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This study presents an innovative computer vision framework designed to analyze human movements in industrial settings, aiming to enhance biomechanical analysis by integrating seamlessly with existing software. Through a combination of…

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death globally. Non-invasive, cost-effective imaging techniques play a crucial role in early detection and prevention of CVD. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has gained recognition…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a micrometer-scale, volumetric imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. OCT instruments image by raster-scanning a focused light spot across the retina, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Stefan Ploner , Siyu Chen , Jungeun Won , Lennart Husvogt , Katharina Breininger , Julia Schottenhamml , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

Segmentation of 3D micro-Computed Tomographic uCT) images of rock samples is essential for further Digital Rock Physics (DRP) analysis, however, conventional methods such as thresholding, watershed segmentation, and converging active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Ying Da Wang , Mehdi Shabaninejad , Ryan T. Armstrong , Peyman Mostaghimi

Recently, the emergence of multitask deep learning models has enhanced catheterization procedures by providing tactile and visual perception data through an end-to-end architecture. This information is derived from a segmentation and force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Pedram Fekri , Mehrdad Zadeh , Javad Dargahi

Inverse scattering in optical coherence tomography (OCT) seeks to recover both structural images and intrinsic tissue optical properties, including refractive index, scattering coefficient, and anisotropy. This inverse problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jinglun Yu , Yaning Wang , Wenhan Guo , Yuan Gao , Yu Sun , Jin U. Kang

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) based 3D imaging is widely used in airports for aviation security screening whilst prior work on prohibited item detection focuses primarily on 2D X-ray imagery. In this paper, we aim to evaluate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Qian Wang , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Toby P. Breckon

Human skin can accurately sense the self-decoupled normal and shear forces when in contact with objects of different sizes. Although there exist many soft and conformable tactile sensors on robotic applications able to decouple the normal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Wentao Chen , Youcan Yan , Zeqing Zhang , Lei Yang , Jia Pan

Optical flow estimation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently solved various tasks of computer vision successfully. In this paper we adapt a state-of-the-art approach for optical flow estimation to omnidirectional images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 André Apitzsch , Roman Seidel , Gangolf Hirtz

$\mathbf{Purpose}$: To use artificial intelligence (AI) to: (1) exploit biomechanical knowledge of the optic nerve head (ONH) from a relatively large population; (2) assess ONH robustness from a single optical coherence tomography (OCT)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Fabian A. Braeu , Thanadet Chuangsuwanich , Tin A. Tun , Alexandre H. Thiery , Tin Aung , George Barbastathis , Michaël J. A. Girard

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a crucial tool in the clinical screening of retinal diseases, allowing for accurate 3D imaging of blood vessels through non-invasive scanning. However, the hardware-based approach for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Shuhan Li , Dong Zhang , Xiaomeng Li , Chubin Ou , Lin An , Yanwu Xu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), much larger image datasets are routinely acquired compared to what was possible using the previous generation of time-domain OCT. Thus, the need for 3-D…

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Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxel-wise predictions of volumetric images. In this work, we show that a multi-class 3D FCN trained on manually labeled CT scans of several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Holger R. Roth , Hirohisa Oda , Xiangrong Zhou , Natsuki Shimizu , Ying Yang , Yuichiro Hayashi , Masahiro Oda , Michitaka Fujiwara , Kazunari Misawa , Kensaku Mori

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, micrometer-scale imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. By raster-scanning the retina, sequential cross-sectional image slices are acquired to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Stefan Ploner , Jungeun Won , Julia Schottenhamml , Jessica Girgis , Kenneth Lam , Nadia Waheed , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

As a non-invasive imaging modality, optical coherence tomography (OCT) can provide micrometer-resolution 3D images of retinal structures. Therefore it is commonly used in the diagnosis of retinal diseases associated with edema in and under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Donghuan Lu , Morgan Heisler , Sieun Lee , Gavin Ding , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg

Alignment of contrast and non-contrast-enhanced imaging is essential for the quantification of changes in several biomedical applications. In particular, the extraction of cartilage shape from contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Jian-Qing Zheng , Ngee Han Lim , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

In orthodontic treatment, the biological response of the tooth, periodontal ligament, and bone complex to orthodontic force is crucial in influencing treatment outcomes. The challenge lies in accurately measuring, estimating, and predicting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Waheed Ahmad , Jing Xiong , Zeyang Xia

Estimating force constants for crystal structures is crucial for calculating various phonon-related properties. However, this task becomes particularly challenging when dealing with a large number of atoms or when third- and higher-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 Atsuto Seko , Atsushi Togo

Computational corrections of defocus and aberrations in optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers a promising approach to realize high-resolution imaging with deep imaging depth, but without additional high hardware costs. However, these…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shuichi Makita , Naoki Fukutake , Lida Zhu , Yoshiaki Yasuno

We introduce a method for computing quantum mechanical forces through surface integrals over the stress tensor within the framework of density functional theory. This approach avoids the inaccuracies of traditional force calculations using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Moritz Gubler , Jonas A. Finkler , Stig Rune Jensen , Stefan Goedecker , Luca Frediani