《影像數學方法手冊》對成像科學中使用的數學技術進行了全面的論述。材料分為兩個中心主題,即逆問題(算法重建)和信號和圖像處理。主題中的每個部分包括應用程序(建模)、數學、數值方法(使用案例示例)和開放問題。由該領域的專家撰寫的報告在數學上是嚴謹的。
這個擴展和修訂的第二版包含了對現有章節的更新和16個重要的數學方法,如圖形切割,形態學,離散幾何,偏微分方程,保形方法,等等。這些條目是交叉引用的,以便通過連接的主題輕松導航。該手冊有印刷和電子兩種形式,增加了200多幅插圖和擴展的參考書目。
它將使應用數學的學生、科學家和研究人員受益。從事成像工作的工程師和計算機科學家也會發現這本手冊很有用。
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題目: Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging
摘要: 該書全面介紹了成像科學中使用的數學技術。材料分為兩個中心主題,即反問題(算法重建)和信號與圖像處理。主題中的每個部分都涵蓋了應用(建模)、數學、數值方法(使用一個實例)和開放性問題。由該領域的專家撰寫的報告,在數學上是嚴謹的。條目是交叉引用的,以便在連接的主題中輕松導航。這本手冊有印刷版和電子版兩種形式,增加了150多幅插圖和擴展書目。
【導讀】一些獨特的醫學成像視角,如前沿的成像方法、數據分析、與神經認知功能更好的相關性,以及疾病監測的詳細示例和總結,可能有助于傳達醫學成像原理和應用的方法學、技術和發展信息。這本書的目的是為初學者和醫學成像領域的專家提供一般的圖像和詳細的描述成像原理和臨床應用。具有最前沿的應用和最新的分析方法,這本書將有望獲取醫療成像研究領域的同事的興趣。精確的插圖和徹底的審查,在許多研究課題,如神經成像定量和相關性,以及癌癥診斷,是這本書的優勢。
考慮到許多與年齡相關的風險,包括血管和神經炎癥的增加,以及可能混淆基準功能磁共振參數圖像,在相對較短的時間內揭示個體水平上的腦功能和微觀結構變化尤其重要。細胞水平的軸索損傷和/或脫髓鞘以及彌散的中觀水平物質異常聚集和結構/功能異常可在短的亞急性/急性期發生,而與年齡縱向變化相關的文獻僅局限于我們以前的fMRI發現。縱向數據用來描述這些多參數,包括隨機截距和個體間隔。性別交互作用對DTI分數各向異性(FA)和擴散系數均無顯著影響。區間有效區域表現出FA的縱向變化,徑向擴散系數(RD)/軸向擴散系數(AX)值與截面數據的老化結果相似。在DTI和fMRI指標之間,以及成像和神經認知數據(包括速度和記憶力)之間,發現了顯著的相關性。我們的結果表明,年齡、性別和載脂蛋白E (APOE)基因型對結構和功能連接在短間隔和橫斷面范圍內的顯著和一致的影響,以及相關的神經認知功能。
在過去,神經性疼痛一直缺乏理想的影像學研究方法,這不僅限制了我們對神經性疼痛發病機制的研究,而且嚴重影響了治療的預后。近年來,隨著fMRI技術的飛速發展,越來越多的學者開始將fMRI技術應用于神經性疼痛的研究。這為揭示神經性疼痛的內在機制和改進臨床治療理念提供了新的思路。在這一章中,我們對fMRI在神經性疼痛中的最新研究進行了綜述,以便讀者更好的了解研究現狀和未來的研究方向。
描述了重帶電粒子、電子和光子與物質的電離輻射相互作用的機理。這些影響造成能量損失的輻射與吸收或衰減的順序效應提出。介紹了幾種具有相關電子學和數據采集系統(DAQ)的特征檢測系統的特點。這些探測器與醫學成像傳感器系統有關。介紹了單光子計算機斷層掃描(SPECT)、正子斷層掃描(PET)和PET- ct聯合成像在醫學成像過程中的特點。計算機x射線斷層攝影,稱為CT,和核醫學斷層攝影被提出,實現了大部分以前的部分,因為他們被定義為PET和SPECT成像加上PET與CT的結合PET-CT。
肺癌是世界上最常見的惡性腫瘤;正電子發射斷層掃描(PET-CT)結合了來自PET的新陳代謝信息和來自CT的解剖學細節,這是目前最先進的技術。本文介紹了PET-CT及其在肺癌診斷、分期和治療中的應用。從肺癌的臨床特點、分型、分級、病理、PET-CT的原則、診斷和治療的評價等方面進行了綜述。詳細說明了每種癌癥亞型、分期標準和分類。內容將有利于臨床醫生以及放射科醫生。
醫學成像是為了識別或研究疾病而獲取身體部位的醫學圖像的過程。全世界每周都有數百萬的成像過程。由于圖像處理技術的發展,包括圖像識別、分析和增強,醫學影像正在迅速發展。圖像處理增加了檢測組織的百分比和數量。本章介紹了簡單和復雜的圖像分析技術在醫學成像領域的應用。本章還總結了如何使用不同的圖像處理算法(如k-means、基于roi的分割和分水嶺技術)來舉例說明圖像解釋的挑戰。
We study the impact of neural networks in text classification. Our focus is on training deep neural networks with proper weight initialization and greedy layer-wise pretraining. Results are compared with 1-layer neural networks and Support Vector Machines. We work with a dataset of labeled messages from the Twitter microblogging service and aim to predict weather conditions. A feature extraction procedure specific for the task is proposed, which applies dimensionality reduction using Latent Semantic Analysis. Our results show that neural networks outperform Support Vector Machines with Gaussian kernels, noticing performance gains from introducing additional hidden layers with nonlinearities. The impact of using Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient in backpropagation is also studied. We conclude that deep neural networks are a reasonable approach for text classification and propose further ideas to improve performance.
Biomedical image segmentation is an important task in many medical applications. Segmentation methods based on convolutional neural networks attain state-of-the-art accuracy; however, they typically rely on supervised training with large labeled datasets. Labeling datasets of medical images requires significant expertise and time, and is infeasible at large scales. To tackle the lack of labeled data, researchers use techniques such as hand-engineered preprocessing steps, hand-tuned architectures, and data augmentation. However, these techniques involve costly engineering efforts, and are typically dataset-specific. We present an automated data augmentation method for medical images. We demonstrate our method on the task of segmenting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans, focusing on the one-shot segmentation scenario -- a practical challenge in many medical applications. Our method requires only a single segmented scan, and leverages other unlabeled scans in a semi-supervised approach. We learn a model of transforms from the images, and use the model along with the labeled example to synthesize additional labeled training examples for supervised segmentation. Each transform is comprised of a spatial deformation field and an intensity change, enabling the synthesis of complex effects such as variations in anatomy and image acquisition procedures. Augmenting the training of a supervised segmenter with these new examples provides significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods for one-shot biomedical image segmentation. Our code is available at //github.com/xamyzhao/brainstorm.
Multispectral imaging is an important technique for improving the readability of written or printed text where the letters have faded, either due to deliberate erasing or simply due to the ravages of time. Often the text can be read simply by looking at individual wavelengths, but in some cases the images need further enhancement to maximise the chances of reading the text. There are many possible enhancement techniques and this paper assesses and compares an extended set of dimensionality reduction methods for image processing. We assess 15 dimensionality reduction methods in two different manuscripts. This assessment was performed both subjectively by asking the opinions of scholars who were experts in the languages used in the manuscripts which of the techniques they preferred and also by using the Davies-Bouldin and Dunn indexes for assessing the quality of the resulted image clusters. We found that the Canonical Variates Analysis (CVA) method which was using a Matlab implementation and we have used previously to enhance multispectral images, it was indeed superior to all the other tested methods. However it is very likely that other approaches will be more suitable in specific circumstance so we would still recommend that a range of these techniques are tried. In particular, CVA is a supervised clustering technique so it requires considerably more user time and effort than a non-supervised technique such as the much more commonly used Principle Component Analysis Approach (PCA). If the results from PCA are adequate to allow a text to be read then the added effort required for CVA may not be justified. For the purposes of comparing the computational times and the image results, a CVA method is also implemented in C programming language and using the GNU (GNUs Not Unix) Scientific Library (GSL) and the OpenCV (OPEN source Computer Vision) computer vision programming library.
We introduce a new multi-dimensional nonlinear embedding -- Piecewise Flat Embedding (PFE) -- for image segmentation. Based on the theory of sparse signal recovery, piecewise flat embedding with diverse channels attempts to recover a piecewise constant image representation with sparse region boundaries and sparse cluster value scattering. The resultant piecewise flat embedding exhibits interesting properties such as suppressing slowly varying signals, and offers an image representation with higher region identifiability which is desirable for image segmentation or high-level semantic analysis tasks. We formulate our embedding as a variant of the Laplacian Eigenmap embedding with an $L_{1,p} (0<p\leq1)$ regularization term to promote sparse solutions. First, we devise a two-stage numerical algorithm based on Bregman iterations to compute $L_{1,1}$-regularized piecewise flat embeddings. We further generalize this algorithm through iterative reweighting to solve the general $L_{1,p}$-regularized problem. To demonstrate its efficacy, we integrate PFE into two existing image segmentation frameworks, segmentation based on clustering and hierarchical segmentation based on contour detection. Experiments on four major benchmark datasets, BSDS500, MSRC, Stanford Background Dataset, and PASCAL Context, show that segmentation algorithms incorporating our embedding achieve significantly improved results.
Many problems on signal processing reduce to nonparametric function estimation. We propose a new methodology, piecewise convex fitting (PCF), and give a two-stage adaptive estimate. In the first stage, the number and location of the change points is estimated using strong smoothing. In the second stage, a constrained smoothing spline fit is performed with the smoothing level chosen to minimize the MSE. The imposed constraint is that a single change point occurs in a region about each empirical change point of the first-stage estimate. This constraint is equivalent to requiring that the third derivative of the second-stage estimate has a single sign in a small neighborhood about each first-stage change point. We sketch how PCF may be applied to signal recovery, instantaneous frequency estimation, surface reconstruction, image segmentation, spectral estimation and multivariate adaptive regression.
Image segmentation is the process of partitioning the image into significant regions easier to analyze. Nowadays, segmentation has become a necessity in many practical medical imaging methods as locating tumors and diseases. Hidden Markov Random Field model is one of several techniques used in image segmentation. It provides an elegant way to model the segmentation process. This modeling leads to the minimization of an objective function. Conjugate Gradient algorithm (CG) is one of the best known optimization techniques. This paper proposes the use of the Conjugate Gradient algorithm (CG) for image segmentation, based on the Hidden Markov Random Field. Since derivatives are not available for this expression, finite differences are used in the CG algorithm to approximate the first derivative. The approach is evaluated using a number of publicly available images, where ground truth is known. The Dice Coefficient is used as an objective criterion to measure the quality of segmentation. The results show that the proposed CG approach compares favorably with other variants of Hidden Markov Random Field segmentation algorithms.
Image segmentation is still an open problem especially when intensities of the interested objects are overlapped due to the presence of intensity inhomogeneity (also known as bias field). To segment images with intensity inhomogeneities, a bias correction embedded level set model is proposed where Inhomogeneities are Estimated by Orthogonal Primary Functions (IEOPF). In the proposed model, the smoothly varying bias is estimated by a linear combination of a given set of orthogonal primary functions. An inhomogeneous intensity clustering energy is then defined and membership functions of the clusters described by the level set function are introduced to rewrite the energy as a data term of the proposed model. Similar to popular level set methods, a regularization term and an arc length term are also included to regularize and smooth the level set function, respectively. The proposed model is then extended to multichannel and multiphase patterns to segment colourful images and images with multiple objects, respectively. It has been extensively tested on both synthetic and real images that are widely used in the literature and public BrainWeb and IBSR datasets. Experimental results and comparison with state-of-the-art methods demonstrate that advantages of the proposed model in terms of bias correction and segmentation accuracy.