Segmentation of the placenta from fetal MRI is challenging due to sparse acquisition, inter-slice motion, and the widely varying position and shape of the placenta between pregnant women. We propose a minimally interactive framework that combines multiple volumes acquired in different views to obtain accurate segmentation of the placenta. In the first phase, a minimally interactive slice-by-sli...

Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease that leads to vision loss. As it cannot be cured, detecting the disease in time is important. Current tests using Intra Ocular Pressure (IOP) are not sensitive enough for population based glaucoma screening. Optic nerve head assessment in retinal fundus images is both more promising and superior. The method to segment optic disc and optic cup using Simple Linea...

OBJECTIVE To find out safety and feasibility of single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SLIC) using conventional instruments. METHODS This study was conducted at surgical department of LUMHS Jamshoro Pakistan from Jan: 2014 to Dec: 2015. All cases of symptomatic cholelithiasis that consented for laparoscopic surgery were included. The exclusion criteria were acute cholecystitis, acute g...

For detecting vehicles in large scale aerial images we first used a non-parametric method proposed recently by Rosin to define the regions of interest, where the vehicles appear with dense edges. The saliency map is a sum of distance transforms (DT) of a set of edges maps, which are obtained by a threshold decomposition of the gradient image with a set of thresholds. A binary mask for highlight...

The assembly of DNA from small fragments into large constructs has seen significant recent development, becoming a pivotal technology in the ability to implement the vision of synthetic biology. As the cost of whole gene synthesis is decreasing, whole genome synthesis at the other end of the spectrum has expanded our horizons to the prospect of fully engineered synthetic cells. However, the rec...

The purpose of this study was to develop methodology to segment tumors on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) images. Sixty-four metastatic bone tumors were included. Graph cut was used for tumor segmentation, with segmentation energy divided into unary and pairwise terms. Locally connected conditional random fields (LCRF) were proposed for the pairwise term. In LCRF...

Program slicing consists of deleting statements from a pro gram creating a reduced program a slice that preserves the original program s behaviour for a given set of variables at a chosen point in the program However some aspects of a program s semantics are not captured by a set of variables rendering slicing inapplica ble to their analysis These aspects of the program s state shall collective...

The ready availability of image-editing software makes ensuring the authenticity of images an important issue. The most common type of image tampering is cloning, or Copy-Move Forgery (CMF), in which part(s) of the image are copied and pasted back into the same image. One possible transformation is where an object is copied, rotated and pasted; this type of forgery is called Copy-Rotate-Move Fo...

Characterizations of up to date information of the Earth's surface are an important application providing insights to urban planning, resources monitoring and environmental studies. A large number of change detection (CD) methods have been developed to solve them by utilizing remote sensing (RS) images. The advent of high resolution (HR) remote sensing images further provides challenges to trad...