With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues co...With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues come along with it.Zero watermarking can solve this problem well.To protect the security of medical information and improve the algorithm’s robustness,this paper proposes a robust watermarking algorithm for medical images based on Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)and Schur decomposition.Firstly,the low-frequency subband image of the original medical image is obtained by NSST and chunked.Secondly,the Schur decomposition of low-frequency blocks to get stable values,extracting the maximum absolute value of the diagonal elements of the upper triangle matrix after the Schur decom-position of each low-frequency block and constructing the transition matrix from it.Then,the mean of the matrix is compared to each element’s value,creating a feature matrix by combining perceptual hashing,and selecting 32 bits as the feature sequence.Finally,the feature vector is exclusive OR(XOR)operated with the encrypted watermark information to get the zero watermark and complete registration with a third-party copyright certification center.Experimental data show that the Normalized Correlation(NC)values of watermarks extracted in random carrier medical images are above 0.5,with higher robustness than traditional algorithms,especially against geometric attacks and achieve watermark information invisibility without altering the carrier medical image.展开更多
Contraposing the need of the robust digital watermark for the copyright protection field, a new digital watermarking algorithm in the non-subsampled contourlet transform （NSCT） domain is proposed. The largest energy...Contraposing the need of the robust digital watermark for the copyright protection field, a new digital watermarking algorithm in the non-subsampled contourlet transform （NSCT） domain is proposed. The largest energy sub-band after NSCT is selected to embed watermark. The watermark is embedded into scaleinvariant feature transform （SIFT） regions. During embedding, the initial region is divided into some cirque sub-regions with the same area, and each watermark bit is embedded into one sub-region. Extensive simulation results and comparisons show that the algorithm gets a good trade-off of invisibility, robustness and capacity, thus obtaining good quality of the image while being able to effectively resist common image processing, and geometric and combo attacks, and normalized similarity is almost all reached.展开更多
Multimodal medical image fusion is a powerful tool for diagnosing diseases in medical field. The main objective is to capture the relevant information from input images into a single output image, which plays an impor...Multimodal medical image fusion is a powerful tool for diagnosing diseases in medical field. The main objective is to capture the relevant information from input images into a single output image, which plays an important role in clinical applications. In this paper, an image fusion technique for the fusion of multimodal medical images is proposed based on Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform. The proposed technique uses the Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) to decompose the images into lowpass and highpass subbands. The lowpass and highpass subbands are fused by using mean based and variance based fusion rules. The reconstructed image is obtained by taking Inverse Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (INSCT) on fused subbands. The experimental results on six pairs of medical images are compared in terms of entropy, mean, standard deviation, Q<sup>AB/F</sup> as performance parameters. It reveals that the proposed image fusion technique outperforms the existing image fusion techniques in terms of quantitative and qualitative outcomes of the images. The percentage improvement in entropy is 0% - 40%, mean is 3% - 42%, standard deviation is 1% - 42%, Q<sup>AB/F</sup>is 0.4% - 48% in proposed method comparing to conventional methods for six pairs of medical images.展开更多
α-titanium and its alloys with a dual-phase structure （α＋β） were deformed dynamically under strain rate of about 10^4 s^-1. The formation and microstructural evolution of the localized shear bands were character...α-titanium and its alloys with a dual-phase structure （α＋β） were deformed dynamically under strain rate of about 10^4 s^-1. The formation and microstructural evolution of the localized shear bands were characterized by scanning electron microscopy （SEM） and transmission electron microscopy （TEM）. The results reveal that both the strain and strain rate should be considered simultaneously as the mechanical conditions for shear band formation, and twinning is an important mode of deformation. Both experimental and calculation show that the materials within the bands underwent a superhigh strain rate （9×10^5 S^-1） deformation, which is two magnitudes of that of average strain rate required for shear band formation; the dislocations in the bands can be constricted and developed into cell structures; the phase transformation from α to α2 within the bands was observed, and the transformation products （α2） had a certain crystallographic orientation relationship with their parent; the equiaxed grains with an average size of 10 μm in diameter observed within the bands are proposed to be the results of recrystallization.展开更多
The transient radial shearing interferometry technique based on fast Fourier transform(FFT)provides a means for the measurement of the wavefront phase of transient light field.However,which factors affect the spatial ...The transient radial shearing interferometry technique based on fast Fourier transform(FFT)provides a means for the measurement of the wavefront phase of transient light field.However,which factors affect the spatial bandwidth of the wavefront phase measurement of this technology and how to achieve high-precision measurement of the broad-band transient wavefront phase are problems that need to be studied further.To this end,a theoretical model of phase-retrieved bandwidth of radial shearing interferometry is established in this paper.The influence of the spatial carrier frequency and the calculation window on phase-retrieved bandwidth is analyzed,and the optimal carrier frequency and calculation window are obtained.On this basis,a broad-band transient radial shearing interference phase-retrieval method based on chirp Z transform(CZT)is proposed,and the corresponding algorithm is given.Through theoretical simulation,a known phase is used to generate the interferogram and it is retrieved by the traditional method and the proposed method respectively.The residual wavefront RMS of the traditional method is 0.146λ,and it is 0.037λfor the proposed method,which manifests an improvement of accuracy by an order of magnitude.At the same time,different levels of signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs)from 50 dB to 10 dB of the interferogram are simulated,and the RMS of the residual wavefront is from 0.040λto 0.066λ.In terms of experiments,an experimental verification device based on a phase-only spatial light modulator is built,and the known phase on the modulator is retrieved from the actual interferogram.The RMS of the residual wavefront retrieved through FFT is 0.112λ,and it decreases to 0.035λthrough CZT.The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper.Furthermore,the method can be used in other types of spatial carrier frequency interference,such as lateral shearing interference,rotational shearing interference,flipping shearing interference,and four-wave shearing interference.展开更多
The main cause of skin cancer is the ultraviolet radiation of the sun.It spreads quickly to other body parts.Thus,early diagnosis is required to decrease the mortality rate due to skin cancer.In this study,an automati...The main cause of skin cancer is the ultraviolet radiation of the sun.It spreads quickly to other body parts.Thus,early diagnosis is required to decrease the mortality rate due to skin cancer.In this study,an automatic system for Skin Lesion Classification(SLC)using Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)based energy features and Support Vector Machine(SVM)classifier is proposed.Atfirst,the NSST is used for the decomposition of input skin lesion images with different directions like 2,4,8 and 16.From the NSST’s sub-bands,energy fea-tures are extracted and stored in the feature database for training.SVM classifier is used for the classification of skin lesion images.The dermoscopic skin images are obtained from PH^(2) database which comprises of 200 dermoscopic color images with melanocytic lesions.The performances of the SLC system are evaluated using the confusion matrix and Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC)curves.The SLC system achieves 96%classification accuracy using NSST’s energy fea-tures obtained from 3^(rd) level with 8-directions.展开更多
The coexistent phenomenon of deformed and transformed adiabatic shear bands(ASBs) of ductile metal was analyzed using the JOHNSON-COOK model and gradient-dependent plasticity(GDP).The effects of melting point,density,...The coexistent phenomenon of deformed and transformed adiabatic shear bands(ASBs) of ductile metal was analyzed using the JOHNSON-COOK model and gradient-dependent plasticity(GDP).The effects of melting point,density,heat capacity and work to heat conversion factor were investigated.Higher work to heat conversion factor,lower density,lower heat capacity and higher melting point lead to wider transformed ASB and higher local plastic shear deformation between deformed and transformed ASBs.Higher work to heat conversion factor,lower density,lower heat capacity and lower melting point cause higher local plastic shear deformation in the deformed ASB.Three reasons for the scatter in experimental data on the ASB width were pointed out and the advantages of the work were discussed.If the transformed ASB width is used to back-calculate the internal length parameter in the GDP,undoubtedly,the parameter will be extremely underestimated.展开更多
Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical ...Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical image fusion solutions to protect image details and significant information, a new multimodality medical image fusion method(NSST-PAPCNNLatLRR) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the high and low-frequency sub-band coefficients are obtained by decomposing the source image using NSST. Then, the latent low-rank representation algorithm is used to process the low-frequency sub-band coefficients;An improved PAPCNN algorithm is also proposed for the fusion of high-frequency sub-band coefficients. The improved PAPCNN model was based on the automatic setting of the parameters, and the optimal method was configured for the time decay factor αe. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the five mainstream fusion algorithms, the new algorithm has significantly improved the visual effect over the comparison algorithm,enhanced the ability to characterize important information in images, and further improved the ability to protect the detailed information;the new algorithm has achieved at least four firsts in six objective indexes.展开更多
基金supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62063004the Key Research Project of Hainan Province under Grant ZDYF2021SHFZ093+1 种基金the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 2019RC018 and 619QN246the postdoctoral research from Zhejiang Province under Grant ZJ2021028.
文摘With the development of digitalization in healthcare,more and more information is delivered and stored in digital form,facilitating people’s lives significantly.In the meanwhile,privacy leakage and security issues come along with it.Zero watermarking can solve this problem well.To protect the security of medical information and improve the algorithm’s robustness,this paper proposes a robust watermarking algorithm for medical images based on Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)and Schur decomposition.Firstly,the low-frequency subband image of the original medical image is obtained by NSST and chunked.Secondly,the Schur decomposition of low-frequency blocks to get stable values,extracting the maximum absolute value of the diagonal elements of the upper triangle matrix after the Schur decom-position of each low-frequency block and constructing the transition matrix from it.Then,the mean of the matrix is compared to each element’s value,creating a feature matrix by combining perceptual hashing,and selecting 32 bits as the feature sequence.Finally,the feature vector is exclusive OR(XOR)operated with the encrypted watermark information to get the zero watermark and complete registration with a third-party copyright certification center.Experimental data show that the Normalized Correlation(NC)values of watermarks extracted in random carrier medical images are above 0.5,with higher robustness than traditional algorithms,especially against geometric attacks and achieve watermark information invisibility without altering the carrier medical image.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61379010)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(2015JM6293)
文摘Contraposing the need of the robust digital watermark for the copyright protection field, a new digital watermarking algorithm in the non-subsampled contourlet transform （NSCT） domain is proposed. The largest energy sub-band after NSCT is selected to embed watermark. The watermark is embedded into scaleinvariant feature transform （SIFT） regions. During embedding, the initial region is divided into some cirque sub-regions with the same area, and each watermark bit is embedded into one sub-region. Extensive simulation results and comparisons show that the algorithm gets a good trade-off of invisibility, robustness and capacity, thus obtaining good quality of the image while being able to effectively resist common image processing, and geometric and combo attacks, and normalized similarity is almost all reached.
文摘Multimodal medical image fusion is a powerful tool for diagnosing diseases in medical field. The main objective is to capture the relevant information from input images into a single output image, which plays an important role in clinical applications. In this paper, an image fusion technique for the fusion of multimodal medical images is proposed based on Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform. The proposed technique uses the Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) to decompose the images into lowpass and highpass subbands. The lowpass and highpass subbands are fused by using mean based and variance based fusion rules. The reconstructed image is obtained by taking Inverse Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (INSCT) on fused subbands. The experimental results on six pairs of medical images are compared in terms of entropy, mean, standard deviation, Q<sup>AB/F</sup> as performance parameters. It reveals that the proposed image fusion technique outperforms the existing image fusion techniques in terms of quantitative and qualitative outcomes of the images. The percentage improvement in entropy is 0% - 40%, mean is 3% - 42%, standard deviation is 1% - 42%, Q<sup>AB/F</sup>is 0.4% - 48% in proposed method comparing to conventional methods for six pairs of medical images.
基金This research was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(No.50071064).
文摘α-titanium and its alloys with a dual-phase structure （α＋β） were deformed dynamically under strain rate of about 10^4 s^-1. The formation and microstructural evolution of the localized shear bands were characterized by scanning electron microscopy （SEM） and transmission electron microscopy （TEM）. The results reveal that both the strain and strain rate should be considered simultaneously as the mechanical conditions for shear band formation, and twinning is an important mode of deformation. Both experimental and calculation show that the materials within the bands underwent a superhigh strain rate （9×10^5 S^-1） deformation, which is two magnitudes of that of average strain rate required for shear band formation; the dislocations in the bands can be constricted and developed into cell structures; the phase transformation from α to α2 within the bands was observed, and the transformation products （α2） had a certain crystallographic orientation relationship with their parent; the equiaxed grains with an average size of 10 μm in diameter observed within the bands are proposed to be the results of recrystallization.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61705254)the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province of China(Grant No.2020GY-114).
文摘The transient radial shearing interferometry technique based on fast Fourier transform(FFT)provides a means for the measurement of the wavefront phase of transient light field.However,which factors affect the spatial bandwidth of the wavefront phase measurement of this technology and how to achieve high-precision measurement of the broad-band transient wavefront phase are problems that need to be studied further.To this end,a theoretical model of phase-retrieved bandwidth of radial shearing interferometry is established in this paper.The influence of the spatial carrier frequency and the calculation window on phase-retrieved bandwidth is analyzed,and the optimal carrier frequency and calculation window are obtained.On this basis,a broad-band transient radial shearing interference phase-retrieval method based on chirp Z transform(CZT)is proposed,and the corresponding algorithm is given.Through theoretical simulation,a known phase is used to generate the interferogram and it is retrieved by the traditional method and the proposed method respectively.The residual wavefront RMS of the traditional method is 0.146λ,and it is 0.037λfor the proposed method,which manifests an improvement of accuracy by an order of magnitude.At the same time,different levels of signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs)from 50 dB to 10 dB of the interferogram are simulated,and the RMS of the residual wavefront is from 0.040λto 0.066λ.In terms of experiments,an experimental verification device based on a phase-only spatial light modulator is built,and the known phase on the modulator is retrieved from the actual interferogram.The RMS of the residual wavefront retrieved through FFT is 0.112λ,and it decreases to 0.035λthrough CZT.The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper.Furthermore,the method can be used in other types of spatial carrier frequency interference,such as lateral shearing interference,rotational shearing interference,flipping shearing interference,and four-wave shearing interference.
文摘The main cause of skin cancer is the ultraviolet radiation of the sun.It spreads quickly to other body parts.Thus,early diagnosis is required to decrease the mortality rate due to skin cancer.In this study,an automatic system for Skin Lesion Classification(SLC)using Non-Subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST)based energy features and Support Vector Machine(SVM)classifier is proposed.Atfirst,the NSST is used for the decomposition of input skin lesion images with different directions like 2,4,8 and 16.From the NSST’s sub-bands,energy fea-tures are extracted and stored in the feature database for training.SVM classifier is used for the classification of skin lesion images.The dermoscopic skin images are obtained from PH^(2) database which comprises of 200 dermoscopic color images with melanocytic lesions.The performances of the SLC system are evaluated using the confusion matrix and Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC)curves.The SLC system achieves 96%classification accuracy using NSST’s energy fea-tures obtained from 3^(rd) level with 8-directions.
基金Project(2004F052) supported by the Educational Department of Liaoning Province, China
文摘The coexistent phenomenon of deformed and transformed adiabatic shear bands(ASBs) of ductile metal was analyzed using the JOHNSON-COOK model and gradient-dependent plasticity(GDP).The effects of melting point,density,heat capacity and work to heat conversion factor were investigated.Higher work to heat conversion factor,lower density,lower heat capacity and higher melting point lead to wider transformed ASB and higher local plastic shear deformation between deformed and transformed ASBs.Higher work to heat conversion factor,lower density,lower heat capacity and lower melting point cause higher local plastic shear deformation in the deformed ASB.Three reasons for the scatter in experimental data on the ASB width were pointed out and the advantages of the work were discussed.If the transformed ASB width is used to back-calculate the internal length parameter in the GDP,undoubtedly,the parameter will be extremely underestimated.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,grant number 61302188.
文摘Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical image fusion solutions to protect image details and significant information, a new multimodality medical image fusion method(NSST-PAPCNNLatLRR) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the high and low-frequency sub-band coefficients are obtained by decomposing the source image using NSST. Then, the latent low-rank representation algorithm is used to process the low-frequency sub-band coefficients;An improved PAPCNN algorithm is also proposed for the fusion of high-frequency sub-band coefficients. The improved PAPCNN model was based on the automatic setting of the parameters, and the optimal method was configured for the time decay factor αe. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the five mainstream fusion algorithms, the new algorithm has significantly improved the visual effect over the comparison algorithm,enhanced the ability to characterize important information in images, and further improved the ability to protect the detailed information;the new algorithm has achieved at least four firsts in six objective indexes.
