Xue Li, Hongying Zhang^*, Zixun Ye, Xiaoru Huang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2847-2864, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047093

Abstract Transformer-based stereo image super-resolution reconstruction (Stereo SR) methods have significantly improved image quality. However, existing methods have deficiencies in paying attention to detailed features and do not consider the offset of pixels along the epipolar lines in complementary views when integrating stereo information. To address these challenges, this paper introduces a novel epipolar line window attention stereo image super-resolution network (EWASSR). For detail feature restoration, we design a feature extractor based on Transformer and convolutional neural network (CNN), which consists of (shifted) window-based self-attention ((S)W-MSA) and feature distillation and enhancement blocks (FDEB). This combination effectively solves the problem of global… More >

Xiaolin Xing¹, Shujie Yang^1,*, Bohan Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1585-1597, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035415

Abstract Image Super-Resolution (SR) research has achieved great success with powerful neural networks. The deeper networks with more parameters improve the restoration quality but add the computation complexity, which means more inference time would be cost, hindering image SR from practical usage. Noting the spatial distribution of the objects or things in images, a two-stage local objects SR system is proposed, which consists of two modules, the object detection module and the SR module. Firstly, You Only Look Once (YOLO), which is efficient in generic object detection tasks, is selected to detect the input images for obtaining objects of interest, then… More >

Mohd Anul Haq^1,*, Siwar Ben Hadj Hassine², Sharaf J. Malebary³, Hakeem A. Othman⁴, Elsayed M. Tag-Eldin⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 2689-2705, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039904

Abstract Hyperspectral images can easily discriminate different materials due to their fine spectral resolution. However, obtaining a hyperspectral image (HSI) with a high spatial resolution is still a challenge as we are limited by the high computing requirements. The spatial resolution of HSI can be enhanced by utilizing Deep Learning (DL) based Super-resolution (SR). A 3D-CNNHSR model is developed in the present investigation for 3D spatial super-resolution for HSI, without losing the spectral content. The 3D-CNNHSR model was tested for the Hyperion HSI. The pre-processing of the HSI was done before applying the SR model so that the full advantage of… More >

P. Sabitha^*, G. Meeragandhi

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.2, pp. 1983-2000, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034402

Abstract Developing an automatic and credible diagnostic system to analyze the type, stage, and level of the liver cancer from Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) images is a very challenging and time-consuming endeavor, even for experienced pathologists, due to the non-uniform illumination and artifacts. Albeit several Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) approaches are employed to increase the performance of automatic liver cancer diagnostic systems, the classification accuracy of these systems still needs significant improvement to satisfy the real-time requirement of the diagnostic situations. In this work, we present a new Ensemble Classifier (hereafter called ECNet) to classify the H&E stained… More >

Kun Yang^1,2, Lei Zhao¹, Xianghui Wang¹, Mingyang Zhang¹, Linyan Xue^1,2, Shuang Liu^1,2, Kun Liu^1,2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5159-5176, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036401

Abstract The diagnosis of COVID-19 requires chest computed tomography (CT). High-resolution CT images can provide more diagnostic information to help doctors better diagnose the disease, so it is of clinical importance to study super-resolution (SR) algorithms applied to CT images to improve the resolution of CT images. However, most of the existing SR algorithms are studied based on natural images, which are not suitable for medical images; and most of these algorithms improve the reconstruction quality by increasing the network depth, which is not suitable for machines with limited resources. To alleviate these issues, we propose a residual feature attentional fusion… More >

Liwei Deng¹, Yuanzhi Zhang¹, Xin Yang^2,*, Sijuan Huang², Jing Wang^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 2671-2684, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036642

Abstract High-resolution medical images have important medical value, but are difficult to obtain directly. Limited by hardware equipment and patient’s physical condition, the resolution of directly acquired medical images is often not high. Therefore, many researchers have thought of using super-resolution algorithms for secondary processing to obtain high-resolution medical images. However, current super-resolution algorithms only work on a single scale, and multiple networks need to be trained when super-resolution images of different scales are needed. This definitely raises the cost of acquiring high-resolution medical images. Thus, we propose a multi-scale super-resolution algorithm using meta-learning. The algorithm combines a meta-learning approach with… More >

Wazir Muhammad¹, Zuhaibuddin Bhutto^2,*, Salman Masroor^3,4, Murtaza Hussain Shaikh⁵, Jalal Shah², Ayaz Hussain¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1121-1142, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.021438

Abstract Medical image super-resolution is a fundamental challenge due to absorption and scattering in tissues. These challenges are increasing the interest in the quality of medical images. Recent research has proven that the rapid progress in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has achieved superior performance in the area of medical image super-resolution. However, the traditional CNN approaches use interpolation techniques as a preprocessing stage to enlarge low-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images, adding extra noise in the models and more memory consumption. Furthermore, conventional deep CNN approaches used layers in series-wise connection to create the deeper mode, because this later end layer cannot… More >

Safi Ullah^1,2, Seong-Ho Song^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 2999-3014, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032326

Abstract Due to highly underdetermined nature of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) problem, deep learning neural networks are required to be more deeper to solve the problem effectively. One of deep neural networks successful in the Super-Resolution (SR) problem is ResNet which can render the capability of deeper networks with the help of skip connections. However, zero padding (ZP) scheme in the network restricts benefits of skip connections in SRResNet and its performance as the ratio of the number of pure input data to that of zero padded data increases. In this paper. we consider the ResNet with Partial Convolution based Padding… More >

Yingying Li¹, Hang Jiang¹, Lianjie Yu¹, Jianfeng Li^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2123-2136, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021407

Abstract To improve the estimation accuracy, a novel time delay estimation (TDE) method based on the closed-form offset compensation is proposed. Firstly, we use the generalized cross-correlation with phase transform (GCC-PHAT) method to obtain the initial TDE. Secondly, a signal model using normalized cross spectrum is established, and the noise subspace is extracted by eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of covariance matrix. Using the orthogonal relation between the steering vector and the noise subspace, the first-order Taylor expansion is carried out on the steering vector reconstructed by the initial TDE. Finally, the offsets are compensated via simple least squares (LS). Compared to other… More >

Israa Ismail^1,*, Mohamed Meselhy Eltoukhy^1,2, Ghada Eltaweel¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 167-181, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.028906

Abstract Super-resolution techniques are used to reconstruct an image with a high resolution from one or more low-resolution image(s). In this paper, we proposed a single image super-resolution algorithm. It uses the nonlocal mean filter as a prior step to produce a denoised image. The proposed algorithm is based on curvelet transform. It converts the denoised image into low and high frequencies (sub-bands). Then we applied a multi-dimensional interpolation called Lancozos interpolation over both sub-bands. In parallel, we applied sparse representation with over complete dictionary for the denoised image. The proposed algorithm then combines the dictionary learning in the sparse representation… More >