一种混合曲率流图像除噪方法

基于几何曲线(曲面)演化的图像除噪和恢复是图像处理领域中的一个研究热点.本文利用几何和非线性扩散理论分析最大最小曲率流曲线演化方程,提出结合边缘信息的开关函数控制曲线(曲面)演化的混合曲率流图像除噪模型.实验证明,与其它除噪模型比较,该模型能更好解决曲线演化模型在对图像除噪时边缘保护和噪声去除的问题,提高曲线演化模型的图像除噪能力,并改善图像的可视性.     

A framework with modified fast FCM for brain MR images segmentation

Intensity inhomogeneity, noise and partial volume (PV) effect render a challenging task for segmentation of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. Most of the current MR image segmentation methods focus on only one or two of the effects listed above. In this paper, a framework with modified fast fuzzy c-means for brain MR images segmentation is proposed to take all these effects into account simultaneously and improve the accuracy of image segmentations. Firstly, we propose a new automated method to determine the initial values of the centroids. Secondly, an adaptive method to incorporate the local spatial continuity is proposed to overcome the noise effectively and prevent the edge from blurring. The intensity inhomogeneity is estimated by a linear combination of a set of basis functions. Meanwhile, a regularization term is added to reduce the iteration steps and accelerate the algorithm. The weights of the regularization terms are all automatically computed to avoid the manually tuned parameter. Synthetic and real MR images are used to test the proposed framework. Improved performance of the proposed algorithm is observed where the intensity inhomogeneity, noise and PV effect are commonly encountered. The experimental results show that the proposed method has stronger anti-noise property and higher segmentation precision than other reported FCM-based techniques.     

基于方向极傅里叶频谱2DPCA 的尾迹检测

针对航空图像中的水面尾迹, 提出了一种基于方向极傅里叶频谱二维主成分分析(Two-dimensional principal component analysis, 2DPCA)的尾迹自动检测算法. 该方法根据子图像的纹理方向, 对傅里叶频谱进行极坐标变换, 使得到的方向极傅里叶频谱具有平移和旋转不变性. 相对于文献中对极频谱的直接划分作为纹理特征, 本文对它进行一次列二维主成分分析, 一次行二维主成分分析和两次二维主成分分析, 实验结果表明本文方法具有更高的分类识别率, 其中两次二维主成分分析的分类识别率最高. 对40幅图像的测试结果表明, 本文的方法能够有效地自动检测航空图像中的水面尾迹纹理.     

Shape statistics variational approach for the outer contour segmentation of left ventricle MR images.

Segmentation of left ventricles is one of the important research topics in cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The segmentation precision influences the authenticity of ventricular motion reconstruction. In left ventricle MR images, the weak and broken boundary increases the difficulty of segmenting the outer contour precisely. In this paper, we present an improved shape statistics variational approach for the outer contour segmentation of left ventricle MR images. We use the Mumford-Shah model in an object feature space and incorporate the shape statistics and an edge image to the variational framework. The introduction of shape statistics can improve the segmentation with broken boundaries. The edge image can enhance the weak boundary and thus improve the segmentation precision. The generation of the object feature image, which has homogenous "intensities" in the left ventricle, facilitates the application of the Mumford-Shah model. A comparison of mean absolute distance analysis between different contours generated with our algorithm and that generated by hand demonstrated that our method can achieve a higher segmentation precision and a better stability than various approaches. It is a semiautomatic way for the segmentation of the outer contour of the left ventricle in clinical applications.     

左心室核磁共振图像的自动分割

目前左心室核磁共振图像的分割方法,大部分是半自动的,如Snake方法;为了能实现全自动分割,该文先采用SVM对图像进行左心室定位,然后用水平集(Level Set)方法进行分割,针对水平集符号距离函数构造计算量大的问题,提出了一种新的符号距离函数(SDF)的生成方法——中线延拓方法,它只需对图像进行一次扫描就可以生成SDF,同时还可以记下每点对应的曲线上的最近邻点,为速度项中曲率的扩展提供条件,针对核磁共振图像成像特点,特别是对加标记线的左心室核磁共振图像,引入了块像素变差和灰度相似性的思想,对水平集方法的速度项进行了改进,提高了分割精度,该方法能全自动、快速、准确地实现左心室的分割,文中给出了合成图像和左心室核磁共振图像的分割结果。     

一种有效的手写体汉字组合特征的抽取与识别算法

基于特征融合的思想,从有利于模式分类的角度,推广了典型相关分析的理论,建立了广义的典型相关分析用于图像识别的理论框架。在该框架下,首先利用广义的典型相关判据准则函数,求取两组特征矢量的广义投影矢量集,构成一对变换矩阵;然后根据所提出的新的特征融合策略,对两种手写体汉字特征进行融合,所抽取的模式的相关特征矩阵,在普通分类器下取得了良好的分类效果,优于已有的特征融合方法及基于单一特征的PCA 方法和FLDA 方法。     

结合EFD与NCut的彩色图像分割方法

为了克服边缘流引导的各向异性扩散(EFD)方法过分割和归一化分割(NCut)方法计算复杂度高的缺点,提出结合EFD和NCut的彩色图像分割方法。首先利用EFD对图像进行预分割,然后将分割区域作为节点构建带权无向图G,用NCut对图进行全局最优化分类,并进行相应后处理,得到最终结果。由于图G是基于过分割区域而非像素点的,所以算法效率得到较大提高。另外,EFD方法可有效利用图像的局部信息,NCut方法则考虑到图像的全局特征,因此文中方法综合两者的优点。实验结果表明,文中方法能够取得较好的分割效果。     

基于改进快速活动轮廓模型的左心室核磁共振图像分割

提出了改进的基于贪婪优化算法的快速活动轮廓模型，原算法加快了求解最优能量曲线的速度，但初始轮廓线必须给定在图像特征的附近。通过在优化的目标函数中增加面积能量项，扩大了算法捕获图像特征的范围，在对贪婪优化算法分析的基础上，给出了局部面积能量项的构造和使用方法，进而简化了优化的目标函数．实验结果表明，该算法具有快速、能在更大的范围内捕获图像的特征、较好地处理图像中凹陷区域的能力，是一种有效的分割左心室MRI图像的算法。