The Study of Image Segmentation Based on the Combination of the Wavelet Multi-scale Edge Detection and the Entropy Iterative Threshold Selection

This paper proposes an image segmentation method based on the combination of the wavelet multi-scale edge detection and the entropy iterative threshold selection.Image for segmentation is divided into two parts by high- and low-frequency.In the high-frequency part the wavelet multiscale was used for the edge detection,and the low-frequency part conducted on segmentation using the entropy iterative threshold selection method.Through the consideration of the image edge and region,a CT image of the thorax was chosen to test the proposed method for the segmentation of the lungs.Experimental results show that the method is efficient to segment the interesting region of an image compared with conventional methods.

Convergence Analysis of Iterative Threshold Decoding Process

Today the error correcting codes are present in all the telecom standards, in particular the low density parity check (LDPC) codes. The choice of a good code for a given network is essentially linked to the decoding performance obtained by the bit error rate (BER) curves. This approach requires a significant simulation time proportional to the length of the code, to overcome this problem Exit chart was introduced, as a fast technique to predict the performance of a particular class of codes called Turbo codes. In this paper, we success to apply Exit chart to analyze convergence behavior of iterative threshold decoding of one step majority logic decodable (OSMLD) codes. The iterative decoding process uses a soft-input soft-output threshold decoding algorithm as component decoder. Simulation results for iterative decoding of simple and concatenated codes transmitted over a Gaussian channel have shown that the thresholds obtained are a good indicator of the Bit Error Rate (BER) curves.

An iterative curvelet thresholding algorithm for seismic random noise attenuation

In this paper,we explore the use of iterative curvelet thresholding for seismic random noise attenuation.A new method for combining the curvelet transform with iterative thresholding to suppress random noise is demonstrated and the issue is described as a linear inverse optimal problem using the L1 norm.Random noise suppression in seismic data is transformed into an L1 norm optimization problem based on the curvelet sparsity transform. Compared to the conventional methods such as median filter algorithm,FX deconvolution, and wavelet thresholding,the results of synthetic and field data processing show that the iterative curvelet thresholding proposed in this paper can sufficiently improve signal to noise radio（SNR） and give higher signal fidelity at the same time.Furthermore,to make better use of the curvelet transform such as multiple scales and multiple directions,we control the curvelet direction of the result after iterative curvelet thresholding to further improve the SNR.

Research on Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades Based on Morphology and Improved Otsu Algorithm Using Infrared Images

To address the issues of low accuracy and high false positive rate in traditional Otsu algorithm for defect detection on infrared images of wind turbine blades(WTB),this paper proposes a technique that combines morphological image enhancement with an improved Otsu algorithm.First,mathematical morphology’s differential multi-scale white and black top-hat operations are applied to enhance the image.The algorithm employs entropy as the objective function to guide the iteration process of image enhancement,selecting appropriate structural element scales to execute differential multi-scale white and black top-hat transformations,effectively enhancing the detail features of defect regions and improving the contrast between defects and background.Afterwards,grayscale inversion is performed on the enhanced infrared defect image to better adapt to the improved Otsu algorithm.Finally,by introducing a parameter K to adjust the calculation of inter-class variance in the Otsu method,the weight of the target pixels is increased.Combined with the adaptive iterative threshold algorithm,the threshold selection process is further fine-tuned.Experimental results show that compared to traditional Otsu algorithms and other improvements,the proposed method has significant advantages in terms of defect detection accuracy and reducing false positive rates.The average defect detection rate approaches 1,and the average Hausdorff distance decreases to 0.825,indicating strong robustness and accuracy of the method.

PROJECTED GRADIENT DESCENT BASED ON SOFT THRESHOLDING IN MATRIX COMPLETION

Matrix completion is the extension of compressed sensing.In compressed sensing,we solve the underdetermined equations using sparsity prior of the unknown signals.However,in matrix completion,we solve the underdetermined equations based on sparsity prior in singular values set of the unknown matrix,which also calls low-rank prior of the unknown matrix.This paper firstly introduces basic concept of matrix completion,analyses the matrix suitably used in matrix completion,and shows that such matrix should satisfy two conditions:low rank and incoherence property.Then the paper provides three reconstruction algorithms commonly used in matrix completion:singular value thresholding algorithm,singular value projection,and atomic decomposition for minimum rank approximation,puts forward their shortcoming to know the rank of original matrix.The Projected Gradient Descent based on Soft Thresholding(STPGD),proposed in this paper predicts the rank of unknown matrix using soft thresholding,and iteratives based on projected gradient descent,thus it could estimate the rank of unknown matrix exactly with low computational complexity,this is verified by numerical experiments.We also analyze the convergence and computational complexity of the STPGD algorithm,point out this algorithm is guaranteed to converge,and analyse the number of iterations needed to reach reconstruction error.Compared the computational complexity of the STPGD algorithm to other algorithms,we draw the conclusion that the STPGD algorithm not only reduces the computational complexity,but also improves the precision of the reconstruction solution.

Construction of Protograph LDPC Codes Based on the Convolution Neural Network

This paper presents an intelligent protograph construction algorithm.Protograph LDPC codes have shown excellent error correction performance and play an important role in wireless communications.Random search or manual construction are often used to obtain a good protograph,but the efficiency is not high enough and many experience and skills are needed.In this paper,a fast searching algorithm is proposed using the convolution neural network to predict the iterative decoding thresholds of protograph LDPC codes effectively.A special input data transformation rule is applied to provide stronger generalization ability.The proposed algorithm converges faster than other algorithms.The iterative decoding threshold of the constructed protograph surpasses greedy algorithm and random search by about 0.53 dB and 0.93 dB respectively under 100 times of density evolution.Simulation results show that quasi-cyclic LDPC(QC-LDPC)codes constructed from the proposed algorithm have competitive performance compared to other papers.

Geophysical data sparse reconstruction based on L0-norm minimization

Missing data are a problem in geophysical surveys, and interpolation and reconstruction of missing data is part of the data processing and interpretation. Based on the sparseness of the geophysical data or the transform domain, we can improve the accuracy and stability of the reconstruction by transforming it to a sparse optimization problem. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for the sparse reconstruction of data based on the LO-norm minimization. Furthermore, we discuss two types of the approximation algorithm for the LO- norm minimization according to the size and characteristics of the geophysical data： namely, the iteratively reweighted least-squares algorithm and the fast iterative hard thresholding algorithm. Theoretical and numerical analysis showed that applying the iteratively reweighted least-squares algorithm to the reconstruction of potential field data exploits its fast convergence rate, short calculation time, and high precision, whereas the fast iterative hard thresholding algorithm is more suitable for processing seismic data, moreover, its computational efficiency is better than that of the traditional iterative hard thresholding algorithm.

Huber inversion-based reverse-time migration with de-primary imaging condition and curvelet-domain sparse constraint

Least-squares reverse-time migration(LSRTM) formulates reverse-time migration(RTM) in the leastsquares inversion framework to obtain the optimal reflectivity image. It can generate images with more accurate amplitudes, higher resolution, and fewer artifacts than RTM. However, three problems still exist:(1) inversion can be dominated by strong events in the residual;(2) low-wavenumber artifacts in the gradient affect convergence speed and imaging results;(3) high-wavenumber noise is also amplified as iteration increases. To solve these three problems, we have improved LSRTM: firstly, we use Hubernorm as the objective function to emphasize the weak reflectors during the inversion;secondly, we adapt the de-primary imaging condition to remove the low-wavenumber artifacts above strong reflectors as well as the false high-wavenumber reflectors in the gradient;thirdly, we apply the L1-norm sparse constraint in the curvelet-domain as the regularization term to suppress the high-wavenumber migration noise. As the new inversion objective function contains the non-smooth L1-norm, we use a modified iterative soft thresholding(IST) method to update along the Polak-Ribie re conjugate-gradient direction by using a preconditioned non-linear conjugate-gradient(PNCG) method. The numerical examples,especially the Sigsbee2 A model, demonstrate that the Huber inversion-based RTM can generate highquality images by mitigating migration artifacts and improving the contribution of weak reflection events.

Image reconstruction from few views by l_0-norm optimization

In the medical computer tomography （CT） field, total variation （TV）, which is the l1-norm of the discrete gradient transform （DGT）, is widely used as regularization based on the compressive sensing （CS） theory. To overcome the TV model＇s disadvantageous tendency of uniformly penalizing the image gradient and over smoothing the low-contrast structures, an iterative algorithm based on the l0-norm optimization of the DGT is proposed. In order to rise to the challenges introduced by the l0-norm DGT, the algorithm uses a pseudo-inverse transform of DGT and adapts an iterative hard thresholding （IHT） algorithm, whose convergence and effective efficiency have been theoretically proven. The simulation demonstrates our conclusions and indicates that the algorithm proposed in this paper can obviously improve the reconstruction quality.

A Note on the Complexity of Proximal Iterative Hard Thresholding Algorithm

The iterative hard thresholding(IHT)algorithm is a powerful and efficient algorithm for solving l_(0)-regularized problems and inspired many applications in sparse-approximation and image-processing fields.Recently,some convergence results are established for the proximal scheme of IHT,namely proximal iterative hard thresholding(PIHT)algorithm(Blumensath and Davies,in J Fourier Anal Appl 14:629–654,2008;Hu et al.,Methods 67:294–303,2015;Lu,Math Program 147:125–154,2014;Trzasko et al.,IEEE/SP 14th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing,2007)on solving the related l_(0)-optimization problems.However,the complexity analysis for the PIHT algorithm is not well explored.In this paper,we aim to provide some complexity estimations for the PIHT sequences.In particular,we show that the complexity of the sequential iterate error is at o(1/k).Under the assumption that the objective function is composed of a quadratic convex function and l_(0)regularization,we show that the PIHT algorithm has R-linear convergence rate.Finally,we illustrate some applications of this algorithm for compressive sensing reconstruction and sparse learning and validate the estimated error bounds.

Improved RIP-based bounds for guaranteed performance of two compressed sensing algorithms

Iterative hard thresholding(IHT)and compressive sampling matching pursuit(CoSaMP)are two mainstream compressed sensing algorithms using the hard thresholding operator.The guaranteed performance of the two algorithms for signal recovery was mainly analyzed in terms of the restricted isometry property(RIP)of sensing matrices.At present,the best known bound using the RIP of order 3k for guaranteed performance of IHT(with the unit stepsize)isδ3k<1/√3≈0.5774,and the bound for CoSaMP using the RIP of order 4k isδ4k<0.4782.A fundamental question in this area is whether such theoretical results can be further improved.The purpose of this paper is to affirmatively answer this question and to rigorously show that the abovementioned RIP bound for guaranteed performance of IHT can be significantly improved toδ3k<(√5−1)/2≈0.618,and the bound for CoSaMP can be improved toδ4k<0.5102.

An automated pulmonary parenchyma segmentation method based on an improved region growing algorithm in PET-CT imaging

To address the incomplete problem in pulmonary parenchyma segmentation based on the traditional methods, a novel automated segmentation method based on an eight- neighbor region growing algorithm with left-right scanning and four-corner rotating and scanning is proposed in this pa- per. The proposed method consists of four main stages： image binarization, rough segmentation of lung, image denoising and lung contour refining. First, the binarization of images is done and the regions of interest are extracted. After that, the rough segmentation of lung is performed through a general region growing method. Then the improved eight-neighbor region growing is used to remove noise for the upper, mid- dle, and bottom region of lung. Finally, corrosion and ex- pansion operations are utilized to smooth the lung boundary. The proposed method was validated on chest positron emis- sion tomography-computed tomography （PET-CT） data of 30 cases from a hospital in Shanxi, China. Experimental results show that our method can achieve an average volume overlap ratio of 96.21 ± 0.39% with the manual segmentation results. Compared with the existing methods, the proposed algorithm segments the lung in PET-CT images more efficiently and ac- curately.

Nonconvex Sorted l1 Minimization for Sparse Approximation

The l1 norm is the tight convex relaxation for the l0 norm and has been successfully applied for recovering sparse signals.However,for problems with fewer samples than required for accurate l1 recovery,one needs to apply nonconvex penalties such as lp norm.As one method for solving lp minimization problems,iteratively reweighted l1 minimization updates the weight for each component based on the value of the same component at the previous iteration.It assigns large weights on small components in magnitude and small weights on large components in magnitude.The set of the weights is not fixed,and it makes the analysis of this method difficult.In this paper,we consider a weighted l1 penalty with the set of the weights fixed,and the weights are assigned based on the sort of all the components in magnitude.The smallest weight is assigned to the largest component in magnitude.This new penalty is called nonconvex sorted l1.Then we propose two methods for solving nonconvex sorted l1 minimization problems:iteratively reweighted l1 minimization and iterative sorted thresholding,and prove that both methods will converge to a local minimizer of the nonconvex sorted l1 minimization problems.We also show that both methods are generalizations of iterative support detection and iterative hard thresholding,respectively.The numerical experiments demonstrate the better performance of assigning weights by sort compared to assigning by value.

Low Speed Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on EMD-CIIT Histogram Entropy and KFCM Clustering

In view of weak defect signals and large acoustic emission(AE) data in low speed bearing condition monitoring, we propose a bearing fault diagnosis technique based on a combination of empirical mode decomposition(EMD), clear iterative interval threshold(CIIT) and the kernel-based fuzzy c-means(KFCM) eigenvalue extraction. In this technique, we use EMD-CIIT and EMD to complete the noise removal and to extract the intrinsic mode functions(IMFs). Then we select the first three IMFs and calculate their histogram entropies as the main fault features. These features are used for bearing fault classification using KFCM technique. The result shows that the combined EMD-CIIT and KFCM algorithm can accurately identify various bearing faults based on AE signals acquired from a low speed bearing test rig.