Prabakaran Rajamanickam¹, Shiloah Elizabeth Darmanayagam^1,*, Sunil Retmin Raj Cyril Raj²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 709-722, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014347

Abstract Liver Segmentation is one of the challenging tasks in detecting and classifying liver tumors from Computed Tomography (CT) images. The segmentation of hepatic organ is more intricate task, owing to the fact that it possesses a sizeable quantum of vascularization. This paper proposes an algorithm for automatic seed point selection using energy feature for use in level set algorithm for segmentation of liver region in CT scans. The effectiveness of the method can be determined when used in a model to classify the liver CT images as tumorous or not. This involves segmentation of the region of interest (ROI) from… More >

Mohammad Masroor Ahmed^1,*, Saleh Al Shehri², Jawad Usman Arshed³, Mahmood Ul Hassan⁴, Muzammil Hussain⁵, Mehtab Afzal⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 171-185, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014141

Abstract Spatially Constrained Mixture Model (SCMM) is an image segmentation model that works over the framework of maximum a-posteriori and Markov Random Field (MAP-MRF). It developed its own maximization step to be used within this framework. This research has proposed an improvement in the SCMM’s maximization step for segmenting simulated brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). The improved model is named as the Weighted Spatially Constrained Finite Mixture Model (WSCFMM). To compare the performance of SCMM and WSCFMM, simulated T1-Weighted normal MRIs were segmented. A region of interest (ROI) was extracted from segmented images. The similarity level between the extracted ROI and… More >

Mavra Mehmood¹, Ember Ayub¹, Fahad Ahmad^1,6,*, Madallah Alruwaili², Ziyad A. Alrowaili³, Saad Alanazi², Mamoona Humayun², Muhammad Rizwan¹, Shahid Naseem⁴, Tahir Alyas⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 641-657, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013774

Abstract Clinical image processing plays a significant role in healthcare systems and is currently a widely used methodology. In carcinogenic diseases, time is crucial; thus, an image’s accurate analysis can help treat disease at an early stage. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) are common types of malignancies that affect both women and men. The number of cases of DCIS and LCIS has increased every year since 2002, while it still takes a considerable amount of time to recommend a controlling technique. Image processing is a powerful technique to analyze preprocessed images to retrieve useful information… More >

Dildar Hussain¹, Rizwan Ali Naqvi², Woong-Kee Loh³, Jooyoung Lee^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2587-2598, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013031

Abstract Many existing techniques to acquire dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images are unable to accurately distinguish between bone and soft tissue. For the most part, this failure stems from bone shape variability, noise and low contrast in DXA images, inconsistent X-ray beam penetration producing shadowing effects, and person-to-person variations. This work explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art deep learning semantic segmentation models, fully convolutional networks (FCNs), SegNet, and U-Net to distinguish femur bone from soft tissue. We investigated the performance of deep learning algorithms with reference to some of our previously applied conventional image segmentation techniques (i.e., a decision-tree-based method using… More >

H. Asha Gnana Priya¹, J. Anitha¹, Daniela Elena Popescu², Anju Asokan¹, D. Jude Hemanth¹, Le Hoang Son^3,4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2771-2786, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012907

Abstract Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is an eye disease that mainly affects people with diabetes. People affected by DR start losing their vision from an early stage even though the symptoms are identified only at the later stage. Once the vision is lost, it cannot be regained but can be prevented from causing any further damage. Early diagnosis of DR is required for preventing vision loss, for which a trained ophthalmologist is required. The clinical practice is time-consuming and is not much successful in identifying DR at early stages. Hence, Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system is a suitable alternative for screening and grading… More >

Ihsan Jasim Hussein¹, M. A. Burhanuddin², Mazin Abed Mohammed^3,*, Mohamed Elhoseny⁴, Begonya Garcia-Zapirain⁵, Marwah Suliman Maashi⁶, Mashael S. Maashi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3161-3182, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012691

Abstract One of the most complex tasks for computer-aided diagnosis (Intelligent decision support system) is the segmentation of lesions. Thus, this study proposes a new fully automated method for the segmentation of ovarian and breast ultrasound images. The main contributions of this research is the development of a novel Viola–James model capable of segmenting the ultrasound images of breast and ovarian cancer cases. In addition, proposed an approach that can efficiently generate region-of-interest (ROI) and new features that can be used in characterizing lesion boundaries. This study uses two databases in training and testing the proposed segmentation approach. The breast cancer… More >

Mangena Venu Madhavan¹, Dang Ngoc Hoang Thanh², Aditya Khamparia^1,*, Sagar Pande¹, Rahul Malik¹, Deepak Gupta³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2939-2955, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012466

Abstract Disease recognition in plants is one of the essential problems in agricultural image processing. This article focuses on designing a framework that can recognize and classify diseases on pomegranate plants exactly. The framework utilizes image processing techniques such as image acquisition, image resizing, image enhancement, image segmentation, ROI extraction (region of interest), and feature extraction. An image dataset related to pomegranate leaf disease is utilized to implement the framework, divided into a training set and a test set. In the implementation process, techniques such as image enhancement and image segmentation are primarily used for identifying ROI and features. An image… More >

Meera Radhakrishnan^1,*, Anandan Panneerselvam², Nandhagopal Nachimuthu³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1185-1199, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.012069

Abstract Image segmentation is a crucial stage in the investigation of medical images and is predominantly implemented in various medical applications. In the case of investigating MRI brain images, the image segmentation is mainly employed to measure and visualize the anatomic structure of the brain that underwent modifications to delineate the regions. At present, distinct segmentation approaches with various degrees of accurateness and complexities are available. But, it needs tuning of various parameters to obtain optimal results. The tuning of parameters can be considered as an optimization issue using a similarity function in solution space. This paper presents a new Parametric… More >

Aziguli Wulamu^1,2,*, Jingyue Sang³, Dezheng Zhang^1,2, Zuxian Shi^1,2

Journal of New Media, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 149-155, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2020.014115

Abstract Cultivated land extraction is essential for sustainable development and agriculture. In this paper, the network we propose is based on the encoderdecoder structure, which extracts the semantic segmentation neural network of cultivated land from satellite images and uses it for agricultural automation solutions. The encoder consists of two part: the first is the modified Xception, it can used as the feature extraction network, and the second is the atrous convolution, it can used to expand the receptive field and the context information to extract richer feature information. The decoder part uses the conventional upsampling operation to restore the original resolution.… More >

Ayyaz Hussain¹, Mohammed Alawairdhi², Fayez Alazemi³, Sajid Ali Khan⁴, Muhammad Ramzan^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.5, pp. 857-871, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010120

Abstract The Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems are gaining more recognition and being used as an aid by clinicians for detection and interpretation of diseases every passing day due to their increasing accuracy and reliability. The lung(s) nodule detection is a very crucial and difficult step for CAD systems. In this paper, a hybrid approach for the lung nodule detection using a deformable model and distance transform has been proposed. The proposed method has the ability to detect all major kinds of nodules such as the juxta-plueral, isolated, and the juxta-vescular, along with the non-solid nodules automatically and intelligently. Results show… More >