在线生物文献MRI图像识别系统的设计与实现

为构建在线生物文献核磁共振图像库,通过分析在线医学文献图像的特点,用塔式梯度方向直方图进行图像特征提取,结合图像对应的文本标注,采用基于高斯过程的分类方法设计实现了一个在线生物文献MRI图像识别系统。实验结果表明,该系统比基于单一特征的系统识别率更高,同时比基于标准的SVM和KNN的识别方法性能更好。表明该系统的设计是可行、可靠和有效的。     

Breast cancer diagnosis using genetic programming generated feature

This paper proposes a novel method for breast cancer diagnosis using the feature generated by genetic programming (GP). We developed a new feature extraction measure (modified Fisher linear discriminant analysis (MFLDA)) to overcome the limitation of Fisher criterion. GP as an evolutionary mechanism provides a training structure to generate features. A modified Fisher criterion is developed to help GP optimize features that allow pattern vectors belonging to different categories to distribute compactly and disjoint regions. First, the MFLDA is experimentally compared with some classical feature extraction methods (principal component analysis, Fisher linear discriminant analysis, alternative Fisher linear discriminant analysis). Second, the feature generated by GP based on the modified Fisher criterion is compared with the features generated by GP using Fisher criterion and an alternative Fisher criterion in terms of the classification performance. The classification is carried out by a simple classifier (minimum distance classifier). Finally, the same feature generated by GP is compared with a original feature set as the inputs to multi-layer perceptrons and support vector machine. Results demonstrate the capability of this method to transform information from high-dimensional feature space into one-dimensional space and automatically discover the relationship among data, to improve classification accuracy.     

基于卷积受限玻尔兹曼机的医学图像分类新方法

利用数据挖掘方法对医学图像做分析是目前研究的热点之一,常用的挖掘方法首先需要从医学图像中提取特征,然后进行分类分析。目前,应用最多的是提取图像的统计特征,这种方法对所提取的特征有很强的依赖性。采用一种深度学习的新方法——卷积受限玻尔兹曼机模型,并且采用改进的快速持续对比散度算法对模型进行训练。该方法直接从乳腺X光图像中自主学习特征并利用学习到的特征对图像进行分类。实验结果显示,新方法对医学图像的分类精度相对于已有方法有明显的提升。     

Hyperspectral image classification based on adaptive optimisation of morphological profile and spatial correlation information

ABSTRACT

Hyperspectral image feature extraction generally does not consider the optimisation of structure element types, resulting in the loss of spatial correlation information. To solve this issue, this paper proposes a novel adaptive classification method (MPDTNC-SVM), in which spatial information is extracted by Morphological Profile Filter (MPF) and Domain Transform Normalised Convolution Filter (DTNCF). First, MPF extracts the spatial features on multiple principal component analysis (PCA) components of the hyperspectral image, and DTNCF works over all spectral bands to extract spatially correlated features. The two spatial features are then combined and fed into Support Vector Machine (SVM). Second, a two-step optimisation is implemented in the classification process. Specifically, the best structure of MPF is chosen for classification. Next, the optimal parameters of the structural elements are obtained through iterative classification optimisation, with the best classification performance produced in the process. Experimental results of actual hyperspectral images show that the proposed MPF and DTNCF with SVM (MPDTNC-SVM) method is superior to other classification methods, including Edge-Preserving Filter and Recursive Filter method, morphological feature-based methods, and the SVM methods with raw spectral features, reduced-dimensional and spatial-spectral information.     

高光谱图像小样本分类的卷积神经网络方法

目的 与传统分类方法相比,基于深度学习的高光谱图像分类方法能够提取出高光谱图像更深层次的特征。针对现有深度学习的分类方法网络结构简单、特征提取不够充分的问题,提出一种堆叠像元空间变换信息的数据扩充方法,用于解决训练样本不足的问题,并提出一种基于不同尺度的双通道3维卷积神经网络的高光谱图像分类模型,来提取高光谱图像的本质空谱特征。方法 通过对高光谱图像的每一像元及其邻域像元进行旋转、行列变换等操作,丰富中心像元的潜在空间信息,达到数据集扩充的作用。将扩充之后的像素块输入到不同尺度的双通道3维卷积神经网络学习训练集的深层特征,实现更高精度的分类。结果 5次重复实验后取平均的结果表明,在随机选取了10%训练样本并通过8倍数据扩充的情况下,Indian Pines数据集实现了98.34%的总体分类精度,Pavia University数据集总体分类精度达到99.63%,同时对比了不同算法的运行时间,在保证分类精度的前提下,本文算法的运行时间短于对比算法,保证了分类模型的稳定性、高效性。结论 本文提出的基于双通道卷积神经网络的高光谱图像分类模型,既解决了训练样本不足的问题,又综合了高光谱图像的光谱特征和空间特征,提高了高光谱图像的分类精度。     

基于虹膜纹理深度特征和Fisher向量的人种分类

目的 虹膜是位于人眼表面黑色瞳孔和白色巩膜之间的圆环形区域,有着丰富的纹理信息。虹膜纹理具有高度的区分性和稳定性。人种分类是解决虹膜识别在大规模数据库上应用难题的主要方法之一。现有的虹膜图像人种分类方法主要采用手工设计的特征,而且针对亚洲人和非亚洲人的基本人种分类,无法很好地解决亚种族分类问题。为此提出一种基于虹膜纹理深度特征和Fisher向量的人种分类方法。方法 首先用CNN（convolutional neural network）对归一化后的虹膜纹理图像提取深度特征向量,作为底层特征;然后使用高斯混合模型提取Fisher向量作为最终的虹膜特征表达;最后用支持向量机分类得到最终结果。结果 本文方法在亚洲人和非亚洲人的数据集上采用non-person-disjoint的方式取得99.93%的准确率,采用person-disjoint的方式取得91.94%的准确率;在汉族人和藏族人的数据集上采用non-person-disjoint的方式取得99.69%的准确率,采用person-disjoint的方式取得82.25%的准确率。结论 本文通过数据驱动的方式从训练数据中学习到更适合人种分类的特征,可以很好地实现对基本人种以及亚种族人种的分类,提高了人种分类的精度。同时也首次证明了用虹膜图像进行亚种族分类的可行性,对人种分类理论进行了进一步地丰富和完善。     

选择性卷积特征融合的花卉图像分类

目的 针对花卉图像标注样本缺乏、标注成本高、传统基于深度学习的细粒度图像分类方法无法较好地定位花卉目标区域等问题,提出一种基于选择性深度卷积特征融合的无监督花卉图像分类方法。方法 构建基于选择性深度卷积特征融合的花卉图像分类网络。首先运用保持长宽比的尺寸归一化方法对花卉图像进行预处理,使得图像的尺寸相同,且目标不变形、不丢失图像细节信息;之后运用由ImageNet预训练好的深度卷积神经网络VGG-16模型对预处理的花卉图像进行特征学习,根据特征图的响应值分布选取有效的深度卷积特征,并将多层深度卷积特征进行融合;最后运用softmax分类层进行分类。结果 在Oxford 102 Flowers数据集上做了对比实验,将本文方法与传统的基于深度学习模型的花卉图像分类方法进行对比,本文方法的分类准确率达85.55%,较深度学习模型Xception高27.67%。结论 提出了基于选择性卷积特征融合的花卉图像分类方法,该方法采用无监督的方式定位花卉图像中的显著区域,去除了背景和噪声部分对花卉目标的干扰,提高了花卉图像分类的准确率,适用于处理缺乏带标注的样本时的花卉图像分类问题。     

基于遗传编程的SMT机器视觉检测特征提取

在印刷电路板贴片安装的机器视觉检测中,贴片元件的型号识别和缺陷检测都是基于CCD采集的图像,数据量大、维数太多,该图像特征的提取是正确检测识别的关键技术之一.遗传编程通过遗传优化可以从原始数据或传统的高维特征中提取出更能反映类别本质的有效特征,降低特征维数、减少分类器的计算成本,同时提高分类识别精度.设计基于遗传编程的特征提取方案用于该机器视觉检测,并改进了特征评价指标.对比实验验证了本方案提取的特征分别用于ANN和SVM的良好分类识别效果.     

Liver fibrosis staging using CT image texture analysis and soft computing

Liver biopsy is considered to be the gold standard for analyzing chronic hepatitis and fibrosis; however, it is an invasive and expensive approach, which is also difficult to standardize. Medical imaging techniques such as ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging are non-invasive and helpful methods to interpret liver texture, and may be good alternatives to needle biopsy. Recently, instead of visual inspection of these images, computer-aided image analysis based approaches have become more popular. In this study, a non-invasive, low-cost and relatively accurate method was developed to determine liver fibrosis stage by analyzing some texture features of liver CT images. In this approach, some suitable regions of interests were selected on CT images and a comprehensive set of texture features were obtained from these regions using different methods, such as Gray Level Co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), Laws’ method, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and Gabor filters. Afterwards, sequential floating forward selection and exhaustive search methods were used in various combinations for the selection of most discriminating features. Finally, those selected texture features were classified using two methods, namely, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and k-nearest neighbors (k-NN). The mean classification accuracy in pairwise group comparisons was approximately 95% for both classification methods using only 5 features. Also, performance of our approach in classifying liver fibrosis stage of subjects in the test set into 7 possible stages was investigated. In this case, both SVM and k-NN methods have returned relatively low classification accuracies. Our pairwise group classification results showed that DWT, Gabor, GLCM, and Laws’ texture features were more successful than the others; as such features extracted from these methods were used in the feature fusion process. Fusing features from these better performing families further improved the classification performance. The results show that our approach can be used as a decision support system in especially pairwise fibrosis stage comparisons.     

基于多特征和改进SVM集成的图像分类

现有图像分类方法不能充分利用图像各单一特征之间的优势互补特性,提取的特征中存在大量冗余信息,从而导致图像分类精度不高。为此,提出一种基于多特征和改进支持向量机(SVM)集成的图像分类方法。该方法能提取全面描述图像内容的综合特征,采用主成分分析对所提取的特征进行变换,去除冗余信息,使用支持向量机的集成分类器RBaggSVM进行分类。仿真实验结果表明,与同类图像分类方法相比,该方法具有更高的图像分类精度和更快的分类速度。     

分类与分割相结合的JPEG图像隐写分析

目的 隐写分析研究现状表明,与秘密信息的嵌入过程相比,图像内容和统计特性差异对隐写检测特征分布会造成更大的影响,这导致图像隐写分析成为了一个"相同类内特征分布分散、不同类间特征混淆严重"的分类问题。针对此问题,提出了一种更加有效的JPEG图像隐写检测模型。方法 通过对隐写检测常用的分类器进行分析,从降低隐写检测特征类内离散度的角度入手,将基于图像内容复杂度的预分类和图像分割相结合,根据图像内容复杂度对图像进行分类、分割,然后分别对每一类子图像提取高维富模型隐写检测特征,构建分类器进行训练和测试,并通过加权融合得到最终的检测结果。结果 在实验部分,对具有代表性的隐写检测特征集提取了两类可分性判据,对本文算法的各类别、区域所提取特征的可分性均得到明显提高,证明了模型的有效性。同时在训练、测试图像库匹配和不匹配的情况下,对算法进行了二分类测试,并与其他算法进行了性能比较,本文算法的检测性能均有所提高,性能提升最高接近10%。结论 本文算法能够有效提高隐写检测性能,尤其是在训练、测试图像库统计特性不匹配的情况下,本文算法性能提升更加明显,更适合于实际复杂网络下的应用。     

Log-Gabor小波和分数阶多项式KPCA的火焰图像状态识别

目的 为了进一步提高锅炉燃烧火焰图像状态识别的性能,提出了一种基于Log-Gabor小波和分数阶多项式核主成分分析(KPCA)的火焰图像状态识别方法。方法 首先利用Log-Gabor滤波器组对火焰图像进行滤波,提取滤波后图像的均值和标准差,并构成纹理特征向量。然后使用分数阶KPCA方法对纹理特征向量进行降维,并将降维后的纹理特征向量输入支持向量机进行分类。结果 本文与基于Log-Gabor小波特征提取以及2种基于Gabor小波特征提取的方法相比,本文方法的分类识别正确率更高,分类精度为76%。同时,第1主分量方差比重与核函数参数d之间满足递增关系。本文方法能够准确地提取火焰图像纹理特征。结论 本文提出一种对锅炉燃烧火焰图像进行状态识别的方法,对提取的火焰图像纹理特征向量进行降维并进行分类,可以获得较高的分类精度。实验结果表明,本文方法分类精度较高,运行时间较短,具有良好的实时性。     

提取目标区域词袋特征的图像分类方法

规则网格是视觉词袋模型中常用的图像检测方法,该方法抽取图像所有区块,获得背景区块和目标区块完整的图像信息。事实上,抽取的背景区块信息对类别的判定往往会有一定的混淆作用。以“摩托车”类和“小汽车”类的图像为例,这两类图像背景特征相似,大多都是道路,一般的分类方法很可能将它们分为相同类别。可见,背景信息会干扰图像分类结果。因此,提出一种提取目标区域词袋特征的图像分类方法。利用图像分割去除背景信息提取目标区域;对目标区域构建视觉词袋模型;使用SVM分类器对图像进行分类。PASCAL VOC2006及PASCAL VOC2010数据集上的实验结果表明,提取目标区域词袋特征的图像分类方法具有较好的分类性能。     

Land use classification with textural analysis and the aggregation technique using multi-temporal JERS-1 L-band SAR images

This paper describes a method of improving classification accuracy when using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The classifier used is a maximum likelihood classifier. Texture and textural feature images were made and used for classification. The accuracy of various classification methods was compared. As a result, it was found that the best classification was produced by the aggregation of the classified image when using texture images as additional inputs to the classifier. It is also shown that textural analysis and the aggregation technique are useful in the classification of SAR images.     

面向照片-图形图像的二分类方法

随着科技的发展,图像应用技术日趋重要,许多图像应用技术对照片图像和图形图像的要求和效果是不同的.针对照片图像和图形图像分类的问题,本文提出了一种新的基于二分法的图像分类方法,这种方法混合了颜色、边缘和纹理三种图像特征,通过对图像特征值的K-means聚类分析,实现了照片图像和图形图像的分类.经实验验证,该方法在照片图像和图形图像的分类上取得较好的结果.     

Local image quality measurement for multi-scale forensic palmprints

Numerous studies show that palmprint image quality has a significant effect on every stage of a palmprint recognition system. Although some palmprint image quality measurement(PIQM) methods are proposed, some insufficiency in classification accuracy occurs and attention to detail in measuring local area image quality of multi-scale palmprint images is lacking. On the one hand, the classification accuracy is not very high for 2-class classification and it degrades significantly as the number of classes increases. On the other hand, local area image quality measurement of multi-scale palmprint images has not yet been resolved since the handcrafted features designed through domain knowledge usually works for certain scale image blocks. Meanwhile, the intricate domain knowledge used in the previous methods is difficult for some common users to acquire. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep-learning method of strengthening representation ability that learns more abstract, essential, and reliable features to measure the local image quality for multi-scale forensic palmprints. Popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are considered because of their powerful representation ability in learning complex features. However, the powerful existing CNNs usually have complex architectures with a large amount of parameters, which need the support of high-performance computers. They are not suitable to be used directly for palmprint image quality assignment and the follow-up palmprint recognition work, which prefers real-time response on commonly available personal computers or even mobile devices. Hence, a new lightweight CNN must be designed to achieve a trade-off between high classification accuracy and practical usability. Considering the attributes of under-processed input images, we reduce the weight of the CNN architecture by reducing the amount of some parameters, and finally a lightweight CNN is designed. As a result, a raw rectangular palmprint image of variable size can be put into the trained model directly and a quality label quickly predicted with high accuracy. After comparison with previous methods, results show that the proposed method can deal with un-pre-processed raw images of a multi-scale input size. Furthermore, it can acquire a richer amount of quality classes with a higher accuracy, which are stable on many different datasets. It also leads to finer and more precise full palmprint image quality maps when compared to previous methods.

     

Noise- and compression-robust biological features for texture classification

Texture classification is an important aspect of many digital image processing applications such as surface inspection, content-based image retrieval, and biomedical image analysis. However, noise and compression artifacts in images cause problems for most texture analysis methods. This paper proposes the use of features based on the human visual system for texture classification using a semisupervised, hierarchical approach. The texture feature consists of responses of cells which are found in the visual cortex of higher primates. Classification experiments on different texture libraries indicate that the proposed features obtain a very high classification near 97%. In contrast to other well-established texture analysis methods, the experiments indicate that the proposed features are more robust to various levels of speckle and Gaussian noise. Furthermore, we show that the classification rate of the textures using the presented biologically inspired features is hardly affected by image compression techniques.     

Computer-assisted pit-pattern classification in different wavelet domains for supporting dignity assessment of colonic polyps

In this paper, we show that zoom-endoscopy images can be well classified according to the pit-pattern classification scheme by using texture-analysis methods in different wavelet domains. We base our approach on three different variants of the wavelet transform and propose that the color channels of the RGB and LAB color model are an important source for computing image features with high discriminative power. Color-channel information is incorporated by either using simple feature vector concatenation and cross-cooccurrence matrices in the wavelet domain. Our experimental results based on k-nearest neighbor classification and forward feature selection exemplify the advantages of the different wavelet transforms and show that color-image analysis is superior to grayscale-image analysis regarding our medical image classification problem.     

糖尿病性视网膜图像的深度学习分类方法

目的 糖尿病性视网膜病变（DR）是目前比较严重的一种致盲眼病,因此,对糖尿病性视网膜病理图像的自动分类具有重要的临床应用价值。基于人工分类视网膜图像的方法存在判别性特征提取困难、分类性能差、耗时费力且很难得到客观统一的医疗诊断等问题,为此,提出一种基于卷积神经网络和分类器的视网膜病理图像自动分类系统。方法 首先,结合现有的视网膜图像的特点,对图像进行去噪、数据扩增、归一化等预处理操作;其次,在AlexNet网络的基础上,在网络的每一个卷积层和全连接层前引入一个批归一化层,得到一个网络层次更复杂的深度卷积神经网络BNnet。BNnet网络用于视网膜图像的特征提取网络,对其训练时采用迁移学习的策略利用ILSVRC2012数据集对BNnet网络进行预训练,再将训练得到的模型迁移到视网膜图像上再学习,提取用于视网膜分类的深度特征;最后,将提取的特征输入一个由全连接层组成的深度分类器将视网膜图像分为正常的视网膜图像、轻微病变的视网膜图像、中度病变的视网膜图像等5类。结果 实验结果表明,本文方法的分类准确率可达0.93,优于传统的直接训练方法,且具有较好的鲁棒性和泛化性。结论 本文提出的视网膜病理图像分类框架有效地避免了人工特征提取和图像分类的局限性,同时也解决了样本数据不足而导致的过拟合问题。