scholarly journals TISNet-Enhanced Fully Convolutional Network with Encoder-Decoder Structure for Tongue Image Segmentation in Traditional Chinese Medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Huang ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Li Zhuo ◽  
Xiaoguang Li ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Receptive Field ◽  
Positional Information ◽  
Dice Similarity Coefficient ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Feature Pyramid

Extracting the tongue body accurately from a digital tongue image is a challenge for automated tongue diagnoses, as the blurred edge of the tongue body, interference of pathological details, and the huge difference in the size and shape of the tongue. In this study, an automated tongue image segmentation method using enhanced fully convolutional network with encoder-decoder structure was presented. In the frame of the proposed network, the deep residual network was adopted as an encoder to obtain dense feature maps, and a Receptive Field Block was assembled behind the encoder. Receptive Field Block can capture adequate global contextual prior because of its structure of the multibranch convolution layers with varying kernels. Moreover, the Feature Pyramid Network was used as a decoder to fuse multiscale feature maps for gathering sufficient positional information to recover the clear contour of the tongue body. The quantitative evaluation of the segmentation results of 300 tongue images from the SIPL-tongue dataset showed that the average Hausdorff Distance, average Symmetric Mean Absolute Surface Distance, average Dice Similarity Coefficient, average precision, average sensitivity, and average specificity were 11.2963, 3.4737, 97.26%, 95.66%, 98.97%, and 98.68%, respectively. The proposed method achieved the best performance compared with the other four deep-learning-based segmentation methods (including SegNet, FCN, PSPNet, and DeepLab v3+). There were also similar results on the HIT-tongue dataset. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method can achieve accurate tongue image segmentation and meet the practical requirements of automated tongue diagnoses.

High-accuracy image segmentation for lactating sows using a fully convolutional network

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqing Yang ◽  
Huasheng Huang ◽  
Chan Zheng ◽  
Xunmu Zhu ◽  
Xiaofan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Lactating Sows

scholarly journals An Ore Image Segmentation Method Based on RDU-Net Model

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4979
Author(s):  
Dong Xiao ◽  
Xiwen Liu ◽  
Ba Tuan Le ◽  
Zhiwen Ji ◽  
Xiaoyu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Fragment Size ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Residual Structure ◽  
Production Safety ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Main Index

The ore fragment size on the conveyor belt of concentrators is not only the main index to verify the crushing process, but also affects the production efficiency, operation cost and even production safety of the mine. In order to get the size of ore fragments on the conveyor belt, the image segmentation method is a convenient and fast choice. However, due to the influence of dust, light and uneven color and texture, the traditional ore image segmentation methods are prone to oversegmentation and undersegmentation. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes an ore image segmentation model called RDU-Net (R: residual connection; DU: DUNet), which combines the residual structure of convolutional neural network with DUNet model, greatly improving the accuracy of image segmentation. RDU-Net can adaptively adjust the receptive field according to the size and shape of different ore fragments, capture the ore edge of different shape and size, and realize the accurate segmentation of ore image. The experimental results show that compared with other U-Net and DUNet, the RDU-Net has significantly improved segmentation accuracy, and has better generalization ability, which can fully meet the requirements of ore fragment size detection in the concentrator.

scholarly journals Image Segmentation Methods for Flood Monitoring System

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1825
Author(s):  
Nur Muhadi ◽  
Ahmad Abdullah ◽  
Siti Bejo ◽  
Muhammad Mahadi ◽  
Ana Mijic
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Jaccard Index ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Dice Similarity Coefficient ◽  
Hybrid Technique ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Flood Monitoring

Flood disasters are considered annual disasters in Malaysia due to their consistent occurrence. They are among the most dangerous disasters in the country. Lack of data during flood events is the main constraint to improving flood monitoring systems. With the rapid development of information technology, flood monitoring systems using a computer vision approach have gained attention over the last decade. Computer vision requires an image segmentation technique to understand the content of the image and to facilitate analysis. Various segmentation algorithms have been developed to improve results. This paper presents a comparative study of image segmentation techniques used in extracting water information from digital images. The segmentation methods were evaluated visually and statistically. To evaluate the segmentation methods statistically, the dice similarity coefficient and the Jaccard index were calculated to measure the similarity between the segmentation results and the ground truth images. Based on the experimental results, the hybrid technique obtained the highest values among the three methods, yielding an average of 97.70% for the dice score and 95.51% for the Jaccard index. Therefore, we concluded that the hybrid technique is a promising segmentation method compared to the others in extracting water features from digital images.

scholarly journals Fully convolutional network for rice seedling and weed image segmentation at the seedling stage in paddy fields

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e0215676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Ma ◽  
Xiangwu Deng ◽  
Long Qi ◽  
Yu Jiang ◽  
Hongwei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Rice Seedling ◽  
Seedling Stage ◽  
Paddy Fields ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network

Research on Threshold Segmentation Algorithms

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 2888-2891
Author(s):  
Yu Bing Dong ◽  
Ming Jing Li ◽  
Ying Sun
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Threshold Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Algorithms ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Iterative Threshold

Thresholding is one of the critical steps in pattern recognition and has a significant effect on the upcoming steps of image application, the important objectives of thresholding are as follows, and separating objects from background, decreasing the capacity of data consequently increases speed. Various threshold segmentation methods are studied. These methods are compared by using MATLAB7.0. The qualities of image segmentation are elaborated. The results show that iterative threshold segmentation method is better than others.

scholarly journals A Novel Brain Image Segmentation Method Using an Improved 3D U-Net Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zhuqing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Medical Image Segmentation ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Three Dimensional Segmentation

Medical image segmentation (IS) is a research field in image processing. Deep learning methods are used to automatically segment organs, tissues, or tumor regions in medical images, which can assist doctors in diagnosing diseases. Since most IS models based on convolutional neural network (CNN) are two-dimensional models, they are not suitable for three-dimensional medical imaging. On the contrary, the three-dimensional segmentation model has problems such as complex network structure and large amount of calculation. Therefore, this study introduces the self-excited compressed dilated convolution (SECDC) module on the basis of the 3D U-Net network and proposes an improved 3D U-Net network model. In the SECDC module, the calculation amount of the model can be reduced by 1 × 1 × 1 convolution. Combining normal convolution and cavity convolution with an expansion rate of 2 can dig out the multiview features of the image. At the same time, the 3D squeeze-and-excitation (3D-SE) module can realize automatic learning of the importance of each layer. The experimental results on the BraTS2019 dataset show that the Dice coefficient and other indicators obtained by the model used in this paper indicate that the overall tumor can reach 0.87, the tumor core can reach 0.84, and the most difficult to segment enhanced tumor can reach 0.80. From the evaluation indicators, it can be analyzed that the improved 3D U-Net model used can greatly reduce the amount of data while achieving better segmentation results, and the model has better robustness. This model can meet the clinical needs of brain tumor segmentation methods.

scholarly journals Class-Wise Fully Convolutional Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3211
Author(s):  
Tian Tian ◽  
Zhengquan Chu ◽  
Qian Hu ◽  
Li Ma
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Interpretation ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Semantic Labeling ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Semantic Label

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in remote sensing image interpretation, which aims to assign a semantic label for every pixel in the given image. Accurate semantic segmentation is still challenging due to the complex distributions of various ground objects. With the development of deep learning, a series of segmentation networks represented by fully convolutional network (FCN) has made remarkable progress on this problem, but the segmentation accuracy is still far from expectations. This paper focuses on the importance of class-specific features of different land cover objects, and presents a novel end-to-end class-wise processing framework for segmentation. The proposed class-wise FCN (C-FCN) is shaped in the form of an encoder-decoder structure with skip-connections, in which the encoder is shared to produce general features for all categories and the decoder is class-wise to process class-specific features. To be detailed, class-wise transition (CT), class-wise up-sampling (CU), class-wise supervision (CS), and class-wise classification (CC) modules are designed to achieve the class-wise transfer, recover the resolution of class-wise feature maps, bridge the encoder and modified decoder, and implement class-wise classifications, respectively. Class-wise and group convolutions are adopted in the architecture with regard to the control of parameter numbers. The method is tested on the public ISPRS 2D semantic labeling benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed C-FCN significantly improves the segmentation performances compared with many state-of-the-art FCN-based networks, revealing its potentials on accurate segmentation of complex remote sensing images.

scholarly journals Scale Invariant Fully Convolutional Network: Detecting Hands Efficiently

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 4344-4351
Author(s):  
Dan Liu ◽  
Dawei Du ◽  
Libo Zhang ◽  
Tiejian Luo ◽  
Yanjun Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detection Methods ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Hand Detection ◽  
Scale Invariant ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Extraction Region ◽  
Region Detection ◽  
Weighted Fusion ◽  
Intermediate Layers

Existing hand detection methods usually follow the pipeline of multiple stages with high computation cost, i.e., feature extraction, region proposal, bounding box regression, and additional layers for rotated region detection. In this paper, we propose a new Scale Invariant Fully Convolutional Network (SIFCN) trained in an end-to-end fashion to detect hands efficiently. Specifically, we merge the feature maps from high to low layers in an iterative way, which handles different scales of hands better with less time overhead comparing to concatenating them simply. Moreover, we develop the Complementary Weighted Fusion (CWF) block to make full use of the distinctive features among multiple layers to achieve scale invariance. To deal with rotated hand detection, we present the rotation map to get rid of complex rotation and derotation layers. Besides, we design the multi-scale loss scheme to accelerate the training process significantly by adding supervision to the intermediate layers of the network. Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, our algorithm shows comparable accuracy and runs a 4.23 times faster speed on the VIVA dataset and achieves better average precision on Oxford hand detection dataset at a speed of 62.5 fps.

Multi-level Image Segmentation using Randomized Spiral-based Whale Optimization Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basu Dev Shivahare ◽  
S.K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Whale Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Whale Optimization ◽  
Novel Variant ◽  
Multiple Regions ◽  
Multi Level

Abstract: Segmenting an image into multiple regions is a pre-processing phase of computer vision. For the same, determining an optimal set of thresholds is challenging problem. This paper introduces a novel multi-level thresholding based image segmentation method. The presented method uses a novel variant of whale optimization algorithm to determine the optimal thresholds. For experimental validation of the proposed variant, twenty-three benchmark functions are considered. To analysis the efficacy of new multi-level image segmentation method, images from Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark (BSDS300) have been considered and tested against recent multi-level image segmentation methods. The segmentation results are validated in terms of subjective and objective evaluation. Experiments arm that the presented method is efficient and competitive than the existing multi-level image segmentation methods

Deep Learning Models for Semantic Multi-Modal Medical Image Segmentation

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-30
Author(s):  
V. R. S. Mani
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Medical Image Segmentation ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Fully Convolutional Network ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Application Methods ◽  
Segmentation Task

In this chapter, the author paints a comprehensive picture of different deep learning models used in different multi-modal image segmentation tasks. This chapter is an introduction for those new to the field, an overview for those working in the field, and a reference for those searching for literature on a specific application. Methods are classified according to the different types of multi-modal images and the corresponding types of convolution neural networks used in the segmentation task. The chapter starts with an introduction to CNN topology and describes various models like Hyper Dense Net, Organ Attention Net, UNet, VNet, Dilated Fully Convolutional Network, Transfer Learning, etc.

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