Colored Texture Analysis Fuzzy Entropy Methods with a Dermoscopic Application

Texture analysis is a subject of intensive focus in research due to its significant role in the field of image processing. However, few studies focus on colored texture analysis and even fewer use information theory concepts. Entropy measures have been proven competent for gray scale images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no well-established entropy methods that deal with colored images yet. Therefore, we propose the recent colored bidimensional fuzzy entropy measure, FuzEnC2D, and introduce its new multi-channel approaches, FuzEnV2D and FuzEnM2D, for the analysis of colored images. We investigate their sensitivity to parameters and ability to identify images with different irregularity degrees, and therefore different textures. Moreover, we study their behavior with colored Brodatz images in different color spaces. After verifying the results with test images, we employ the three methods for analyzing dermoscopic images of malignant melanoma and benign melanocytic nevi. FuzEnC2D, FuzEnV2D, and FuzEnM2D illustrate a good differentiation ability between the two—similar in appearance—pigmented skin lesions. The results outperform those of a well-known texture analysis measure. Our work provides the first entropy measure studying colored images using both single and multi-channel approaches.     

天然彩棉与普通白棉中微量元素的比较研究

建立了微波消解电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定棉花中微量元素的方法,并用该法分别测定了天然彩棉和普通白棉中Ca,μg,Fe,Cu,Ba,Zn,Al,Sr,Mn和Si等元素的含量。该法检出限为0.9～21 μg·L-1,加标回收率为93%～111%,RSD<4.0%(n=5);研究结果表明天然彩棉中棕色彩棉和绿色彩棉中Ca,Cu,Zn,Al,Fe,Sr和Si等元素含量要明显高于普通白棉。文章的研究结果可为彩棉的显色原理研究以及真假彩棉的鉴定提供一定的科学依据。     

Dynamics of Stochastic Ginzburg-Landau Equations Driven by Colored Noise on Thin Domains

This work is concerned with the asymptotic behaviors of solutions to a class of non-autonomous stochastic Ginzburg-Landau equations driven by colored noise and deterministic non-autonomous terms defined on thin domains. The existence and uniqueness of tempered pullback random attractors are proved for the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau systems defined on $(n+1)$-dimensional narrow domain. Furthermore, the upper semicontinuity of these attractors is established, when a family of $(n+1)$-dimensional thin domains collapses onto an $n$-dimensional domain.     

Preparation of filled temperature-sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) gel beads

Temperature-sensitive filled poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) gel beads with diameters in the range of millimeters were prepared using the alginate technique. The polymerization and cross-linking reaction of NIPAAm in the presence of inorganic filling particles was performed in spherical networks of Ca-alginate forming interpenetrating networks (IPN). Thermo-sensitive gel beads could be obtained by washing these IPN with EDTA solution. The PNIPAAm gel beads were analyzed by optical methods to observe there swollen diameter in dependence on the temperature. The diameters of the swollen gel beads were in the range of 0.1 - 2 mm. The influence of the monomer to cross-linker ratio (MCR) and the filling materials (ferrofluid, BaTiO₃, TiO₂, and Ni,) were studied. The phase transition temperature (T_pt) was only weakly influenced by the MCR and the filling material remaining at around 34°C.     

Temperature-sensitive poly(vinyl methyl ether) hydrogel beads

Temperature-sensitive hydrogel beads were prepared by radiation crosslinking of poly(vinyl methyl ether) PVME spheres wrapped in Ca-alginate. The obtained gel beads have diameters in the sub-millimeter or millimeter range (depending on the PVME concentration). They were characterized by sol-gel analysis, swelling measurements, and differential scanning calorimetry. The gel content g increases with increasing radiation dose D. The swelling degree Q_v decreases with increasing PVME concentration c_p and increasing D. In comparison to PVME bulkgels the phase-transition temperature of the synthesized PVME gel beads is a little decreased.