
The degradation of road pavements due to environmental factors is a pressing issue in infrastructure maintenance, necessitating precise identification of pavement distresses. The pavement condition index (PCI) serves as a critical metric for evaluati...
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The prevalence of obesity is increasing globally and is linked with poor body image perception. The aim of the present study was to identify the relationships of body image (BI) and body mass index (BMI) with weight control practices among university...
Tropical forests play a vital role in biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainability. Although different time-series spatial resolution satellite images have provided opportunities for tropical forests classification, the complexity...
Background and Objectives: Obesity has been linked to various cardiovascular risk factors, increased incidence of coronary artery disease, and myocardial perfusion defects. The aim of this study was to investigate if body mass index (BMI) and waist c...
In this paper, we took the urban roads in the Changsha downtown areas as an example to identify the green view index (GVI) of urban roads based on street view images (SVIs). First, the road network information was obtained through OpenStreetMap, and...
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