A New Encryption-Then-Compression Scheme on Gray Images Using the Markov Random Field

Compressing encrypted images remains a challenge.As illustrated in our previous work on compression of encrypted binary images,it is preferable to exploit statistical characteristics at the receiver.Through this line,we characterize statistical correlations between adjacent bitplanes of a gray image with the Markov random field(MRF),represent it with a factor graph,and integrate the constructed MRF factor graph in that for binary image reconstruction,which gives rise to a joint factor graph for gray images reconstruction(JFGIR).By exploiting the JFGIR at the receiver to facilitate the reconstruction of the original bitplanes and deriving theoretically the sum-product algorithm(SPA)adapted to the JFGIR,a novel MRF-based encryption-then-compression(ETC)scheme is thus proposed.After preferable universal parameters of the MRF between adjacent bitplanes are sought via a numerical manner,extensive experimental simulations are then carried out to show that the proposed scheme successfully compresses the first 3 and 4 most significant bitplanes(MSBs)for most test gray images and the others with a large portion of smooth area,respectively.Thus,the proposed scheme achieves significant improvement against the state-of-the-art leveraging the 2-D Markov source model at the receiver and is comparable or somewhat inferior to that using the resolution-progressive strategy in recovery.

An advanced segmentation using area and boundary tracing technique in extraction of lungs region

A new method is presented for the segmentation of pulmonary parenchyma. The proposed method is based on the area calculation of different objects in the image. The main purpose of the proposed algorithm is the segment of the lungs images from the computer tomography(CT) images. The original image is binarized using the bit-plane slicing technique and among the different images the best binarized image is chosen. After binarization, the labeling is done and the area of each label is calculated from which the next level of binarized image is obtained. Then, the boundary tracing algorithm is applied to get another level of binarized image. The proposed method is able to extract lung region from the original images. The experimental results show the significance of the proposed method.

Erratum to: An advanced segmentation using area and boundary tracing technique in extraction of lungs region

Erratum to:J.Cent.South Univ.(2014)21:3811-3820DOI:10.1007/s11771-014-2366-9The original version of this article unfortunately contained three mistakes.The mistakes are corrected as follows:1)The spelling of third author is incorrect.The correct name is Jae-Young PYUN.2)The information of corresponding author is incorrect.The correct information should be Goo-Rak KWON,Professor,PhD;Tel/Fax:+98-711-7264102;E-mail:grkwon@chosun.ac.