Attention augmented residual autoencoder for efficient polyp segmentation

Colon cancer has been reported to be one of the frequently diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer deaths. Early detection and removal of malicious polyps, which are precursors of colon cancer, can enormously lessen the fatality rate. The detection and segmentation of polyps in colonoscopy is a challenging task even for an experienced colonoscopist, due to divergences in the size, shape, texture, and the close resemblance of polyps with the colon lining. Machine-assisted detection, localization, and segmentation of polyps in the screening procedure can profoundly help the clinicians. Autoencoder-based architectures used in polyp segmentation lack the efficiency in incorporating both local and long-range pixel dependencies. To address the challenges in the automatic segmentation of colon polyps we propose an autoencoder architecture, augmented with a feature attention module in the decoder part. The salient features from RGB colonoscopic images are extracted using the residual skip-connected autoencoder. The decoder attention module joins spatial subspace with feature subspace extracted from the deep residual convolutional neural network and enhances the feature weight for precise segmentation of polyp regions. Extensive experiments on four publicly available polyp datasets demonstrate that the proposed architecture provides very impressive performance in terms of segmentation metrics (Dice scores and Jaccard scores) when compared with the state-of-the-art polyp segmentation approaches.     

Gastrointestinal Tract Infections Classification Using Deep Learning

Automatic gastrointestinal (GI) tract disease recognition is an important application of biomedical image processing. Conventionally, microscopic analysis of pathological tissue is used to detect abnormal areas of the GI tract. The procedure is subjective and results in significant inter-/intra-observer variations in disease detection. Moreover, a huge frame rate in video endoscopy is an overhead for the pathological findings of gastroenterologists to observe every frame with a detailed examination. Consequently, there is a huge demand for a reliable computer-aided diagnostic system (CADx) for diagnosing GI tract diseases. In this work, a CADx was proposed for the diagnosis and classification of GI tract diseases. A novel framework is presented where preprocessing (LAB color space) is performed first; then local binary patterns (LBP) or texture and deep learning (inceptionNet, ResNet50, and VGG-16) features are fused serially to improve the prediction of the abnormalities in the GI tract. Additionally, principal component analysis (PCA), entropy, and minimum redundancy and maximum relevance (mRMR) feature selection methods were analyzed to acquire the optimized characteristics, and various classifiers were trained using the fused features. Open-source color image datasets (KVASIR, NERTHUS, and stomach ULCER) were used for performance evaluation. The study revealed that the subspace discriminant classifier provided an efficient result with 95.02% accuracy on the KVASIR dataset, which proved to be better than the existing state-of-the-art approaches.     

Fire Detection Method Based on Improved Fruit Fly Optimization-Based SVM

Aiming at the defects of the traditional fire detection methods, which are caused by false positives and false negatives in large space buildings, a fire identification detection method based on video images is proposed. The algorithm first uses the hybrid Gaussian background modeling method and the RGB color model to perform fire prejudgment on the video image, which can eliminate most non-fire interferences. Secondly, the traditional regional growth algorithm is improved and the fire image segmentation effect is effectively improved. Then, based on the segmented image, the dynamic and static features of the fire flame are further analyzed and extracted in the area of the suspected fire flame. Finally, the dynamic features of the extracted fire flame images were fused and classified by improved fruit fly optimization support vector machine, and the recognition results were obtained. The video-based fire detection method proposed in this paper greatly improves the accuracy of fire detection and is suitable for fire detection and identification in large space scenarios.     

Automated diagnosis system for age‐related macular degeneration using hybrid features set from fundus images

Impairment to macula can cause loss of central vision. There are various macular disorders that can affect macular region and if not treated at an early stage can cause irreversible central vision loss. Age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) disorder is one of the most threading macular disorder. Bright lesion, drusens presence in macular region is known as the hallmark of AMD disorder. This bright lesion differentiation from other bright lesion like exudates is important for accurate diagnosis of AMD. Focus of this article is automated diagnosis of affected macular region by applying a hybrid features set containing textural, color, and structural/shape features for more accurate detection of AMD at an early stage using fundus images. These features also help to distinguish drusens from exudates. The proposed algorithm at first stage, detect macular region from input fundus image and then perform features extraction based on textural pattern, edge, and structural properties of macular region to classify abnormal macula from normal macula. For classification, we have used support vector machine (SVM), K‐nearest neighbor and neural networks but SVM classifier achieves high accuracy. The proposed algorithm is tested on publicly available STARE and locally available AFIO datasets. Attained sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of our proposed system are 97.5%, 95% and 95.45%, respectively, when applied on STARE dataset. When we have applied our proposed system on AFIO dataset, we have attained sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 93.3%, 92% and 92.34%, respectively.     

基于支持向量机分类策略的多晶硅电池片色差检测

针对复杂颜色和纹理特征条件下,多晶硅电池片上的色差检测问题,提出了一种基于支持向量机分类策略的多晶硅电池片色差检测方法。首先对预处理后电池片图像进行颜色模型转换和通道分离,利用Otsu方法对单通道图像进行阈值分割处理,并计算各阈值图像的区域对比度,然后根据区域对比度情况选择合适的阈值图像,利用阈值图像所提供的信息提取图像特征;最后使用支持向量机分类器来判别电池片是否存在色差缺陷。实验结果表明提出的色差检测算法可以实现多晶硅电池片色差高效检测,色差缺陷检测的准确度、误检率和检测时间分别达到96.88%, 5％和109ms。     

Gastric Tract Disease Recognition Using Optimized Deep Learning Features

Artificial intelligence aids for healthcare have received a great deal of attention. Approximately one million patients with gastrointestinal diseases have been diagnosed via wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE). Early diagnosis facilitates appropriate treatment and saves lives. Deep learning-based techniques have been used to identify gastrointestinal ulcers, bleeding sites, and polyps. However, small lesions may be misclassified. We developed a deep learning-based best-feature method to classify various stomach diseases evident in WCE images. Initially, we use hybrid contrast enhancement to distinguish diseased from normal regions. Then, a pretrained model is fine-tuned, and further training is done via transfer learning. Deep features are extracted from the last two layers and fused using a vector length-based approach. We improve the genetic algorithm using a fitness function and kurtosis to select optimal features that are graded by a classifier. We evaluate a database containing 24,000 WCE images of ulcers, bleeding sites, polyps, and healthy tissue. The cubic support vector machine classifier was optimal; the average accuracy was 99%.     

Median Filtering Forensics Scheme for Color Images Based on Quaternion Magnitude-Phase CNN

In the paper, a convolutional neural network based on quaternion transformation is proposed to detect median filtering for color images. Compared with conventional convolutional neural network, color images can be processed in a holistic manner in the proposed scheme, which makes full use of the correlation between RGB channels. And due to the use of convolutional neural network, it can effectively avoid the one-sidedness of artificial features. Experimental results have shown the scheme’s improvement over the state-of-the-art scheme on the accuracy of color image median filtering detection.     

LPNet: A lightweight CNN with discrete wavelet pooling strategies for colon polyps classification

The traditional process of disease diagnosis from medical images follows a manual process, which is tedious and arduous. A computer-aided diagnosis (CADs) system can work as an assistive tool to improve the diagnosis process. In this pursuit, this article introduces a unique architecture LPNet for classifying colon polyps from the colonoscopy video frames. Colon polyps are abnormal growth of cells in the colon wall. Over time, untreated colon polyps may cause colorectal cancer. Different convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based systems have been developed in recent years. However, CNN uses pooling to reduce the number of parameters and expand the receptive field. On the other hand, pooling results in data loss and is deleterious to subsequent processes. Pooling strategies based on discrete wavelet operations have been proposed in our architecture as a solution to this problem, with the promise of achieving a better trade-off between receptive field size and computing efficiency. The overall performance of this model is superior to the others, according to experimental results on a colonoscopy dataset. LPNet with bio-orthogonal wavelet achieved the highest performance with an accuracy of 93.55%. It outperforms the other state-of-the-art (SOTA) CNN models for the polyps classification task, and it is lightweight in terms of the number of learnable parameters compared with them, making the model easily deployable in edge devices.     

基于多尺度均值排列熵和参数优化支持向量机的轴承故障诊断

针对滚动轴承故障诊断中特征提取困难和模式识别准确率低等问题,提出了一种基于多尺度均值排列熵(MMPE)和灰狼优化支持向量机(GWO-SVM)结合的故障诊断方法。利用MMPE全面表征滚动轴承故障特征信息,选取适当维数特征构成样本数据集,采用GWO-SVM分类器进行故障模式识别。对所提基于MMPE和GWO-SVM故障诊断方法进行理论分析和研究,并利用滚动轴承试验数据进行相应对比试验分析,结果表明:MMPE能够有效提取滚动轴承故障特征信息;GWO-SVM识别准确率和识别速度优于滚动轴承故障诊断其它常用参数优化支持向量机;所提方法能够有效识别滚动轴承故障位置和故障程度,在滚动轴承数据集上取得了98.0%的故障识别准确率,高于基于MPE和GWO-SVM方法的97.0%准确率,并且在噪声背景下取得了93.5%的识别准确率,优于后者83.0%准确率,证明了所提MMPE具有更好的噪声鲁棒性。     

Analysis and classification of malignancy in pancreatic magnetic resonance images using neural network techniques

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is a computerized way of detecting tumors in MR images. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been generally used in the diagnosis and detection of pancreatic tumors. In a medical imaging system, soft tissue contrast and noninvasiveness are clear preferences of MRI. Inaccurate detection of tumor and long time consumption are the disadvantages of MRI. Computerized classifiers can greatly renew the diagnosis activity, in terms of both accuracy and time necessity by normal and abnormal images, automatically. This article presents an intelligent, automatic, accurate, and robust method to classify human pancreas MRI images as normal or abnormal in terms of pancreatic tumor. It represents the response of artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) techniques for pancreatic tumor classification. For this, we extract features from MR images of pancreas using the GLCM method and select the best features using JAFER algorithm. These features are analyzed by five classification techniques: ANN BP, ANN RBF, SVM Linear, SVM Poly, and SVM RBF. We compare the results with benchmark data set of MR brain images. The analytical outcome presents that the two best features used to classify the MR images using ANN BP technique have 98% classification accuracy.     

MRI brain image classification—a hybrid approach

The present article proposes a novel computer‐aided diagnosis (CAD) technique for the classification of the magnetic resonance brain images. The current method adopt color converted hybrid clustering segmentation algorithm with hybrid feature selection approach based on IGSFFS (Information gain and Sequential Forward Floating Search) and Multi‐Class Support Vector Machine (MC‐SVM) classifier technique to segregate the magnetic resonance brain images into three categories namely normal, benign and malignant. The proposed hybrid evolutionary segmentation algorithm which is the combination of WFF(weighted firefly) and K‐means algorithm called WFF‐K‐means and modified cuckoo search (MCS) and K‐means algorithm called MCS‐K‐means, which can find better cluster partition in brain tumor datasets and also overcome local optima problems in K‐means clustering algorithm. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than other algorithms such as PSO‐K‐means, color converted K‐means, FCM and other traditional approaches. The multiple feature set comprises color, texture and shape features derived from the segmented image. These features are then fed into a MC‐SVM classifier with hybrid feature selection algorithm, trained with data labeled by experts, enabling the detection of brain images at high accuracy levels. The performance of the method is evaluated using classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The proposed method provides highest classification accuracy of greater than 98% with high sensitivity and specificity rates of greater than 95% for the proposed diagnostic model and this shows the promise of the approach. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 25, 226–244, 2015     

基于熵-流特征和樽海鞘群优化支持向量机的故障诊断方法

针对旋转机械设备故障特征提取困难的问题,提出一种熵-流特征和樽海鞘群优化支持向量机(salp swarm optimization support vector machine,SSO-SVM)的故障诊断方法。利用改进多尺度加权排列熵(improved multiscale weighted permutation entropy,IMWPE)提取机械设备不同工况下的故障特征;采用监督等度规映射(S-Isomap)流形学习进行降维处理,获取低维的熵-流特征集;将熵-流特征输入至SSO-SVM多故障分类器进行识别与诊断。行星齿轮箱故障诊断实验分析结果表明:IMWPE+S-Isomap熵-流特征提取方法优于现有的多尺度排列熵(multiscale permutation entropy,MPE)、多尺度加权排列熵(multiscale weighted permutation entropy,MWPE)和IMWPE等熵值特征提取方法以及IMWPE+等度规映射(Isomap)和IMWPE+线性局部切空间排列(linear local tangent space alignment,LLTSA)等熵-流特征提取方法;樽海鞘群算法对支持向量机参数寻优效果优于粒子群、灰狼群、人工蜂群和蝙蝠群等算法;所提故障诊断方法识别精度达到100%,能够有效诊断出行星齿轮箱各工况类型。     

Anatomical region segmentation method from dermoscopic images of pigmented skin lesions

Melanoma tumor can cause a serious life threatening problem in humans, if left untreated for a long time without early diagnosis. For early diagnosis of melanoma, it is more significant to develop novel methods based on biophysics analyses, molecular targets recognitions, and new image analysis criteria. In this article, anatomical region segmentation and diameter identification is proposed to detect melanoma from dermoscopic images. Four main steps of the proposed system are as follows: In the first step, the preprocessing is performed to smooth the melanoma extraction process. The region segmentation is done in the second step using watershed segmentation and Sobel operator. In the third step, the postprocessing procedures like as morphological open, canny edge detection also applied to improve the region of interest. Finally, the melanoma region is identified using color symmetry features. The proposed method is tested with two data sets to prove the performance proposed method. The proposed method achieved an accuracy of 95.31% and specificity of 98.3%, which is better than other methods. Experimental results show that the effectiveness of the proposed method and illustrate viability of real-time clinical applications.     

Traffic Sign Detection with Low Complexity for Intelligent Vehicles Based on Hybrid Features

Globally traffic signs are used by all countries for healthier traffic flow and to protect drivers and pedestrians. Consequently, traffic signs have been of great importance for every civilized country, which makes researchers give more focus on the automatic detection of traffic signs. Detecting these traffic signs is challenging due to being in the dark, far away, partially occluded, and affected by the lighting or the presence of similar objects. An innovative traffic sign detection method for red and blue signs in color images is proposed to resolve these issues. This technique aimed to devise an efficient, robust and accurate approach. To attain this, initially, the approach presented a new formula, inspired by existing work, to enhance the image using red and green channels instead of blue, which segmented using a threshold calculated from the correlational property of the image. Next, a new set of features is proposed, motivated by existing features. Texture and color features are fused after getting extracted on the channel of Red, Green, and Blue (RGB), Hue, Saturation, and Value (HSV), and YCbCr color models of images. Later, the set of features is employed on different classification frameworks, from which quadratic support vector machine (SVM) outnumbered the others with an accuracy of 98.5%. The proposed method is tested on German Traffic Sign Detection Benchmark (GTSDB) images. The results are satisfactory when compared to the preceding work.     

基于卷积神经网络模型的遥感图像分类

研究了遥感图像的分类,针对遥感图像的支持向量机(SVM)等浅层结构分类模型特征提取困难、分类精度不理想等问题,设计了一种卷积神经网络(CNN)模型,该模型包含输入层、卷积层、全连接层以及输出层,采用Soft Max分类器进行分类。选取2010年6月6日Landsat TM5富锦市遥感图像为数据源进行了分类实验,实验表明该模型采用多层卷积池化层能够有效地提取非线性、不变的地物特征,有利于图像分类和目标检测。针对所选取的影像,该模型分类精度达到94.57%,比支持向量机分类精度提高了5%,在遥感图像分类中具有更大的优势。     

Digital video steganalysis using motion vector recovery-based features

As a novel digital video steganography, the motion vector (MV)-based steganographic algorithm leverages the MVs as the information carriers to hide the secret messages. The existing steganalyzers based on the statistical characteristics of the spatial/frequency coefficients of the video frames cannot attack the MV-based steganography. In order to detect the presence of information hidden in the MVs of video streams, we design a novel MV recovery algorithm and propose the calibration distance histogram-based statistical features for steganalysis. The support vector machine (SVM) is trained with the proposed features and used as the steganalyzer. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed steganalyzer can effectively detect the presence of hidden messages and outperform others by the significant improvements in detection accuracy even with low embedding rates.     

A novel hybrid artificial neural network technique for the early skin cancer diagnosis using color space conversions of original images

In this study, an innovative hybrid machine learning-technique is used for the early skin cancer diagnosis fusing Convolutional Neural Network and Multilayer Perceptron to analyze images and information related to the skin cancer. This information is extracted manually after applying different color space conversions on the original images for better screening of the lesions. The proposed architecture is compared with standalone architecture in addition to some other techniques by commonly used evaluation metrics. HAM10000 dataset is used for training and testing as this data contain seven different skin lesions. The novelty of the proposed hybrid model is the structure of the network which handles structured data (patients' metadata and other useful features from different color spaces related to the illumination, energy, darkness, etc.) and unstructured data (images). The results show an overall 86%, 95% top-1 and top-2 accuracy respectively, and 96% area under the curve for the seven classes. The study demonstrates the superiority of the proposed hybrid model with a 2% improvement in the accuracy over the standalone model and a promising behavior as compared to the ensemble techniques. The follow-up research will include more patient data to develop a skin cancer detection device.     

基于多尺度特征变换与颜色相关性的商标检索算法

目的 提出一种快速有效的商标注册相似性检查方法,以解决当前基于SIFT的商标检索系统易出现漏检、误检,导致检索精度不高的问题。方法 首先,利用SIFT进行尺度空间创建,并检测商标的特征关键点,通过确定关键点的主方向,可得到具有旋转、缩放、平移、视图变化不变性的图像形状特征描述符。随后,根据像素与其邻域的颜色和空间位置,定义一种改进的颜色相关性,为了有效避免不同商标可能具有相似的颜色特征,对不同的颜色赋予一个权重因子,从而得到一个反映颜色空间相关性与颜色排布疏密度的颜色特征。然后,将SIFT与颜色相关特征向量进行加权组合,并根据实际过程中占主导作用的特征来改变权重。最后,根据加权组合特征,引入马氏距离对查询商标与数据库商标进行相似度量,输出检索商标。结果 实验结果表明,与当前先进的商标检索系统对比,所提算法具有更高的检索准确性与效率。结论 所提算法具有良好的检索准确率与鲁棒性,在商标注册等领域具有一定的实用价值。     

一种基于HVS特性的视频质量评测方法

本文针对视频质量的评测应用,对传统峰值信噪比(PSNR)算法加以改进.通过在视频帧内图像和帧间图像的处理过程中引入人眼视觉系统(HVS)的主要特性,克服传统PSNR算法在序列质量检测应用方面的缺陷.方法在帧内图像处理上利用人眼对边缘轮廓失真具有较强敏感性的特点,设计了基于图像边缘的检测方案以提高对典型空域失真的检测性能;在帧间图像处理上,通过测量帧间时域能量的变化,获得序列在时域轴上的典型特征,并据此对空域检测结果进行修正.通过上述改进,算法能在保持传统PSNR算法简易性的同时,提升其检测结果与主观感受的相关性;同时算法的计算量并不复杂,易于在检测设备中实现系统集成     

基于颜色信息与空间特征的自适应商标检索算法

目的为了增强商标检索技术对商标特征的描述能力,改善其在外来干扰下的检索精度与鲁棒性。方法提出一种基于颜色与空间特征自适应结合的商标检索算法。首先,引入主颜色描述符(DCD),将其作为颜色特征检测器,并在颜色特征提取时嵌入k-均值聚类算子,增强颜色区域,准确提取颜色特征。随后,每个商标被量化为8个显色的最大值,以便提取每个颜色分量中的空间分布信息。然后,通过利用不同的权重来平衡颜色与空间特征的重要性,定义一种基于模糊直方图分析技术,计算每个商标自适应系数,以准确描述彩色商标的图像特征。最后,通过Euclidean距离进行相似度量,输出检索到的商标。结果实验结果表明,与当前商标检索方法相比,所提算法具有更高的检索精度与鲁棒性,呈现出更理想的P-R曲线,在召回率为0.7时,其检索准确率仍可达到90%。结论文中检索方法具有较高的检索精度,在包装商标检测、商标版权保护等领域中具有良好的应用价值。