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Wavelet functions allow the sparse and efficient representation of a signal at different scales. Recently the application of wavelets to the denoising of maps of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations has been proposed. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Maisinger , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

Inconsistency in contrast enhancement can be used to expose image forgeries. In this work, we describe a new method to estimate contrast enhancement from a single image. Our method takes advantage of the nature of contrast enhancement as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Longyin Wen , Honggang Qi , Siwei Lyu

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) aims to completely remove malignant lesions while maximizing healthy tissue preservation. Intraoperative margin assessment is essential to achieve a balance between thorough cancer resection and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Pouya Afshin , David Helminiak , Tongtong Lu , Tina Yen , Julie M. Jorns , Mollie Patton , Bing Yu , Dong Hye Ye

Deep learning-based methods for low-light image enhancement typically require enormous paired training data, which are impractical to capture in real-world scenarios. Recently, unsupervised approaches have been explored to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Feng Zhang , Yuanjie Shao , Yishi Sun , Kai Zhu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Depth estimation from monocular endoscopic images presents significant challenges due to the complexity of endoscopic surgery, such as irregular shapes of human soft tissues, as well as variations in lighting conditions. Existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Dawei Lu , Deqiang Xiao , Danni Ai , Jingfan Fan , Tianyu Fu , Yucong Lin , Hong Song , Xujiong Ye , Lei Zhang , Jian Yang

Endoscopic imaging is essential for real-time visualization of internal organs, yet conventional systems remain bulky, complex, and expensive due to their reliance on large, multi-element optical components. This limits their accessibility…

Capsule endoscopy is a novel and non-invasive method for diagnosis, which assists gastroenterologists to monitor the digestive track. Although this new technology has many advantages over the conventional endoscopy, there are weaknesses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-01 Mohammad Amin Khorsandi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Low-contrast image enhancement is essential for high-quality image display and other visual applications. However, it is a challenging task as the enhancement is expected to increase the visibility of an image while maintaining its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Thaweesak Trongtirakul , Sos Agaian

We propose a fast, distance-preserving, binary embedding algorithm to transform a high-dimensional dataset $\mathcal{T}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ into binary sequences in the cube $\{\pm 1\}^m$. When $\mathcal{T}$ consists of well-spread (i.e.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Jinjie Zhang , Rayan Saab

In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

To enhance the robustness of the Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) algorithm for image classification, a topological data analysis (TDA)-based robustness optimization algorithm for LightGBM, TDA-LightGBM, is proposed to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Han Yang , Guangjun Qin , Ziyuan Liu , Yongqing Hu , Qinglong Dai

With applications ranging from metabolomics to histopathology, quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is a powerful label-free imaging modality. Despite significant advances in fast multiplexed imaging sensors and deep-learning-based inverse…

MRI images of the same subject in different contrasts contain shared information, such as the anatomical structure. Utilizing the redundant information amongst the contrasts to sub-sample and faithfully reconstruct multi-contrast images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xinwen Liu , Jing Wang , Fangfang Tang , Shekhar S. Chandra , Feng Liu , Stuart Crozier

Photo-Acoustic Tomography (PAT) can reconstruct a distribution of optical absorbers acting as instantaneous sound sources in subcutaneous microvasculature of a human breast. Adjoint methods for PAT, typically Time-Reversal (TR) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Hongxiang Lin , Takashi Azuma , Mehmet Burcin Unlu , Shu Takagi

Optical endomicroscopy (OEM) is an emerging technology platform with preclinical and clinical imaging applications. Pulmonary OEM via fibre bundles has the potential to provide in vivo, in situ molecular signatures of disease such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ahmed Karam Eldaly , Yoann Altmann , Antonios Perperidis , Nikola Krstajic , Tushar Choudhary , Kevin Dhaliwal , Stephen McLaughlin

The usage of digital content (photos and videos) in a variety of applications has increased due to the popularity of multimedia devices. These uses include advertising campaigns, educational resources, and social networking platforms. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Muhammad Turab

An extended aperture has the potential to greatly improve ultrasound imaging performance. This work extends the effective aperture size by coherently compounding the received radio frequency data from multiple transducers. A framework is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Laura Peralta , Alberto Gomez , Ying Luan , Baehyung Kim , Joseph V. Hajnal , Robert J. Eckersley

In an underwater scene, wavelength-dependent light absorption and scattering degrade the visibility of images, causing low contrast and distorted color casts. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Saeed Anwar , Chongyi Li , Fatih Porikli