BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have a similar pattern of abnormalities on conventional MR images. We used magnetization transfer and diffusion tensor MR imaging to quantify normal-appearing brain tissue and cervical cord disease in patients with ADEM and to compare findings with those in healthy volunteers and patient...

A new psychophysical methodology is introduced, histogram contrast analysis, that allows one to measure stimulus transformations, f, used by the visual system to draw distinctions between different image regions. The method involves the discrimination of images constructed by selecting texture micropatterns randomly and independently (across locations) on the basis of a given micropattern histo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inclusion of oligodendroglial tumors may confound the utility of MR based glioma grading. Our aim was, first, to assess retrospectively whether a histogram-analysis method of MR perfusion images may both grade gliomas and differentiate between low-grade oligodendroglial tumors with or without loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on 1p/19q and, second, to assess retrospectively wh...

Histograms are a widely used tool for data analysis. In this paper, we propose a theory to segment a 1D-histogram without a priori assumptions about the undelying density function. Our approach considers a rigorous definition of an admissible segmentation, which provides a criterion allowing to avoid over and undersegmentation problems. A simple, parameter-free and fast algorithm leading to suc...

To address the technical shortcomings of conventional histogram equalization (HE), such as over-enhancement and artifacts, we propose a histogram-constrained contrast-tunable HE technique for digital image enhancement. Firstly, input is partitioned into two parts, main constrained histogram, by cumulative probability density threshold; second, redistributed equally in whole grayscale range; fin...

many environmental and physiological factors affect plant temperature. the objective of this study was to use thermal imagery to investigate robust features for early diagnosis of botrytis cinerea infection in cut rose flowers under the postharvest application of methyl jasmonate (meja). three cases treated with different concentrations of meja (0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 µl.l−1), a control (0 µl.l−1 me...

in this paper, the performance of 11 different distances for image retrieval and classification, based on color, shape and texture, is evaluated. the precision-recall measure and the correct classification rate of the k-nn classifier are used to evaluate retrieval and classification performances, respectively. the experimental results for a database of 1000 images from 10 different semantic gro...

Traditional histogram enhancement algorithm to enhance image has the defect of over-bright image, amplified noise, and missing image details. In view of these defects, this paper proposes an image enhancement algorithm based on second generation wavelet integer transform. At first, use the second generation wavelet integer transform to decompose the original image with wavelet. Then, integer lo...