Thamotharan B^1,*, Venkatraman B², Chandrasekaran S³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 335-340, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000156

Abstract Accumulation of impurities within cold trap device results in degradation of efficient performance in a nuclear reactor systems. The impurities have to be identified and the device has to be replaced periodically based on the accumulation level. Though there are a few techniques available to identify these impurities from the cold trap device, there are certain limitations in these techniques. In order to overcome these constraints, a new harmless and easy approach for identifying and separating the impurities using the radiographic images of cold traps is proposed in this paper. It includes a new segmentation More >

R.V.V. Krishna^1,*, S. Srinivas Kumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 281-290, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2019.100000121

Abstract In this paper, a color image segmentation algorithm is proposed by extracting both texture and color features and applying them to the one -against-all multi class support vector machine (MSVM) classifier for segmentation. Local Binary Pattern is used for extracting the textural features and L*a*b color model is used for obtaining the color features. The MSVM is trained using the samples obtained from a novel soft rough fuzzy c-means (SRFCM) clustering. The fuzzy set based membership functions capably handle the problem of overlapping clusters. The lower and upper approximation concepts of rough sets deal well More >

Yong Luo¹, Xiaojie Li², Chao Luo², Feng Wang¹, Xi Wu², Imran Mumtaz³, Cheng Yi^{1, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1771-1780, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010069 - 20 August 2020

Abstract Tissue segmentation is a fundamental and important task in nasopharyngeal images analysis. However, it is a challenging task to accurately and quickly segment various tissues in the nasopharynx region due to the small difference in gray value between tissues in the nasopharyngeal image and the complexity of the tissue structure. In this paper, we propose a novel tissue segmentation approach based on a two-stage learning framework and U-Net. In the proposed methodology, the network consists of two segmentation modules. The first module performs rough segmentation and the second module performs accurate segmentation. Considering the training… More >

Xu Han^{1, #}, Huijun Yang^{1, 4, *}, Qiufeng Shen^{1, #}, Jiangtao Yang², Huihui Liang¹, Cancan Bao¹, Shuang Cang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 579-596, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011262 - 23 July 2020

Abstract Although predecessors have made great contributions to the semantic segmentation of 3D indoor scenes, there still exist some challenges in the debris recognition of terrain data. Compared with hundreds of thousands of indoor point clouds, the amount of terrain point cloud is up to millions. Apart from that, terrain point cloud data obtained from remote sensing is measured in meters, but the indoor scene is measured in centimeters. In this case, the terrain debris obtained from remote sensing mapping only have dozens of points, which means that sufficient training information cannot be obtained only through… More >

Hui Li¹, Chengwei Pan^{2, 3}, Ziyi Chen¹, Aziguli Wulamu^{2, 3, *}, Alan Yang⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 563-578, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09806 - 23 July 2020

Abstract Ore image segmentation is a key step in an ore grain size analysis based on image processing. The traditional segmentation methods do not deal with ore textures and shadows in ore images well Those methods often suffer from under-segmentation and over-segmentation. In this article, in order to solve the problem, an ore image segmentation method based on U-Net is proposed. We adjust the structure of U-Net to speed up the processing, and we modify the loss function to enhance the generalization of the model. After the collection of the ore image, we design the annotation More >

Hade Mao^{1, 2}, Yuliang Liu^{1, 2, *}, Hongzhe Yan^{1, 2}, Cheng Qian³, Jing Xue⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 511-527, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09841 - 23 July 2020

Abstract To troubleshoot two problems arising from the segmentation of manganese nodule images-uneven illumination and morphological defects caused by white sand coverage, we propose, with reference to features of manganese nodules, a method called “background gray value calculation”. As the result of the image procession with the aid this method, the two problems above are solved eventually, together with acquisition of a segmentable image of manganese nodules. As a result, its comparison with other segmentation methods justifies its feasibility and stability. Judging from simulation results, it is indicated that this method is applicable to repair the More >

Yuheng Sun¹, Ye Mu^{1, 2, 3, 4, *}, Qin Feng⁵, Tianli Hu^{1, 2, 3, 4}, He Gong^{1, 2, 3, 4}, Shijun Li^{1, 2, 3, 4}, Jing Zhou⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1317-1328, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010510 - 10 June 2020

Abstract In large-scale deer farming image analysis, K-means or maximum betweenclass variance (Otsu) algorithms can be used to distinguish the deer from the background. However, in an actual breeding environment, the barbed wire or chain-link fencing has a certain isolating effect on the deer which greatly interferes with the identification of the individual deer. Also, when the target and background grey values are similar, the multiple background targets cannot be completely separated. To better identify the posture and behaviour of deer in a deer shed, we used digital image processing to separate the deer from the… More >

Yuanjing Luo¹, Jiaohua Qin^{1, *}, Xuyu Xiang¹, Yun Tan¹, Zhibin He¹, Neal N. Xiong²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1281-1295, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010867 - 10 June 2020

Abstract To resist the risk of the stego-image being maliciously altered during transmission, we propose a coverless image steganography method based on image segmentation. Most existing coverless steganography methods are based on whole feature mapping, which has poor robustness when facing geometric attacks, because the contents in the image are easy to lost. To solve this problem, we use ResNet to extract semantic features, and segment the object areas from the image through Mask RCNN for information hiding. These selected object areas have ethical structural integrity and are not located in the visual center of the… More >

A. Renugambal^{1, *}, K. Selva Bhuvaneswari²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 681-700, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09519 - 10 June 2020

Abstract In this study, a novel hybrid Water Cycle Moth-Flame Optimization (WCMFO) algorithm is proposed for multilevel thresholding brain image segmentation in Magnetic Resonance (MR) image slices. WCMFO constitutes a hybrid between the two techniques, comprising the water cycle and moth-flame optimization algorithms. The optimal thresholds are obtained by maximizing the between class variance (Otsu’s function) of the image. To test the performance of threshold searching process, the proposed algorithm has been evaluated on standard benchmark of ten axial T₂-weighted brain MR images for image segmentation. The experimental outcomes infer that it produces better optimal threshold values… More >

Mei Yang¹, Yuanjie Zheng^{1, 2, *}, Weikuan Jia^{1, *, Yunlong He3, Tongtong Che1, Jinyu Cong1}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1485-1498, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09940 - 30 April 2020

Abstract Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is very important in medicine and provide useful diagnostic information. Measuring retinal layer thicknesses plays a vital role in pathophysiologic factors of many ocular conditions. Among the existing retinal layer segmentation approaches, learning or deep learning-based methods belong to the state-of-art. However, most of these techniques rely on manual-marked layers and the performances are limited due to the image quality. In order to overcome this limitation, we build a framework based on gray value curve matching, which uses depth learning to match the curve for semi-automatic segmentation of retinal layers from More >