Background: Non-uniformity in signal intensity occurs commonly in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which may pose substantial problems when using a 3T scanner. Therefore, image non-uniformity correction is usually app...Background: Non-uniformity in signal intensity occurs commonly in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which may pose substantial problems when using a 3T scanner. Therefore, image non-uniformity correction is usually applied. Purpose: To compare the correction effects of the phased-array uniformity enhancement (PURE), a calibration-based image non-uniformity correction method, among three different software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Material and Methods: Hepatobiliary-phase images of a total of 120 patients who underwent Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging on the same 3T scanner were analyzed retrospectively. Forty patients each were examined using three software versions (DV25, DV25.1, and DV26). The effects of PURE were compared by visual assessment, histogram analysis of liver signal intensity, evaluation of the spatial distribution of correction effects, and evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement. Results: The visual assessment indicated the highest uniformity of PURE-corrected images for DV26, followed by DV25 and DV25.1. Histogram analysis of corrected images demonstrated significantly larger variations in liver signal for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. Although PURE caused a relative increase in pixel values for central and lateral regions, such effects were weaker for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. In the evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement, the liver-to-muscle ratio (LMR) was significantly higher for the corrected images than for the uncorrected images, but the liver-to-spleen ratio (LSR) showed no significant differences. For corrected images, the LMR was significantly higher for DV25 and DV26 than for DV25.1, but the LSR showed no significant differences among the three versions. Conclusion: There were differences in the effects of PURE among the three software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Even if the non-uniformity correction method has the same brand name, correction effects may differ depending on the software version, and these differences may affect visual and quantitative evaluations.展开更多
针对无人机航拍图像目标检测中视野变化大、时空信息复杂等问题,文中基于YOLOv5(You Only Look Once Version5)架构,提出基于图像低维特征融合的航拍小目标检测模型.引入CA(Coordinate Attention),改进MobileNetV3的反转残差块,增加图...针对无人机航拍图像目标检测中视野变化大、时空信息复杂等问题,文中基于YOLOv5(You Only Look Once Version5)架构,提出基于图像低维特征融合的航拍小目标检测模型.引入CA(Coordinate Attention),改进MobileNetV3的反转残差块,增加图像空间维度信息的同时降低模型参数量.改进YOLOv5特征金字塔网络结构,融合浅层网络中的特征图,增加模型对图像低维有效信息的表达能力,进而提升小目标检测精度.同时为了降低航拍图像中复杂背景带来的干扰,引入无参平均注意力模块,同时关注图像的空间注意力与通道注意力;引入VariFocal Loss,降低负样本在训练过程中的权重占比.在VisDrone数据集上的实验验证文中模型的有效性,该模型在有效提升检测精度的同时明显降低复杂度.展开更多
文摘Background: Non-uniformity in signal intensity occurs commonly in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which may pose substantial problems when using a 3T scanner. Therefore, image non-uniformity correction is usually applied. Purpose: To compare the correction effects of the phased-array uniformity enhancement (PURE), a calibration-based image non-uniformity correction method, among three different software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Material and Methods: Hepatobiliary-phase images of a total of 120 patients who underwent Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging on the same 3T scanner were analyzed retrospectively. Forty patients each were examined using three software versions (DV25, DV25.1, and DV26). The effects of PURE were compared by visual assessment, histogram analysis of liver signal intensity, evaluation of the spatial distribution of correction effects, and evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement. Results: The visual assessment indicated the highest uniformity of PURE-corrected images for DV26, followed by DV25 and DV25.1. Histogram analysis of corrected images demonstrated significantly larger variations in liver signal for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. Although PURE caused a relative increase in pixel values for central and lateral regions, such effects were weaker for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. In the evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement, the liver-to-muscle ratio (LMR) was significantly higher for the corrected images than for the uncorrected images, but the liver-to-spleen ratio (LSR) showed no significant differences. For corrected images, the LMR was significantly higher for DV25 and DV26 than for DV25.1, but the LSR showed no significant differences among the three versions. Conclusion: There were differences in the effects of PURE among the three software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Even if the non-uniformity correction method has the same brand name, correction effects may differ depending on the software version, and these differences may affect visual and quantitative evaluations.
文摘针对无人机航拍图像目标检测中视野变化大、时空信息复杂等问题,文中基于YOLOv5(You Only Look Once Version5)架构,提出基于图像低维特征融合的航拍小目标检测模型.引入CA(Coordinate Attention),改进MobileNetV3的反转残差块,增加图像空间维度信息的同时降低模型参数量.改进YOLOv5特征金字塔网络结构,融合浅层网络中的特征图,增加模型对图像低维有效信息的表达能力,进而提升小目标检测精度.同时为了降低航拍图像中复杂背景带来的干扰,引入无参平均注意力模块,同时关注图像的空间注意力与通道注意力;引入VariFocal Loss,降低负样本在训练过程中的权重占比.在VisDrone数据集上的实验验证文中模型的有效性,该模型在有效提升检测精度的同时明显降低复杂度.