A methodology for alignment of an X-ray image and a CT image, based on the Chamfer 3-4 distance transform and simulated annealing optimization algorithm is presented. Firstly, an initial transformation matrix is const...A methodology for alignment of an X-ray image and a CT image, based on the Chamfer 3-4 distance transform and simulated annealing optimization algorithm is presented. Firstly, an initial transformation matrix is constructed. For the convenience of computing, geometric models of the X-ray device to reconstruct the calibration matrix are used. Then, by defining the distance between the 3-D protective and the 2-D object image, we optimize this distance matching problem, using the simulated annealing algorithm. This method is also integrated into medical intra-operation, dealing with the data set acquired from 3-D image workstation and active navigation.展开更多
Recent changes occurred in terminus of the debris-covered Bilafond Glacier in the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas, Northern Pakistan was investigated in this research. Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+ images were used for th...Recent changes occurred in terminus of the debris-covered Bilafond Glacier in the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas, Northern Pakistan was investigated in this research. Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+ images were used for this study. Digital elevation models derived from ASTER GDEM and SRTM were also utilized. Visible, infrared and thermal infrared channels were utilized in order to get accurate glacier change maps. Three methods were tried to map this debris-covered glacier in this research. The glacier has been mapped successfully and the changes in the glacier terminus from 1978 to 2011 have been calculated. Manual, semi-automatic and thermal methods were found to give similar results. It was found that the glacier has undergone serious ablation during this period despite of the fact that many of the larger glaciers in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain regions in the Upper Indus Basin were reported to be expanding. The terminus has been moved back about 600 meters during this period and there was an abrupt change in the glacier terminus during 1990-2002. We propose that debris thickness is not the only factor that influences the glacier ablation but the altitude of the debris-covered glacier as well. Many glaciers in the Karakoram region reported to be expanding were having higher altitudes compared to the study area.展开更多
Peroral cholangioscopy was first described in 1970s and has recently gained popularity.Peroral cholangioscopy is appealing to therapeutic endoscopists because a direct intraluminal view of the biliary duct system offe...Peroral cholangioscopy was first described in 1970s and has recently gained popularity.Peroral cholangioscopy is appealing to therapeutic endoscopists because a direct intraluminal view of the biliary duct system offers possibilities for diagnosis and interventions beyond that which other imaging or endoscopic modalities can provide.As the image quality of cholangioscopies improves,so too does their diagnostic capability,and as their durability and maneuverability increases,so too does their potential use for therapeutic applications.This editorial is intended to provide a brief review of recent developments in peroral cholangioscopy and current indications for its use.展开更多
The coastline changes along Yemen's the Red Sea (Al-muka, Al-khohah, Al-tiaf, Ras Katib and Al- Urji spits) were studied using a series of landsat images (MSS, TM and ETM + , 1972, 1989, 2000, 2006), coupled wit...The coastline changes along Yemen's the Red Sea (Al-muka, Al-khohah, Al-tiaf, Ras Katib and Al- Urji spits) were studied using a series of landsat images (MSS, TM and ETM + , 1972, 1989, 2000, 2006), coupled with geomorphological, sedimentological and meteorological findings. Comparison of satellite images provided a viable means for establishing long-term coastal changes (accretion and erosion) as observed in the studied spits (Al-Urj, Ras Sham, Ras Maemoon, Ras Katib, Al-Mandar, Nukhaylah, Mujamilah, Ras Ashab Abu-Zahr and Mukha). The rate of the spit accretion has the greatest value up to 89 pixel/year corresponding to 72 290 m2/year in Mukha, while the spit erosion shows greatest value up to 131 pixel/year corresponding to 106 404 m2/year in Mujamilab. The patterns of accretion and erosion along the spits depend on the spit direction, natural processes mainly of wave-induced longshore currents, the sediments supply and depth of sea.展开更多
A lossless digital watermarking scheme,which was zero- perturbation on the content and graphics for the digital image maps,is proposed.During the simulation,the scheme has been utilized to model the copyright protecti...A lossless digital watermarking scheme,which was zero- perturbation on the content and graphics for the digital image maps,is proposed.During the simulation,the scheme has been utilized to model the copyright protection program as a commerce application.Compared to the traditional digital watermarking schemes,our scheme operates in redundancy areas of maps and is scalable to topology changes.Experimental results show that,with respect to the geometric attacks and image transformed,the performance of our scheme is better than the classical algorithms based space or frequency domain with much lower complexity..展开更多
Automatic extraction features and buildings in particular from digital images is one of the most complex and challenging task faced by computer vision and photogrammetric communities. Extracted buildings are required ...Automatic extraction features and buildings in particular from digital images is one of the most complex and challenging task faced by computer vision and photogrammetric communities. Extracted buildings are required for varieties of applications including urban planning, creation of GIS databases and development of urban city models for taxation. For decades, extraction of features has been done by photogrammetric methods using stereo plotters and digital work stations. Photogrammetric methods are tedious, manually operated and require well-trained personnel. In recent years, there has been emergence of high-resolution space borne images, which have disclosed a large number of new opportunities for medium and large-scale topographic mapping. In this paper, a semi-automatic method is introduced to extract buildings in planned and informal settlements in urban areas from high resolution imagery. The proposed method uses modified snakes model and radial casting algorithm to initialize snakes contours and refinement of building outlines. The extraction rate is 91 percent as demonstrated by examples over selected test areas. The potential, limitations and future work is discussed.展开更多
Cutting-edge technologies in optical molecular imaging have ushered in new frontiers in cancer research, clinical translation, and medical practice, as evidenced by recent advances in optical multimodality imaging, Ce...Cutting-edge technologies in optical molecular imaging have ushered in new frontiers in cancer research, clinical translation, and medical practice, as evidenced by recent advances in optical multimodality imaging, Cerenkov luminescence imaging(CLI), and optical imageguided surgeries. New abilities allow in vivo cancer imaging with sensitivity and accuracy that are unprecedented in conventional imaging approaches. The visualization of cellular and molecular behaviors and events within tumors in living subjects is improving our deeper understanding of tumors at a systems level. These advances are being rapidly used to acquire tumor-to-tumor molecular heterogeneity, both dynamically and quantitatively, as well as to achieve more effective therapeutic interventions with the assistance of real-time imaging. In the era of molecular imaging, optical technologies hold great promise to facilitate the development of highly sensitive cancer diagnoses as well as personalized patient treatment—one of the ultimate goals of precision medicine.展开更多
New LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and sonar imagery have revealed remarkable geomorphic details never seen before and not visible by any other means. Numerous faults and other geologic structures are plainly v...New LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and sonar imagery have revealed remarkable geomorphic details never seen before and not visible by any other means. Numerous faults and other geologic structures are plainly visible on LIDAR and sonar images. Many previously unknown faults criss-cross the islands and large fault scarps are visible on sonar imagery along the margins of the larger islands. Sonar images of sea floor morphology show many submerged faults as long linear scarps with relief up to 300m (1,000 fl), some of which visibly truncate geologic structures. The San Juan Lopez fault, the largest fault in the islands, extends for at least 65 km (40 mi) from Stuart Island to Rosario strait with a scarp up to 330m (1,000 it) high. Since 1975, the basic structural framework of the San Juan Islands has been considered to consist of five stacked thrust faults, the Rosario, Orcas, Haro, Lopez, and Buck Bay faults, constituting the San Juan Thrust (Nappe) System that has shuffled together far distant terranes. However, the new LIDAR and sonar imagery shows that most of the mapped extent of these postulated faults are actually segments of high angle, dipslip faults and are not thrust faults at all. Thus, the San Juan Thrust (Nappe) System does not exist. The age of these faults is not accurately known and more than one period of high angle faulting may have occurred. Faults shown on L1DAR images of the surface of the islands appear as visible gashes, etched out by erosion of fault zones with few fault scarps. However, the sea floor faults have bold relief and high scarps. A late Pleistocene moraine lies undisturbed across the San Juan Lopez fault.展开更多
Objective To analyze the clinical and ultrasonographic imaging features of intraductal papillary mutinous neoplasm (1PMN) of the pancreas. Methods Twelve patients with IPMN underwent surgery between May 2005 and De...Objective To analyze the clinical and ultrasonographic imaging features of intraductal papillary mutinous neoplasm (1PMN) of the pancreas. Methods Twelve patients with IPMN underwent surgery between May 2005 and December 2008, including 4 (33.3%) with adenoma and 8 (66.7%) with adenocarcinoma. IPMN was classified preoperatively into 3 types based on sonographic findings of different sites: main duct, branch duct, and combined type. All clinical presentations and ultrasonographic findings of those paticnts were reviewed and the correlation be- tween ultrasonographic hndings and histopathological results was analyzed. Results There were 9 men and 3 women with a mean age of 60.1±9.6 years (range, 32-73). OF all the 12 patients with IPMN, 9 (75.0%) had experienced some symptoms of epigastric discomfort and/or pain as cell as backache; 7 cases were with medical history of acute pancreatitis, 5 cases with diabetes, 4 cases with elevated CA19-9, and 2 cases with steatorrhea. All lesions of IPMN have been revealed by transabdominal ul- trasonography. The mean diameters of the lesions were 1.4±0.8 cm (range, 0.5-2.0) and 6.3±6.0 cm (range, 2.0-20.0) in adenomas and adenocarcinomas, respectively. And the mean diameters of the main duct in adelnomas and adenocarcinomas were 1.0±0.8 cm and 1.6±1.0 cm, respectively. Among the 4 adnomas, 3 (75.0%) cases were classified as branch type based on sonographic findings, and 2 were demonstrated as mural nodules in which no color signals was detected. Among the 8 adenocarcinomas, 5 (62.5%) cases were classifled as main duct type, and 3 (37.5%) as combined type. In 7 of the 8 adcnocarcinomas, mural nodules were detected within the dilated ducts or cysts of the lesions in which color flow signals were detected. Conclusions Transabdominal ultrasonography can reveal the pancreatic cystic lesions of IPMN as well as dilated pancreatic: ducts. Some characteristics should be noticed as suggesting the possibility of malignancy: clinical symptoms of pancreatic insufficiency, large tumor size, and mural nodules with color Doppler flow signals. Transabdominal ultrasonography could be a useful tool to help diagnose and make appropriate management of IPMN.展开更多
Existing pen and ink sketch technologies can be applied to general images, but they could not produce optimal output for images of traditional architecture, because most images consist of exquisite straight lined patt...Existing pen and ink sketch technologies can be applied to general images, but they could not produce optimal output for images of traditional architecture, because most images consist of exquisite straight lined patterns in traditional architecture, such as root tiles and window bars. The lines of roofs and eaves need to be described delicately to express pen and ink sketch most effectively. Therefore, by proposing a method to create white noise for light and shade of input images, to extract input vector directions from the white noise, and to determine the direction and length of stroke, a new expression technique is proposed for pen and ink sketch that could best reflect the characteristics of traditional architecture.展开更多
In general, to reconstruct the accurate shape of buildings, we need at least one stereomodel (two photographs) for each building. In most cases, however, only a single non-metric photograph is available, which is us...In general, to reconstruct the accurate shape of buildings, we need at least one stereomodel (two photographs) for each building. In most cases, however, only a single non-metric photograph is available, which is usually obtained either by an amateur, such as a tourist, or from a newspaper or a post card. To evaluate the validity of 3D reconstruction from a single non-metric image, this study analyzes the effects of object depth on the accuracy of dimensional shape in X and Y directions using a single non-metric image by means of simulation technique, as this was considered to be, in most cases, a main source of data acquisition in recording and documenting buildings.展开更多
Audio visual style has a complex multi-functionality and the important part of this deals with the way that the character body is visualized and how body language is implemented in the moving image. With a number of e...Audio visual style has a complex multi-functionality and the important part of this deals with the way that the character body is visualized and how body language is implemented in the moving image. With a number of examples of contemporary film and television, the article will line up of key issues of body language in the moving image. This article describes two important aspects of body language in visual media--how visual style mediates the body expressions of fictional character and real persons in news on television and how aspects of the visual style always represent bodily presence in the moving image.展开更多
Identification and classification, as well as mapping of marine habitats, are of primary importance to plan management activities, especially in disturbed ecosystems like the ones in the marine areas of Bahrain. Remot...Identification and classification, as well as mapping of marine habitats, are of primary importance to plan management activities, especially in disturbed ecosystems like the ones in the marine areas of Bahrain. Remotely sensed Landsat-8 imagery coupled with field survey was used to identify, classify and map the benthic habitats in Bahrain marine area. The used geospatial techniques include advanced image processing procedures, which comprise of radiometric and atmospheric corrections, sun glint removal, water depth correction and image classification. Extensive ground-truthing analyses through in-situ field surveys by a team of scuba divers were conducted in October 2014 and June 2015 to inform and refine the classifications. The variables collected from this survey included physical and chemical characteristics of the water, habitat type, substrata, fauna and flora. A total of 176 field points were collected and utilized to perform an accurate assessment of the image classification. Initial habitat classification resulted in 20 habitat categories. However, due to the inability of the Landsat-8 sensors to accurately discriminate that level of classification, categories were merged into seven classes. The derived map shows that the benthic marine habitats of Bahrain consist of deep water (2,523 km2), rock (1,738 km2), sand (1,191 km2), deep water/sand (1,006 km2), algae (922 km2), seagrass (591 km2) and corals (275.50 km2). Although limited by the spatial and spectral resolutions of Landsat 8, the used methods produced a suitable map of the benthic habitats within the marine area of Bahrain with an overall accuracy of 84.1%. The use of very high spatial resolution satellite imagery will most likely increase such accuracy significantly.展开更多
According to the remote sensing image characteristics, a set oi optimized compression quahty assessment methods is proposed on the basis of generating simulative images. Firstly, a means is put forward that generates ...According to the remote sensing image characteristics, a set oi optimized compression quahty assessment methods is proposed on the basis of generating simulative images. Firstly, a means is put forward that generates simulative images by scanning aerial films taking into account the space-borne remote sensing camera characteristics (including pixel resolution, histogram dynamic range and quantization). In the course of compression quality assessment, the objective assessment considers images texture changes and mutual relationship between simulative images and decompressed ima- ges, while the synthesized estimation factor (SEF) is brought out innovatively for the first time. Subjective assessment adopts a display setup -- 0.5mrn/pixel, which considers human visual char- acteristic and mainstream monitor. The set of methods are applied in compression plan design of panchromatic camera loaded on ZY-1-02C satellite. Through systematic and comprehensive assess- ment, simulation results show that image compression quality with the compression ratio of d:l can meet the remote sensing application requirements.展开更多
With rapid development of remote sensing technology, the resolution of remote sensing images is increasingly improved; then people can extract more useful data and information from these images. Thus, an important inf...With rapid development of remote sensing technology, the resolution of remote sensing images is increasingly improved; then people can extract more useful data and information from these images. Thus, an important information extraction method from remote sensing images - image classification, becomes more and more important. Based on phenopthase and band composition characteristics, this paper firstly discusses the important role of background parameters in remote sensing images classification; then based on geographical infomation system technology, the computerized automatic classification to high-medium-low-yield croplands in Dingxiang County of Shanxi Province in rotate sensing images has been carried out by using eompound layers classification method of multi-thematic information; compared the classification result to the visual interpretation results, the accuracy increases from 70% to above 90%.展开更多
In order to fast transmission and processing of medical images and do not need to install client and plug-ins, the paper designed a kind of medical image reading system based on BS structure. This system improved the ...In order to fast transmission and processing of medical images and do not need to install client and plug-ins, the paper designed a kind of medical image reading system based on BS structure. This system improved the existing IWEB in the framework of PACS client image processing, medical image based on the service WEB completion port model. To realize the fast loading images with high concurrency, compared with the traditional WEB PACS, this system has the advantages of no client without plug-in installation, at the same time in the transmission and processing performance image has been greatly improved.展开更多
In this paper, the authors present ConGrap, a novel contour detector for finding closed contours with semantic connections. Based on gradient-based edge detection, a Gradient Map is generated to store the orientation ...In this paper, the authors present ConGrap, a novel contour detector for finding closed contours with semantic connections. Based on gradient-based edge detection, a Gradient Map is generated to store the orientation of every edge pixel. Using the edge image and the generated Gradient Map, ConGrap separates the image into semantic parts and objects. Each edge pixel is mapped to a contour by a three-stage hierarchical analysis of neighbored pixels and ensures the closing of contours. A final post-process of ConGrap extracts the contour borderlines and merges them, if they semantically relate to each other. In contrast to common edge and contour detections, ConGrap not only produces an edge image, but also provides additional information (e.g., the borderline pixel coordinates the bounding box, etc.) for every contour. Additionally, the resulting contour image provides closed contours without discontinuities and merged regions with semantic connections. Consequently, the ConGrap contour image can be seen as an enhanced edge image as well as a kind of segmentation and object recognition.展开更多
OBJECTIVE To investigate the images characteristics of primary malignant intracranial lymphoma. METHODS Retrospective study was conducted on CT/MRI imaging characteristics of 9 cases with primary malignant intracrania...OBJECTIVE To investigate the images characteristics of primary malignant intracranial lymphoma. METHODS Retrospective study was conducted on CT/MRI imaging characteristics of 9 cases with primary malignant intracranial lymphoma. RESULTS The patients had lesions mostly in the supratentorial region, including the parts of deep white matter, para-ependymal regions, and corpus callosum. The shapes of the lesions were round or irregular. CT scan showed equal or slightly high density of the tumor images, compared with the normal tissue in the brain. The TIWI of MRI scan on the tumor showed low signal and the T2WI showed equal or slightly high signal. The MRI signals were homogenous. Cystic lesion, calcification, and hemorrhage were rarely seen in MRI. Edema around tumor and its occupational effect was lessened. Edema around tumor shown in MRI was not in accordance with the true volume of the tumor mass. Enhanced scan on the lesions showed homogenous enhancement, and the pia mater invaded and/or the spread along ependyma. CONCLUSION Images of primary malignant intracranial lymphoma have specific characteristics that are useful in its diagnosis and differential diagnosis.展开更多
This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze's two books on cinema, the di...This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze's two books on cinema, the discussion of images demonstrates the entangled juxtaposition of the three levels: brain-thought, cinema-screen, and world-images that compose the cinematic consciousness. Through the interacted movement-images and time-images, the film unfolds the storyline within the aesthetic pleasure of poetic sentiment that gradually leads the audience to learn that a wandering boy, Hsiao-Hsiang, after the death of his father, has had several adventurous encounters that gradually expose the secrecy of his traumatic family: His birth mother has no decent job and his step-father has killed his own brother. This broken family has been haunted by the shared guilt and the undead memory as Derrida famously claims that hauntology precedes ontology. As the past coexists with the present, Deleuze analyzes the concept of I, with a central fracture in its pure form of the past demonstrating an ontological enigma that remains forever a secret. When the director uses the four portraits to indicate the four important events of this wandering boy, he deliberately leaves empty the fourth portrait, the self-portrait of the boy; it remains as an incomplete piece which symbolizes an enigma of his own life. It shows certain constitutive unnamable forces acting within the boy that seduces him forever to painfully misrecognize himself.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China (60272045) the Key Project of Ministry of Education of China.
文摘A methodology for alignment of an X-ray image and a CT image, based on the Chamfer 3-4 distance transform and simulated annealing optimization algorithm is presented. Firstly, an initial transformation matrix is constructed. For the convenience of computing, geometric models of the X-ray device to reconstruct the calibration matrix are used. Then, by defining the distance between the 3-D protective and the 2-D object image, we optimize this distance matching problem, using the simulated annealing algorithm. This method is also integrated into medical intra-operation, dealing with the data set acquired from 3-D image workstation and active navigation.
基金Rio Grande do Sul State Foundation for Research (FAPERGS), Brazil for financial support
文摘Recent changes occurred in terminus of the debris-covered Bilafond Glacier in the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas, Northern Pakistan was investigated in this research. Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+ images were used for this study. Digital elevation models derived from ASTER GDEM and SRTM were also utilized. Visible, infrared and thermal infrared channels were utilized in order to get accurate glacier change maps. Three methods were tried to map this debris-covered glacier in this research. The glacier has been mapped successfully and the changes in the glacier terminus from 1978 to 2011 have been calculated. Manual, semi-automatic and thermal methods were found to give similar results. It was found that the glacier has undergone serious ablation during this period despite of the fact that many of the larger glaciers in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain regions in the Upper Indus Basin were reported to be expanding. The terminus has been moved back about 600 meters during this period and there was an abrupt change in the glacier terminus during 1990-2002. We propose that debris thickness is not the only factor that influences the glacier ablation but the altitude of the debris-covered glacier as well. Many glaciers in the Karakoram region reported to be expanding were having higher altitudes compared to the study area.
文摘Peroral cholangioscopy was first described in 1970s and has recently gained popularity.Peroral cholangioscopy is appealing to therapeutic endoscopists because a direct intraluminal view of the biliary duct system offers possibilities for diagnosis and interventions beyond that which other imaging or endoscopic modalities can provide.As the image quality of cholangioscopies improves,so too does their diagnostic capability,and as their durability and maneuverability increases,so too does their potential use for therapeutic applications.This editorial is intended to provide a brief review of recent developments in peroral cholangioscopy and current indications for its use.
文摘The coastline changes along Yemen's the Red Sea (Al-muka, Al-khohah, Al-tiaf, Ras Katib and Al- Urji spits) were studied using a series of landsat images (MSS, TM and ETM + , 1972, 1989, 2000, 2006), coupled with geomorphological, sedimentological and meteorological findings. Comparison of satellite images provided a viable means for establishing long-term coastal changes (accretion and erosion) as observed in the studied spits (Al-Urj, Ras Sham, Ras Maemoon, Ras Katib, Al-Mandar, Nukhaylah, Mujamilah, Ras Ashab Abu-Zahr and Mukha). The rate of the spit accretion has the greatest value up to 89 pixel/year corresponding to 72 290 m2/year in Mukha, while the spit erosion shows greatest value up to 131 pixel/year corresponding to 106 404 m2/year in Mujamilab. The patterns of accretion and erosion along the spits depend on the spit direction, natural processes mainly of wave-induced longshore currents, the sediments supply and depth of sea.
基金supported in part by National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant No.61202455Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.HEUCF100612Research Funds for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No.20112304120025
文摘A lossless digital watermarking scheme,which was zero- perturbation on the content and graphics for the digital image maps,is proposed.During the simulation,the scheme has been utilized to model the copyright protection program as a commerce application.Compared to the traditional digital watermarking schemes,our scheme operates in redundancy areas of maps and is scalable to topology changes.Experimental results show that,with respect to the geometric attacks and image transformed,the performance of our scheme is better than the classical algorithms based space or frequency domain with much lower complexity..
文摘Automatic extraction features and buildings in particular from digital images is one of the most complex and challenging task faced by computer vision and photogrammetric communities. Extracted buildings are required for varieties of applications including urban planning, creation of GIS databases and development of urban city models for taxation. For decades, extraction of features has been done by photogrammetric methods using stereo plotters and digital work stations. Photogrammetric methods are tedious, manually operated and require well-trained personnel. In recent years, there has been emergence of high-resolution space borne images, which have disclosed a large number of new opportunities for medium and large-scale topographic mapping. In this paper, a semi-automatic method is introduced to extract buildings in planned and informal settlements in urban areas from high resolution imagery. The proposed method uses modified snakes model and radial casting algorithm to initialize snakes contours and refinement of building outlines. The extraction rate is 91 percent as demonstrated by examples over selected test areas. The potential, limitations and future work is discussed.
文摘Cutting-edge technologies in optical molecular imaging have ushered in new frontiers in cancer research, clinical translation, and medical practice, as evidenced by recent advances in optical multimodality imaging, Cerenkov luminescence imaging(CLI), and optical imageguided surgeries. New abilities allow in vivo cancer imaging with sensitivity and accuracy that are unprecedented in conventional imaging approaches. The visualization of cellular and molecular behaviors and events within tumors in living subjects is improving our deeper understanding of tumors at a systems level. These advances are being rapidly used to acquire tumor-to-tumor molecular heterogeneity, both dynamically and quantitatively, as well as to achieve more effective therapeutic interventions with the assistance of real-time imaging. In the era of molecular imaging, optical technologies hold great promise to facilitate the development of highly sensitive cancer diagnoses as well as personalized patient treatment—one of the ultimate goals of precision medicine.
文摘New LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and sonar imagery have revealed remarkable geomorphic details never seen before and not visible by any other means. Numerous faults and other geologic structures are plainly visible on LIDAR and sonar images. Many previously unknown faults criss-cross the islands and large fault scarps are visible on sonar imagery along the margins of the larger islands. Sonar images of sea floor morphology show many submerged faults as long linear scarps with relief up to 300m (1,000 fl), some of which visibly truncate geologic structures. The San Juan Lopez fault, the largest fault in the islands, extends for at least 65 km (40 mi) from Stuart Island to Rosario strait with a scarp up to 330m (1,000 it) high. Since 1975, the basic structural framework of the San Juan Islands has been considered to consist of five stacked thrust faults, the Rosario, Orcas, Haro, Lopez, and Buck Bay faults, constituting the San Juan Thrust (Nappe) System that has shuffled together far distant terranes. However, the new LIDAR and sonar imagery shows that most of the mapped extent of these postulated faults are actually segments of high angle, dipslip faults and are not thrust faults at all. Thus, the San Juan Thrust (Nappe) System does not exist. The age of these faults is not accurately known and more than one period of high angle faulting may have occurred. Faults shown on L1DAR images of the surface of the islands appear as visible gashes, etched out by erosion of fault zones with few fault scarps. However, the sea floor faults have bold relief and high scarps. A late Pleistocene moraine lies undisturbed across the San Juan Lopez fault.
文摘Objective To analyze the clinical and ultrasonographic imaging features of intraductal papillary mutinous neoplasm (1PMN) of the pancreas. Methods Twelve patients with IPMN underwent surgery between May 2005 and December 2008, including 4 (33.3%) with adenoma and 8 (66.7%) with adenocarcinoma. IPMN was classified preoperatively into 3 types based on sonographic findings of different sites: main duct, branch duct, and combined type. All clinical presentations and ultrasonographic findings of those paticnts were reviewed and the correlation be- tween ultrasonographic hndings and histopathological results was analyzed. Results There were 9 men and 3 women with a mean age of 60.1±9.6 years (range, 32-73). OF all the 12 patients with IPMN, 9 (75.0%) had experienced some symptoms of epigastric discomfort and/or pain as cell as backache; 7 cases were with medical history of acute pancreatitis, 5 cases with diabetes, 4 cases with elevated CA19-9, and 2 cases with steatorrhea. All lesions of IPMN have been revealed by transabdominal ul- trasonography. The mean diameters of the lesions were 1.4±0.8 cm (range, 0.5-2.0) and 6.3±6.0 cm (range, 2.0-20.0) in adenomas and adenocarcinomas, respectively. And the mean diameters of the main duct in adelnomas and adenocarcinomas were 1.0±0.8 cm and 1.6±1.0 cm, respectively. Among the 4 adnomas, 3 (75.0%) cases were classified as branch type based on sonographic findings, and 2 were demonstrated as mural nodules in which no color signals was detected. Among the 8 adenocarcinomas, 5 (62.5%) cases were classifled as main duct type, and 3 (37.5%) as combined type. In 7 of the 8 adcnocarcinomas, mural nodules were detected within the dilated ducts or cysts of the lesions in which color flow signals were detected. Conclusions Transabdominal ultrasonography can reveal the pancreatic cystic lesions of IPMN as well as dilated pancreatic: ducts. Some characteristics should be noticed as suggesting the possibility of malignancy: clinical symptoms of pancreatic insufficiency, large tumor size, and mural nodules with color Doppler flow signals. Transabdominal ultrasonography could be a useful tool to help diagnose and make appropriate management of IPMN.
基金Project(2010-0021154)supported by National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education,Science and Technology through the Basic Science Research ProgramProject(2012H1B8A2025982)supported by Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation,Korea
文摘Existing pen and ink sketch technologies can be applied to general images, but they could not produce optimal output for images of traditional architecture, because most images consist of exquisite straight lined patterns in traditional architecture, such as root tiles and window bars. The lines of roofs and eaves need to be described delicately to express pen and ink sketch most effectively. Therefore, by proposing a method to create white noise for light and shade of input images, to extract input vector directions from the white noise, and to determine the direction and length of stroke, a new expression technique is proposed for pen and ink sketch that could best reflect the characteristics of traditional architecture.
文摘In general, to reconstruct the accurate shape of buildings, we need at least one stereomodel (two photographs) for each building. In most cases, however, only a single non-metric photograph is available, which is usually obtained either by an amateur, such as a tourist, or from a newspaper or a post card. To evaluate the validity of 3D reconstruction from a single non-metric image, this study analyzes the effects of object depth on the accuracy of dimensional shape in X and Y directions using a single non-metric image by means of simulation technique, as this was considered to be, in most cases, a main source of data acquisition in recording and documenting buildings.
文摘Audio visual style has a complex multi-functionality and the important part of this deals with the way that the character body is visualized and how body language is implemented in the moving image. With a number of examples of contemporary film and television, the article will line up of key issues of body language in the moving image. This article describes two important aspects of body language in visual media--how visual style mediates the body expressions of fictional character and real persons in news on television and how aspects of the visual style always represent bodily presence in the moving image.
文摘Identification and classification, as well as mapping of marine habitats, are of primary importance to plan management activities, especially in disturbed ecosystems like the ones in the marine areas of Bahrain. Remotely sensed Landsat-8 imagery coupled with field survey was used to identify, classify and map the benthic habitats in Bahrain marine area. The used geospatial techniques include advanced image processing procedures, which comprise of radiometric and atmospheric corrections, sun glint removal, water depth correction and image classification. Extensive ground-truthing analyses through in-situ field surveys by a team of scuba divers were conducted in October 2014 and June 2015 to inform and refine the classifications. The variables collected from this survey included physical and chemical characteristics of the water, habitat type, substrata, fauna and flora. A total of 176 field points were collected and utilized to perform an accurate assessment of the image classification. Initial habitat classification resulted in 20 habitat categories. However, due to the inability of the Landsat-8 sensors to accurately discriminate that level of classification, categories were merged into seven classes. The derived map shows that the benthic marine habitats of Bahrain consist of deep water (2,523 km2), rock (1,738 km2), sand (1,191 km2), deep water/sand (1,006 km2), algae (922 km2), seagrass (591 km2) and corals (275.50 km2). Although limited by the spatial and spectral resolutions of Landsat 8, the used methods produced a suitable map of the benthic habitats within the marine area of Bahrain with an overall accuracy of 84.1%. The use of very high spatial resolution satellite imagery will most likely increase such accuracy significantly.
基金Supported by the Civil Aerospace"The 12~(th) Five-year Plan"Advanced Research Project(No.D040103)
文摘According to the remote sensing image characteristics, a set oi optimized compression quahty assessment methods is proposed on the basis of generating simulative images. Firstly, a means is put forward that generates simulative images by scanning aerial films taking into account the space-borne remote sensing camera characteristics (including pixel resolution, histogram dynamic range and quantization). In the course of compression quality assessment, the objective assessment considers images texture changes and mutual relationship between simulative images and decompressed ima- ges, while the synthesized estimation factor (SEF) is brought out innovatively for the first time. Subjective assessment adopts a display setup -- 0.5mrn/pixel, which considers human visual char- acteristic and mainstream monitor. The set of methods are applied in compression plan design of panchromatic camera loaded on ZY-1-02C satellite. Through systematic and comprehensive assess- ment, simulation results show that image compression quality with the compression ratio of d:l can meet the remote sensing application requirements.
文摘With rapid development of remote sensing technology, the resolution of remote sensing images is increasingly improved; then people can extract more useful data and information from these images. Thus, an important information extraction method from remote sensing images - image classification, becomes more and more important. Based on phenopthase and band composition characteristics, this paper firstly discusses the important role of background parameters in remote sensing images classification; then based on geographical infomation system technology, the computerized automatic classification to high-medium-low-yield croplands in Dingxiang County of Shanxi Province in rotate sensing images has been carried out by using eompound layers classification method of multi-thematic information; compared the classification result to the visual interpretation results, the accuracy increases from 70% to above 90%.
文摘In order to fast transmission and processing of medical images and do not need to install client and plug-ins, the paper designed a kind of medical image reading system based on BS structure. This system improved the existing IWEB in the framework of PACS client image processing, medical image based on the service WEB completion port model. To realize the fast loading images with high concurrency, compared with the traditional WEB PACS, this system has the advantages of no client without plug-in installation, at the same time in the transmission and processing performance image has been greatly improved.
文摘In this paper, the authors present ConGrap, a novel contour detector for finding closed contours with semantic connections. Based on gradient-based edge detection, a Gradient Map is generated to store the orientation of every edge pixel. Using the edge image and the generated Gradient Map, ConGrap separates the image into semantic parts and objects. Each edge pixel is mapped to a contour by a three-stage hierarchical analysis of neighbored pixels and ensures the closing of contours. A final post-process of ConGrap extracts the contour borderlines and merges them, if they semantically relate to each other. In contrast to common edge and contour detections, ConGrap not only produces an edge image, but also provides additional information (e.g., the borderline pixel coordinates the bounding box, etc.) for every contour. Additionally, the resulting contour image provides closed contours without discontinuities and merged regions with semantic connections. Consequently, the ConGrap contour image can be seen as an enhanced edge image as well as a kind of segmentation and object recognition.
文摘OBJECTIVE To investigate the images characteristics of primary malignant intracranial lymphoma. METHODS Retrospective study was conducted on CT/MRI imaging characteristics of 9 cases with primary malignant intracranial lymphoma. RESULTS The patients had lesions mostly in the supratentorial region, including the parts of deep white matter, para-ependymal regions, and corpus callosum. The shapes of the lesions were round or irregular. CT scan showed equal or slightly high density of the tumor images, compared with the normal tissue in the brain. The TIWI of MRI scan on the tumor showed low signal and the T2WI showed equal or slightly high signal. The MRI signals were homogenous. Cystic lesion, calcification, and hemorrhage were rarely seen in MRI. Edema around tumor and its occupational effect was lessened. Edema around tumor shown in MRI was not in accordance with the true volume of the tumor mass. Enhanced scan on the lesions showed homogenous enhancement, and the pia mater invaded and/or the spread along ependyma. CONCLUSION Images of primary malignant intracranial lymphoma have specific characteristics that are useful in its diagnosis and differential diagnosis.
文摘This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze's two books on cinema, the discussion of images demonstrates the entangled juxtaposition of the three levels: brain-thought, cinema-screen, and world-images that compose the cinematic consciousness. Through the interacted movement-images and time-images, the film unfolds the storyline within the aesthetic pleasure of poetic sentiment that gradually leads the audience to learn that a wandering boy, Hsiao-Hsiang, after the death of his father, has had several adventurous encounters that gradually expose the secrecy of his traumatic family: His birth mother has no decent job and his step-father has killed his own brother. This broken family has been haunted by the shared guilt and the undead memory as Derrida famously claims that hauntology precedes ontology. As the past coexists with the present, Deleuze analyzes the concept of I, with a central fracture in its pure form of the past demonstrating an ontological enigma that remains forever a secret. When the director uses the four portraits to indicate the four important events of this wandering boy, he deliberately leaves empty the fourth portrait, the self-portrait of the boy; it remains as an incomplete piece which symbolizes an enigma of his own life. It shows certain constitutive unnamable forces acting within the boy that seduces him forever to painfully misrecognize himself.