Automatic Segmentation and Detection System for Varicocele Using Ultrasound Images

The enlarged veins in the pampiniform venous plexus, known as varicocele disease, are typically identified using ultrasound scans. The medical diagnosis of varicocele is based on examinations made in three positions taken to the right and left testicles of the male patient. The proposed system is designed to determine whether a patient is affected. Varicocele is more frequent on the left side of the scrotum than on the right and physicians commonly depend on the supine position more than other positions. Therefore, the experimental results of this study focused on images taken in the supine position of the left testicles of patients. There are two possible vein structures in each image: a cross-section (circular) and a tube (non-circular) structure. This proposed system identifies dilated (varicocele) veins of these structures in ultrasound images in three stages: preprocessing, processing, and detection and measurement. These three stages are applied in three different color modes: Grayscale, Red-Green-Blue (RGB), and Hue, Saturation, and Value (HSV). In the preprocessing stage, the region of interest enclosing the pampiniform plexus area is extracted using a median filter and threshold segmentation. Then, the processing stage employs different filters to perform image denoising. Finally, edge detection is applied in multiple steps and the detected veins are measured to determine if dilated veins exist. Overall implementation results showed the proposed system is faster and more effective than the previous work.     

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.     

一种基于Canny算子与颜色信息的人脸检测算法研究

利用Canny算子提取图像的边界并且对边界信息可以实现大块连通区域的自然分割特点,同时结合皮肤在YCbCr色度空间中的颜色信息,实现在复杂背景下进行人脸自动检测和定位的方法.实验结果表明,该方法具有实时性好,检测和定位精度较高的特点.     

基于高斯混合模型和canny算法的运动目标检测

提出一种基于高斯混合模型和canny算法的运动目标检测算法.利用高斯混合模型计算像素之间的颜色信息,同时利用高斯混合模型更新背景信息;用canny算子提取图像的边缘信息;将颜色信息和区域结构信息线性融合起来,较好地解决了边缘信息明显的运动目标检测.实验中采用改进的加权高斯模型及传统的canny算法相结合.结果表明,本文...     

最优边缘检测算法在智能煤运车辆车道线识别中的应用研究

车道线的识别是智能车辆视觉导航系统的关键技术,目前还没有成熟的理论应用于煤运车辆的视觉导航系统。文章就结构化道路图像中的车道线识别的边缘检测算法进行了比较研究,分析了几种经典算子的原理,提出了改进的双阈值Canny算子,并做了将经典算子和改进的Canny算子用于车道线检测的仿真实验。实验结果表明,Canny算子效果优于其它的经典算子,并提出了车道检测中边缘算子的合理应用方案,为视觉导航应用于智能煤运车辆实现煤运车辆的自主驾驶,提供了可靠的车道线检测技术的理论依据,具有非常重要的研究意义。     

基于OpenCV处理视频图像检测焊缝的研究

提出了一种基于处理视频图像对焊缝进行检测的方法。将视频文件中的原始焊缝图像作为研究目标。采用灰度变换法对原始图像进行预处理,选用Canny算子对焊缝图像进行边缘检测,并运用改进的Hough变换进行线段检测。得到焊缝坡口的中心线以及中心线的中点位置。实现了对焊缝焊点的检测。实验证明。该方法实现成本低。实时性强,精确度较高。智能性强。     

一种结合小波变换和维纳滤波的图像去噪算法

目的为了有效消除噪声图像中的椒盐噪声、高斯噪声甚至混合噪声,结合维纳滤波的优势和小波分解各分量的特点,提出一种新的图像去噪算法。方法该算法先将含噪声图像进行小波变换,分离出1个低频分量和3个中高频分量,然后对低频分量进行自适应维纳滤波,对3个中高频分量用Canny算子提取边缘,最后将处理后的4个分量进行重构得到去噪后的图像。结果仿真结果表明,该算法对扫描仪引入的常见噪声均表现出较好的去噪效果,PSNR值均大于20 d B。尤其是对于高斯噪声和混合噪声,新算法去噪后的PSNR结果高于维纳滤波、软阈值小波滤波和文献[9]算法1~8 d B,效果较好。结论结合小波变换和维纳滤波的图像去噪算法,能够较好去除噪声图像的多种类型噪声,是一种较为优秀的去噪算法。     

基于Canny算子的白酒显微图像边缘提取

文章提出了一种改进的Canny算子和数学形态学相结合的白酒显微图像边缘检测方法。首先采用二维高斯函数的一阶偏导数同时构造x和y方向滤波器计算梯度幅值,然后通过四阈值边缘检测方法进行边缘定位,最后引入了数学形态学对边缘进行融合。实验仿真表明,该方法对酒分子结构边缘检测精度较准、抗噪性能良好,能有效的克服图像边缘模糊与断点,提高了边缘的连续性。     

基于Canny算子和数学形态学的细胞边缘检测方法

提出了一种基于Canny算子和数学形态学的肉类细胞图像的边缘提取方法．制作了猪肉自然放置过程中各个时段的切片样本,先用Canny算子对0小时切片图像进行细胞边缘的提取,再根据数学形态学方法采用结构元素探针进行膨胀运算,对断裂的边缘和细胞内的孔隙进行填充,然后进行平滑处理．实验结果表明,该方法优于单纯基于微分算子的Canny算子边缘检测方法,为细胞切片图像的特征提取、识别等相关研究奠定了较好的基础．     

基于图像分析的后视镜失真率自动检测方法

传统的机动车后视镜失真率检测方法采用模拟相机拍照、照片冲洗、人工测量等步骤,效率低下且人为因素对测量结果影响较大。本文使用数字相机成像,针对数字图像,设计并实现了基于图像分析的失真率自动检测算法,通过圆心检测、图像分割、直线与圆交点检测等几个步骤,完成了自动检测功能。该方法高效、准确,达到了实用水平。