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Cerebrovascular segmentation from time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) is essential in providing supportive information for diagnosing and treatment planning of multiple intracranial vascular diseases. Different imaging modalities utilize distinct principles to visualize the cerebral vasculature, which leads to the limitations of expensi...Show More
Deep Image Prior (DIP) is a powerful unsupervised learning image restoration technique. However, DIP struggles when handling complex degradation scenarios involving mixed image artifacts. To address this limitation, we propose a novel technique to enhance DIP’s performance in handling mixed image degradation. Our method leverages additional deep denoiser, which is deployed as a denoising engine in...Show More
Segment Anything Model (SAM), a vision foundation model trained on large-scale annotations, has recently continued raising awareness within medical image segmentation. Despite the impressive capabilities of SAM on natural scenes, it struggles with performance decline when confronted with medical images, especially those involving blurry boundaries and highly irregular regions of low contrast. In t...Show More
Accurate molecular representation plays a crucial role in expediting the process of drug discovery. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated robust capabilities in molecular representation learning, adept at capturing structural and spatial information in molecular graphs. For molecular representation learning, most previous GNN methods are specialized in dealing with 2D or 3D molecular data...Show More
Computer vision-based walking assistants are prominent tools for aiding visually impaired people in navigation. Blind road segmentation is a key element in these walking assistant systems. However, most walking assistant systems rely on visual light images, which is dangerous in weak illumination environments such as darkness or fog. To address this issue and enhance the safety of vision-based wal...Show More
Video semantic segmentation has achieved great success, which is significant for road scene understanding. However, semantic segmentation remains challenging in poor illumination and inclement weather. Thermal camera, highly invariant to light and highly penetrating to rain and fog, enables semantic segmentation to work under challenging conditions. Thus, this paper explores semantic segmentation ...Show More
Infrared image segmentation is a challenging task, due to interference of complex background and appearance inhomogeneity of foreground objects. A critical defect of fuzzy clustering for infrared image segmentation is that the method treats image pixels or fragments in isolation. In this paper, we propose to adopt self-representation from sparse subspace clustering in fuzzy clustering, aiming to i...Show More
Infrared small target detection plays an important role in military and civilian fields while it is difficult to be solved by deep learning (DL) technologies due to scarcity of data and strong interclass imbalance. To relieve scarcity of data, we build a massive dataset IRDST, which contains 142 727 frames. Also, we propose a receptive-field and direction-induced attention network (RDIAN), which i...Show More
A photon synthesis method was developed recently which can generate photon beam of any equivalent energy from only two energies. In this work, a novel continuous beam energy selector for photon intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) was proposed and validated. Based on the effective path length of the target and organs at risk, a model based on dose reference points was proposed and optimized to ...Show More
Semantic segmentation in urban scenes is widely used in applications of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In urban scenes, thermal infrared (TIR) images can be captured in weak illumination conditions or in the presence of obscuration (e.g., light fog, smoke). Therefore, TIR images have great potential to endow automated intelligent vehicles or assist navigation systems. However, TIR imagi...Show More
Cerebrovascular segmentation in time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) volumes is essential for a variety of diagnostic and analytical applications. However, accurate cerebrovascular segmentation in 3D TOF-MRA is faced with multiple issues, including vast variations in cerebrovascular morphology and intensity, noisy background, and severe class imbalance between foreground cerebra...Show More
The goal of zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to transfer knowledge learned from seen classes during training to unseen classes for testing, with the help of auxiliary information, such as attributes and descriptions. Most of the existing methods view ZSL as a label-embedding problem, in which class and image representations are embedded to a common space. However, many methods either show a bias toward...Show More
Infrared ship segmentation is extensively applied in military fields. Due to noise and intensity inhomogeneity, the segmentation of infrared ship is a challenging task. The fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is widely used in image segmentation. However, traditional FCM is sensitive to noise and unable to obtain desirable segmentation results for infrared ship images. In this article, a nove...Show More
Computed tomography can provide a 3D view of the patient's internal anatomy. However, traditional CT reconstruction methods require hundreds of X-ray projections through a full rotational scan of the body, which cannot be performed on a typical X-ray machine. In order to deal with the impact of organ movement caused by respiration in radiotherapy on the accuracy of radiotherapy, we propose to reco...Show More
Interferential background, boundary uncertainty, and noises are usually involved in infrared pedestrian imaging, which erect barrier for accurate segmentation. To counter the conundrum rising in these cases, we present a novel intuitionistic fuzzy clustering-based segmentation method, which integrates structural symmetry and local homoplasy information, for precise infrared pedestrian segmentation...Show More
Fast and accurate ellipse detection is critical in certain computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose an arc adjacency matrix-based ellipse detection (AAMED) method to fulfill this requirement. At first, after segmenting the edges into elliptic arcs, the digraph-based arc adjacency matrix (AAM) is constructed to describe their triple sequential adjacency states. Curvature and region constrai...Show More
Crowd counting has gained popularity due to wide applications, such as intelligent security, and urban planning. However, scale variation and perspective distortion make it a challenging task. Most existing works focus on multi-scale feature extraction to address the challenge of scale variation and perspective distortion. In this paper, we propose a novel Global Context Instructive Network (GCINe...Show More
The fast and robust detection of far targets is one of the key techniques in infrared searching and tracking applications. Using multiorder directional derivatives, an effective and concise detection method performed on a single IR image is proposed in this article. First, multiorder directional derivatives of an image are derived from the facet model. According to the derivative characteristics o...Show More
Fuzzy c-means (FCM) is a popular clustering method for image segmentation. However, FCM has difficulties in handling artifacts in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially when it comes to bias field and noise. We propose a novel multiple-surface-approximation-based FCM with interval membership method for simultaneous bias correction and segmentation of Brain MRI. First, multiple surface ...Show More
This paper presents a distribution information based intuitionistic fuzzy clustering method for infrared ship segmentation. The algorithm could effectively suppress the influences of nontarget objects with high intensity and intensity inhomogeneity in the infrared ship images. There are mainly two improvements in this paper. First, it proposes a fuzzy clustering algorithm incorporating global dist...Show More
Surface point cloud matching is a useful technique for patient positioning during radiation therapy, system registering of surgical navigation system, etc. A common method for 3D point cloud registration is to estimate the registration function based on the 3D keypoint feature correspondences. However, the feature distance of correct correspondence is usually not the closest, but it is hidden in t...Show More
Weighted Schatten p-norm minimization (WSNM) has been used successfully for noisy-free image completion. However, WSNM can introduce extra artifacts if the observed entries of image contain noise. In this paper, we present a novel WSNM-based method for noisy image completion, which incorporates both local smoothness and nonlocal self-similarity in a unified framework. More concretely, the analysis...Show More
Skeletal bone age assessment based on hand x-ray is widely used in many fields. There is an urgent need for automated method to alleviate manual labor and address the problem of intra- and inter-observer variability. Most existing methods modeled the task as regression or multiclass classification problems. However, the regression method over-simplifies the relation between image features and bone...Show More
Saliency detection is important in computer vision. However, most of the existing saliency models are designed for visible images. It is still a challenging problem to apply saliency detection algorithms on infrared images. In this paper, an effective propagation based saliency detection method for infrared pedestrian images is proposed. Firstly, based on the thermal characteristics of infrared im...Show More
Organ localization is an essential prerequisite for many computed tomography (CT) image analysis tasks such as organ segmentation, lesion detection, and image registration. However, it is a challenging problem due to various causes such as the low-contrast organ boundaries, the large variations of organ appearance, the truncated organs, and the abnormalities. In this work, we propose an automatic ...Show More