scholarly journals Facial Paralysis Detection in Infrared Thermal Images Using Asymmetry Analysis of Temperature and Texture Features

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2309
Author(s):  
Xulong Liu ◽  
Yanli Wang ◽  
Jingmin Luan

Facial temperature distribution in healthy people shows contralateral symmetry, which is generally disrupted by facial paralysis. This study aims to develop a quantitative thermal asymmetry analysis method for early diagnosis of facial paralysis in infrared thermal images. First, to improve the reliability of thermal image analysis, the facial regions of interest (ROIs) were segmented using corner and edge detection. A new temperature feature was then defined using the maximum and minimum temperature, and it was combined with the texture feature to represent temperature distribution of facial ROIs. Finally, Minkowski distance was used to measure feature symmetry of bilateral ROIs. The feature symmetry vectors were input into support vector machine to evaluate the degree of facial thermal symmetry. The results showed that there were significant differences in thermal symmetry between patients with facial paralysis and healthy people. The accuracy of the proposed method for early diagnosis of facial paralysis was 0.933, and the area under the ROC curve was 0.947. In conclusion, temperature and texture features can effectively quantify thermal asymmetry caused by facial paralysis, and the application of machine learning in early detection of facial paralysis in thermal images is feasible.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Gulivindala Suresh ◽  
Chanamallu Srinivasa Rao

Copy-move forgery (CMF) is an established process to copy an image segment and pastes it within the same image to hide or duplicate a portion of the image. Several CMF detection techniques are available; however, better detection accuracy with low feature vector is always substantial. For this, differential excitation component (DEC) of Weber Law descriptor in combination with the gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) approach of texture feature extraction for CMFD is proposed. GLCM Texture features are computed in four directions on DEC and this acts as a feature vector for support vector machine classifier. These texture features are more distinguishable and it is validated through other two proposed methods based on discrete wavelet transform-GLCM (DWT-GLCM) and GLCM. Experimentation is carried out on CoMoFoD and CASIA databases to validate the efficacy of proposed methods. Proposed methods exhibit resilience against many post-processing attacks. Comparative analysis with existing methods shows the superiority of the proposed method (DEC-GLCM) with regard to detection accuracy.


Author(s):  
Ann Nosseir ◽  
Seif Eldin A. Ahmed

Having a system that classifies different types of fruits and identifies the quality of fruits will be of a value in various areas especially in an area of mass production of fruits’ products. This paper presents a novel system that differentiates between four fruits types and identifies the decayed ones from the fresh. The algorithms used are based on the colour and the texture features of the fruits’ images. The algorithms extract the RGB values and the first statistical order and second statistical of the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) values. To segregate between the fruits’ types, Fine, Medium, Coarse, Cosine, Cubic, and Weighted K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms are applied. The accuracy percentages of each are 96.3%, 93.8%, 25%, 83.8%, 90%, and 95% respectively.  These steps are tested with 46 pictures taken from a mobile phone of seasonal fruits at the time i.e., banana, apple, and strawberry. All types were accurately identifying.  To tell apart the decayed fruits from the fresh, the linear and quadratic Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms differentiated between them based on the colour segmentation and the texture feature algorithms values of each fruit image. The accuracy of the linear SVM is 96% and quadratic SVM 98%.


Author(s):  
Marios Neofytou ◽  
Constantinos Pattichis ◽  
Vasilios Tanos ◽  
Marios Pattichis ◽  
Eftyvoulos Kyriacou

The objective of this chapter is to propose a quantitative hysteroscopy imaging analysis system in gynaecological cancer and to provide the current situation about endoscopy imaging. Recently works, involves endoscopy, gastroendoscopy, and colonoscopy imaging with encouraging results. All the methods are using image processing using texture and classification algorithms supporting the physician diagnosis. But none of the studies were involved with the pre-processing module. Also, the above studies are trying to identify tumours in the organs and no of the are investigates the tissue texture. The system supports a standardized image acquisition protocol that eliminates significant statistical feature differences due to viewing variations. In particular, the authors provide a standardized protocol that provides texture features that are statistically invariant to variations to sensor differences (color correction), angle and distance to the tissue. Also, a Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) module that supports the classification of normal vs abnormal tissue of early diagnosis in gynaecological cancer of the endometrium is discussed. The authors investigate texture feature variability for the aforementioned targets encountered in clinical endoscopy before and after color correction. For texture feature analysis, three different features sets were considered: (i) Statistical Features, (ii) Spatial Gray Level Dependence Matrices, and (iii) Gray Level Difference Statistics. Two classification algorithms, the Probabilistic Neural Network and the Support Vector Machine, were applied for the early diagnosis of gynaecological cancer of the endometrium based on the above texture features. Results indicate that there is no significant difference in texture features between the panoramic and close up views and between different camera angles. The gamma correction provided an acquired image that was a significantly better approximation to the original tissue image color. Based on the texture features, the classification algorithms results show that the correct classification score, %CC=79 was achieved using the SVM algorithm in the YCrCb color system with the combination of the SF and GLDS texture feature sets. This study provides a standardized quantitative image analysis protocol for endoscopy imaging. Also the proposed CAD system gave very satisfactory and promising results. Concluding, the proposed system can assist the physician in the diagnosis of difficult cases of gynaecological cancer, before the histopathological examination.


2007 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUOYUAN LIANG ◽  
KA KEUNG LEE ◽  
YANGSHENG XU

Crowd density estimation is very important for intelligent surveillance systems in public places. This paper presents an automatic method of estimating crowd density using texture analysis and machine learning. First the crowd scene is modeled as a series of multi-resolution image cells based on perspective projection. The cell size is normalized to obtain a uniform representation of texture features. Then the feature vectors of textures are extracted from each input image cell and the support vector machine (SVM) method is utilized to solve the regression problem for calculating the crowd density. In order to diminish the instability of texture feature measurements, a technique of searching the extrema in the Harris–Laplacian space is applied. Finally, the SVM method is used again to detect some abnormal situations caused by the changes in density distribution. Experiments on real crowd videos show the effectiveness of the proposed system.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mengjie Wang ◽  
Weiyang Chen

BACKGROUND: Age is an essential feature of people, so the study of facial aging should have particular significance. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to improve the performance of age prediction by combining facial landmarks and texture features. METHODS: We first measure the distribution of each texture feature. From a geometric point of view, facial feature points will change with age, so it is essential to study facial feature points. We annotate the facial feature points, label the corresponding feature point coordinates, and then use the coordinates of feature points and texture features to predict the age. RESULTS: We use the Support Vector Machine regression prediction method to predict the age based on the extracted texture features and landmarks. Compared with facial texture features, the prediction results based on facial landmarks are better. This suggests that the facial morphological features contained in facial landmarks can reflect facial age better than facial texture features. Combined with facial landmarks and texture features, the performance of age prediction can be improved. CONCLUSIONS: According to the experimental results, we can conclude that texture features combined with facial landmarks are useful for age prediction.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Si ◽  
Zhongbin Wang ◽  
Yiwen Liu ◽  
Chao Tan

In order to achieve accurate identification of a shearer cutting state, infrared thermal images were creatively adopted in this paper. As the position of a shearer cutting unit is constantly changing, and the temperature in the vicinity is obviously distinct, mathematical morphology theory was used to detect the cutting unit in an infrared thermal image. Furthermore, a target tracking method is put forward to achieve cutting unit tracking based on the combination of morphology and a spatio-temporal context (STC) algorithm. Then, the temperature field features of this tracking area were extracted, and an intelligent classifier based on a support vector machine (SVM) was constructed to identify the cutting state of the shearer. Some experiments are presented, and the results indicate the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method.


Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1527
Author(s):  
Xi Pan ◽  
Kang Li ◽  
Zhangjing Chen ◽  
Zhong Yang

Identifying wood accurately and rapidly is one of the best ways to prevent wood product fakes and adulterants in forestry products. Wood identification traditionally relies heavily on special experts that spend extensive time in the laboratory. A new method is proposed that uses near-infrared (NIR) spectra at a wavelength of 780–2300 nm incorporated with the gray-level co-occurrence (GLCM) texture feature to accurately and rapidly identify timbers. The NIR spectral features were determined by principal component analysis (PCA), and the digital image features extracted with the GLCM were used to create a support vector machine (SVM) model to identify the timbers. The results from fusion features of raw spectra and four GLCM features of 25 timbers showed that identification accuracy by the model was 99.43%. A sample anisotropy and heterogeneity comparative analysis revealed that the wood identification information from the transverse surface had more characteristics than that from the tangential and radial surfaces. Furthermore, short-wavelength pre-processed NIR bands of 780–1100 nm and 1100–2300 nm realized high identification accuracy of 99.43% and 100%, respectively. The four GLCM features were effective for improving identification accuracy by improving the data spatial clustering features.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-234
Author(s):  
Junbiao Xu ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Zhang Zhang ◽  
Wen Jiang ◽  
Liwen Chong

This article proposes a detection method based on thermal imaging for lead acid-battery leakage. First of all, thermal images were obtained by scanning the lead acid-battery with an infrared camera, and the images were categorized into the two sets of train and test. Then, two methods were introduced to analyze the thermal images to determine whether there was a leakage in the battery. One method used Support Vector Machine (SVM) to train the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) texture features of the images. The other method used deep learning to detect images, and trained the obtained data by DenseNet. The results demonstrate that the two methods are accurate, and show feasibility of thermal imaging to detect lead acid-battery leakage.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Wang ◽  
Liqing Fang

Effectively classify the fault types and the degradation degree of a rolling bearing is an important basis for accurate malfunction detection. A novel feature extract method - bispectrum image texture features manifold (BTM) of the rolling bearing vibration signal is proposed in this paper. The BTM method is realized by three main steps: bispectrum image analysis, texture feature construction and manifold feature dimensionality reduction. In this method, bispectrum analysis is employed to convert the mass vibration signals into bispectrum contour map, the typical texture features were extracted from the contour map by gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), then the manifold dimensionality reduction method liner local tangent space alignment (LLTSA) is used to remove redundant information and reduce the dimension from the extracted texture features and obtain more meaningful low-dimensional information. Furthermore, the low-dimensional texture features were identified by support vector machine (SVM) which was optimized by genetic optimization algorithm (GA). The validity of BTM is confirmed by rolling bear experiments, the result show that the proposed feature extraction method can accurately distinguish different fault types and have a good performance to classify the degradation degree of inner race fault, outer race fault and rolling ball fault.


2011 ◽  
pp. 949-964
Author(s):  
Marios Neofytou ◽  
Constantinos Pattichis ◽  
Vasilios Tanos ◽  
Marios Pattichis ◽  
Eftyvoulos Kyriacou

The objective of this chapter is to propose a quantitative hysteroscopy imaging analysis system in gynaecological cancer and to provide the current situation about endoscopy imaging. Recently works, involves endoscopy, gastroendoscopy, and colonoscopy imaging with encouraging results. All the methods are using image processing using texture and classification algorithms supporting the physician diagnosis. But none of the studies were involved with the pre-processing module. Also, the above studies are trying to identify tumours in the organs and no of the are investigates the tissue texture. The system supports a standardized image acquisition protocol that eliminates significant statistical feature differences due to viewing variations. In particular, the authors provide a standardized protocol that provides texture features that are statistically invariant to variations to sensor differences (color correction), angle and distance to the tissue. Also, a Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) module that supports the classification of normal vs abnormal tissue of early diagnosis in gynaecological cancer of the endometrium is discussed. The authors investigate texture feature variability for the aforementioned targets encountered in clinical endoscopy before and after color correction. For texture feature analysis, three different features sets were considered: (i) Statistical Features, (ii) Spatial Gray Level Dependence Matrices, and (iii) Gray Level Difference Statistics. Two classification algorithms, the Probabilistic Neural Network and the Support Vector Machine, were applied for the early diagnosis of gynaecological cancer of the endometrium based on the above texture features. Results indicate that there is no significant difference in texture features between the panoramic and close up views and between different camera angles. The gamma correction provided an acquired image that was a significantly better approximation to the original tissue image color. Based on the texture features, the classification algorithms results show that the correct classification score, %CC=79 was achieved using the SVM algorithm in the YCrCb color system with the combination of the SF and GLDS texture feature sets. This study provides a standardized quantitative image analysis protocol for endoscopy imaging. Also the proposed CAD system gave very satisfactory and promising results. Concluding, the proposed system can assist the physician in the diagnosis of difficult cases of gynaecological cancer, before the histopathological examination.


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