CT and MRI Medical Image Fusion Using Noise-Removal and Contrast Enhancement Scheme with Convolutional Neural Network

Medical image fusion (MIF) has received painstaking attention due to its diverse medical applications in response to accurately diagnosing clinical images. Numerous MIF methods have been proposed to date, but the fused image suffers from poor contrast, non-uniform illumination, noise presence, and improper fusion strategies, resulting in an inadequate sparse representation of significant features. This paper proposes the morphological preprocessing method to address the non-uniform illumination and noise by the bottom-hat–top-hat strategy. Then, grey-principal component analysis (grey-PCA) is used to transform RGB images into gray images that can preserve detailed features. After that, the local shift-invariant shearlet transform (LSIST) method decomposes the images into the low-pass (LP) and high-pass (HP) sub-bands, efficiently restoring all significant characteristics in various scales and directions. The HP sub-bands are fed to two branches of the Siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) by process of feature detection, initial segmentation, and consistency verification to effectively capture smooth edges, and textures. While the LP sub-bands are fused by employing local energy fusion using the averaging and selection mode to restore the energy information. The proposed method is validated by subjective and objective quality assessments. The subjective evaluation is conducted by a user case study in which twelve field specialists verified the superiority of the proposed method based on precise details, image contrast, noise in the fused image, and no loss of information. The supremacy of the proposed method is further justified by obtaining 0.6836 to 0.8794, 0.5234 to 0.6710, and 3.8501 to 8.7937 gain for QFAB, CRR, and AG and noise reduction from 0.3397 to 0.1209 over other methods for objective parameters.     

Lixiscope及几种材料的X射线吸收特性研究

介绍Lixiscope及模拟系统,测量了钛片(Ti)、玻璃板、镍片(Ni)和铝片(Al)对峰值能量为40keV的X射线的吸收持性,指出平板式X射线像增强器输入窗口材料选择的原则。     

Creep deformation measurement using quartz optical fiber

This paper describes an optical system for high temperature creep strain measurement using quartz optical fiber, super long working distance microscope and digital image processing techniques. In this system one end of the quartz optical fibers is arrayed in a small area on the specimen surface and the other end is illuminated by a laser beam. The fiber ends on the specimen surface form the spot array. The small optical spots on the specimen are tracked by a CCD camera and the images are processed by digital image processing software. The diameter of each quartz fiber is 100 μm and the fibers can be arrayed in a small area. The local strains are determined by measuring the variety of relative distance between two spots. Experimental results of local creep strain on the welding joints of 15CrMo and HK40 at 850°C are obtained.     

Approach to Generate Radiometric Images

A new technique to generate radiometric images from the optical images is introduced in this paper. This technique can be applied in generating the source images for purpose of image-matching navigation. For comparison, two radiometric images are presents, one is imaged by a 8mm ground-based radiometer and the other is generated by this technique.     

基于边缘软判决的小波域自适应图像去噪

提出了一个新的图像去噪方法。该方法基于非抽样小波变换的多分辨分解,在各尺度下对小波系数进行了边缘和非边缘分类,并根据它们的不同统计特性运用了不同的估计技术。鉴于边缘分类的不确定性,提出了依概率的软分类技术,通过计算边缘发生的概率,判决当前系数应该采用哪一种估计。仿真结果表明:该方法在滤除图像噪声的同时,边缘得到了保持,较目前存在的一些方法更具有优越性。     

OTR渡越辐射束流测量中的CCD相机系统设计

本文针对OTR束流测量中用到的CCD相机系统,介绍了OTR束流测量的基本原理以及利用专用CCD芯片ICX208CL和AD9929在束测系统中关键部分相机系统设计中的应用,并对ICX208CL和AD9929进行了较为详细的介绍。     

Use of rigid-body motion for the investigation and estimation of the measurement errors related to digital image correlation technique

The aim of this work is to investigate the sources of errors related to digital image correlation (DIC) technique applied to strain measurements. The knowledge of such information is important before the measured kinematic fields can be exploited. After recalling the principle of DIC, some sources of errors related to this technique are listed. Both numerical and experimental tests, based on rigid-body motion, are proposed. These tests are simple and easy-to-implement. They permit to quickly assess the errors related to lighting, the optical lens (distortion), the CCD sensor, the out-of-plane displacement, the speckle pattern, the grid pitch, the size of the subset and the correlation algorithm. The errors sources that cannot be uncoupled were estimated by amplifying their contribution to the global error. The obtained results permit to address a classification of the error related to the used equipment. The paper ends by some suggestions proposed in order to minimize the errors.     

部分相干光学系统最佳象面的性质讨论

在部分相干理论的基础上,分别用表观传递函数和能量分布作评价指标,计算了部分相干光学系统的最佳象面位置,并讨论了其与相干度、空间频率及象差的关系。     

Generalization of Strang's Preconditioner with Applications to Toeplitz Least Squares Problems

In this paper, we propose a method to generalize Strang's circulant preconditioner for arbitrary n-by-n matrices A_n. The th column of our circulant preconditioner Sn is equal to the th column of the given matrix A_n. Thus if A_n is a square Toeplitz matrix, then Sn is just the Strang circulant preconditioner. When Sn is not Hermitian, our circulant preconditioner can be defined as . This construction is similar to the forward-backward projection method used in constructing preconditioners for tomographic inversion problems in medical imaging. We show that if the matrix A_n has decaying coefficients away from the main diagonal, then is a good preconditioner for An. Comparisons of our preconditioner with other circulant-based preconditioners are carried out for some 1-D Toeplitz least squares problems: min ∥ b - Ax∥₂. Preliminary numerical results show that our preconditioner performs quite well, in comparison to other circulant preconditioners. Promising test results are also reported for a 2-D deconvolution problem arising in ground-based atmospheric imaging.     

使用CCD测量玻璃管内液体界面位置的灵巧测量头

本文介绍一种使用线阵ＣＣＤ进行玻璃管内液位测量的光电测量头。与其他ＣＣＤ尺寸测量的光学系统不同，本文依据不同的液体具有不同的折射率，提出利用柱形容器中液体的聚光特性，得到两种不同液体的分界面在线阵ＣＣＤ上清晰的像。