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Automatic and precise multi-class vertebrae segmentation from CT images is crucial for various clinical applications. However, due to similar appearances between adjacent vertebrae and the existence of various pathologies, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xin You , Yixin Lou , Minghui Zhang , Jie Yang , Yun Gu

The deep neural network is a research hotspot for histopathological image analysis, which can improve the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis for pathologists or be used for disease screening. The whole slide pathological image can reach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Tingting Zheng , Weixing chen , Shuqin Li , Hao Quan , Qun Bai , Tianhang Nan , Song Zheng , Xinghua Gao , Yue Zhao , Xiaoyu Cui

This paper offers a new authentication algorithm based on image matching of nano-resolution visual identifiers with tree-shaped patterns. The algorithm includes image-to-tree conversion by greedy extraction of the fractal pattern skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Hao Wang , Xiwen Chen , Abolfazl Razi , Rahul Amin

Medical images can be used to predict a clinical score coding for the severity of a disease, a pain level or the complexity of a cognitive task. In all these cases, the predicted variable has a natural order. While a standard classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Fabian Pedregosa , Alexandre Gramfort , Gaël Varoquaux , Elodie Cauvet , Christophe Pallier , Bertrand Thirion

Applying convolutional neural networks to large images is computationally expensive because the amount of computation scales linearly with the number of image pixels. We present a novel recurrent neural network model that is capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Volodymyr Mnih , Nicolas Heess , Alex Graves , Koray Kavukcuoglu

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

Over the long history of machine learning, which dates back several decades, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been used mainly for sequential data and time series and generally with 1D information. Even in some rare studies on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nguyen Huu Phong , Bernardete Ribeiro

This paper introduces SpineFM, a novel pipeline that achieves state-of-the-art performance in the automatic segmentation and identification of vertebral bodies in cervical and lumbar spine radiographs. SpineFM leverages the regular geometry…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Samuel J. Simons , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

There has been a significant increase from 2010 to 2016 in the number of people suffering from spine problems. The automatic image segmentation of the spine obtained from a computed tomography (CT) image is important for diagnosing spine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Malinda Vania , Dawit Mureja , Deukhee Lee

Blind image deblurring is a challenging problem in computer vision, which aims to restore both the blur kernel and the latent sharp image from only a blurry observation. Inspired by the prevalent self-example prior in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yuanchao Bai , Huizhu Jia , Ming Jiang , Xianming Liu , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao

We investigate the prospect of reconstructing the ''cosmic distance ladder'' of the Universe using a novel deep learning framework called LADDER - Learning Algorithm for Deep Distance Estimation and Reconstruction. LADDER is trained on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Rahul Shah , Soumadeep Saha , Purba Mukherjee , Utpal Garain , Supratik Pal

Stairs are common building structures in urban environments, and stair detection is an important part of environment perception for autonomous mobile robots. Most existing algorithms have difficulty combining the visual information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Chen Wang , Zhongcai Pei , Shuang Qiu , Zhiyong Tang

A wide range of imaging techniques and data formats available for medical images make accurate retrieval from image databases challenging. Efficient retrieval systems are crucial in advancing medical research, enabling large-scale studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Farnaz Khun Jush , Tuan Truong , Steffen Vogler , Matthias Lenga

In a recurrent setting, conventional approaches to neural architecture search find and fix a general model for all data samples and time steps. We propose a novel algorithm that can dynamically search for the structure of cells in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xin Qian , Matthew Kennedy , Diego Klabjan

Modeling the distribution of high dimensional data by a latent tree graphical model is a prevalent approach in multiple scientific domains. A common task is to infer the underlying tree structure, given only observations of its terminal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-08 Yariv Aizenbud , Ariel Jaffe , Meng Wang , Amber Hu , Noah Amsel , Boaz Nadler , Joseph T. Chang , Yuval Kluger

Ladder networks are a notable new concept in the field of semi-supervised learning by showing state-of-the-art results in image recognition tasks while being compatible with many existing neural architectures. We present the recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marian Tietz , Tayfun Alpay , Johannes Twiefel , Stefan Wermter

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

3D Lidar imaging can be a challenging modality when using multiple wavelengths, or when imaging in high noise environments (e.g., imaging through obscurants). This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian algorithm for the robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Abderrahim Halimi , Aurora Maccarone , Robert Lamb , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin

Vertebral body compression fractures are reliable early signs of osteoporosis. Though these fractures are visible on Computed Tomography (CT) images, they are frequently missed by radiologists in clinical settings. Prior research on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Maxim Pisov , Vladimir Kondratenko , Alexey Zakharov , Alexey Petraikin , Victor Gombolevskiy , Sergey Morozov , Mikhail Belyaev