Inspiring development in optical imaging enables great applications in the science and engineering industry, especially in the medical imaging area. Photonic time-stretch imaging is one emerging innovation that attracted a wide range of attention due...
The time-stretch (TS) imaging system is one type of ultrafast optical imaging system that enables imaging with an unprecedented imaging speed of tens of hundreds of megahertz. The TS imaging achieves linear one-to-one mapping between wavelength and t...
Researchers have developed a cell stretching device to mimic the in vivo mechanical environment in vitro in order to investigate cell mechanotransduction. Cyclic stretch is involved in lengthening and relaxation phases. Cells may respond to mechanica...
As a high-throughput data analysis technique, photon time stretching (PTS) is widely used in the monitoring of rare events such as cancer cells, rough waves, and the study of electronic and optical transient dynamics. The PTS technology relies on hig...
In the fields of agriculture and forestry, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a critical indicator for assessing the physiological state of plants. Traditional imaging sensors can only collect two-dimensional vegetation distribution...
The Glimmer Imager of Urbanization (GIU) on SDGSAT-1 provides high-resolution and global-coverage images of night-time lights (NLs) with 10 m panchromatic (PAN) and 40 m multispectral (MS) imagery. High-resolution 10 m MS NL images after ideal fusion...
Photonic time-stretch (PTS) technology enables revolutionary technical breakthroughs in ultrafast electronic and optical systems. By means of employing large chromatic dispersion to map the spectrum of an ultrashort optical pulse into a stretched tim...
Swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) is a widely used imaging technique, particularly in medical diagnostics, due to its ability to provide high-resolution cross-sectional images. However, one of the main challenges in SS-OCT systems is...
The interplay between the mechanical properties of double-stranded and single-stranded DNA is a phenomenon that contributes to various genetic processes in which both types of DNA structures coexist. Highly stiff DNA duplexes can stretch single-stran...
Real-time compression of images with a high dynamic range into those with a low dynamic range while preserving the maximum amount of detail is still a critical technology in infrared image processing. We propose a dynamic range compression and enhanc...
In recent years, researchers have proposed many deep learning algorithms for data representation learning. However, most deep networks require extensive training data and a lot of training time to obtain good results. In this paper, we propose a nove...
Prolonged sedentary behavior in office environments is a key risk factor for musculoskeletal disorders and metabolic health issues. While workplace stretching interventions can mitigate these risks, effective monitoring solutions are often limited by...
Background/Objectives: Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) has gained tremendous traction as a target for tumor imaging and cancer treatment, while also playing a key role in fibrosis. Our study aimed to evaluate [68Ga]Ga-DATA5m.SA.FAPi for PET imagi...
Here, we propose a novel attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy method for simultaneously monitoring the curing reaction and the diffusion behavior of curing agents at the surface of rubber in real-time. The pr...
We present a stretched radial trajectory design that enhances image resolution in MRI by expanding k-space coverage without increasing readout duration or scan time. The method dynamically modulates gradient amplitudes as a function of projection ang...
In this paper, poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) foils of comparable thickness were obtained by using 10 wt % PVA aqueous solutions exposed to microwave (MW) radiations for different times. The main goal of this paper is to identify the effects of MW irradia...
The remote sensing images acquired from the satellites are low contrast images. The availability of low contrast images and failure of the traditional methods such as Histogram Equalization and Gamma correction in preserving the brightness levels in...
This paper presents an automatic correction method for luminosity and contrast variation in fundus images. Sixty retina or fundus images with different levels of reflectance are selected from online databases and used to assess the effectiveness of t...
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used in the field of ophthalmic imaging. The existing technology cannot automatically extract the contour of the OCT images of cystoid macular edema (CME) and can only evaluate the degree of lesions by det...
Automatic registration of remote sensing images is an important task, which requires the establishment of appropriate correspondence between the sensed image and the reference image. Nowadays, the trend of satellite remote sensing technology is shift...
Photogrammetry is the process of creating three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions from two-dimensional images. In this paper, a novel method is introduced that significantly enhances 3D reconstruction by improving image quality through a combination o...
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Pelvic floor disorder (PFD) is a common disease affecting the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly women. Pelvic floor muscle (PFM) damage is related to delivery mode, fetal size, and parity. Spontaneous vaginal delivery causes especially great...
The necessity to place sensors far away from the processing unit in smart clothes or artificial skins for robots may require conductive wirings on stretchable materials at very low-cost. In this work, we present an easy method to produce wires using...
This paper aims to present the main trends of an eco-study for a possibly challenging future inland waterway transportation project. The study will prove if Torun and its Vistula stretch represent a viable and profitable spot on this inland waterway,...
Recent developments in the field of radiofrequency (RF) coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offer flexible and patient-friendly solutions. Previously, we demonstrated a proof-of-concept single-element stretchable coil design based on liquid me...
Due to the difference of factors, such as lighting conditions, shooting environments, and time, there is compound brightness difference between adjacent images, which includes local brightness difference and radiometric difference. This paper propose...
Video monitoring has become an indispensable tool to understand beach processes. However, the measurement accuracy derived from the images has been taken for granted despite its dependence on the calibration process and camera movements. An easy to i...
This experiment presents a study carried out on the electric charge passing textiles for heat production in compression weft-knitted composite fabrics used for medical purposes. The aim was to flourish compression support of knitted structure with in...
The deposited particulate material within a fibrous filter affects the pressure drop which develops through three different stages. The implementation of a time-adjustable matrix is intended to cause detachment of particle structures from fibers with...
An improved Retinex fusion image enhancement algorithm is proposed for the traditional image denoising methods and problems of halo enlargement and image overexposure after image enhancement caused by the existing Retinex algorithm. First, a homomorp...
We used synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected over Peru’s Lines and Geoglyphs of the Nasca and Palpa World Heritage Site to detect and measure landscape disturbance threatening world-renowned archaeological features and ecosystems. We employe...
Irrigated agriculture requires high reliability from water delivery networks and high flows to satisfy demand at seasonal peak times. Aquatic vegetation in irrigation channels are a major impediment to this, constraining flow rates. This work investi...
Coastal erosion and its impacts on the involved communities is a topic of great scientific interest that also reflects the need for modern as well as cost and time-effective methodologies to be integrated into or even to substitute traditional invest...
Based on deep learning, an underwater image instance segmentation method is proposed. Firstly, in view of the scarcity of underwater related data sets, the size of the data set is expanded by measures including image rotation and flipping, and image...
Flexible electronic devices, such as the typical thin-film transistors, are widely adopted in the area of sensors, displayers, wearable equipment, and such large-area applications, for their features of bending and stretching; additionally, in some a...
Fractional calculus models are steadily being incorporated into descriptions of diffusion in complex, heterogeneous materials. Biological tissues, when viewed using diffusion-weighted, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), hinder and restrict the diffusi...
The modeling and simulation of topography-induced imaging distortions are crucial for consistent radiometric information exploitation in current and forthcoming SAR-based Earth observation missions with a high spatial and temporal resolution, with re...
Partial discharge is an important symptom of cable aging, and timely detection of potential defects is of great significance to ensure the stability and safety of the power supply. However, due to the diversity of inspection equipment and information...
Lipid bilayers are supramolecular structures responsible for a range of processes, such as transmembrane transport of ions and solutes, and sorting and replication of genetic materials, to name just a few. Some of these processes are transient and cu...
The ability to accurately and non-invasively quantify highly concentrated magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is desirable for many emerging applications. Ultrashort echo time quantitative susceptibility mapping (UTE-QSM) has demonstrated the capability to...
In deepwater drilling operations, inhibiting methane hydrate (MH) formation is critical for wellbore flow assurance. This study synthesized a zwitterionic polymer NDAD and evaluated its hydrate inhibition performance through high-pressure reactor tes...
Osteosarcoma is a common type of bone tumor, particularly prevalent in children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 25 who are experiencing growth spurts during puberty. Manual delineation of tumor regions in MRI images can be laborious and tim...
In recent years, deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image enhancement has shown outstanding performance. However, due to the problems of uneven illumination and low contrast existing in endoscopic images, the implementation of medical endo...
CsI(Tl) scintillation screens have been widely applied in X-ray nondestructive testing (NDT) because of their low cost, high scintillation efficiency, and fluorescence guide columnar microstructures. The effect of humidity exposure on the microstruct...
Extracellular vesicles are evaluated by nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), providing information on their hydrodynamic diameters, and by atomic force microscopy (AFM) to calculate their geometric diameters. The aim of this study is to explore the...
This research aims at developing a flexible strain module applied to the strengthening of back muscles. Silver films were sputtered onto flexible substrates to produce a flexible sensor. Assuming that back muscle elongation is positively correlated w...
We investigate the impact of dataset augmentation and synthetic generation techniques on the accuracy of supervised audio classification based on state-of-the-art neural networks used as classifiers. Dataset augmentation techniques are applied upon t...
This experimental study probes the dynamic behaviour of a 3 mm ABS sheet during positive mould vacuum-assisted thermoforming. In this process, the sheet undergoes large and fast deformations caused by the applied vacuum and mechanical stretching by t...
In this study, a new and very quick method to depolymerize PET plastics is reported. The depolymerization experiments were conducted using a type-IV deep eutectic solvent containing ZnCl2 and urea, and a microwave oven as reactor. Different combinati...
The study explored punicalagin (PGN) as a wheat flour enhancer. The impact of PGN on the physicochemical and structural properties of wheat flour have been investigated. It turned out that PGN increased the formation time, stability, tensile resistan...
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