Although cooked potato tuber texture is an important trait that influences consumer preference, a detailed understanding of tuber textural properties at the molecular level is lacking. Previous work has identified tuber pectin methyl esterase activity (PME) as a potential factor impacting on textural properties. In this study, tuber PME isoform and gene expression profiles have been determined ...

Motivated by the success of speech characteristics representation by color attributes, we analyzed the cross-modal sentiment correlations between voice source characteristics and textural image characteristics. For the analysis, we employed vowel sounds with representative three phonation differences (modal, creaky and breathy) and 36 texture images with 36 semantic attributes (e.g., banded, cr...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the alternative use of texture analysis for evaluating the role of blood-brain barrier (BBB) in small vessel disease (SVD). METHODS We used brain magnetic resonance imaging from 204 stroke patients, acquired before and 20 min after intravenous gadolinium administration. We segmented tissues, white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and applied validated visual scores. We mea...

Spinous layer being a sub compartment of surface epithelium of oral mucosa, plays also major role in investigating oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) at its early stage in addition to basal layer. This paper aims to provide a technique that can be used to assist the oral pathologists in grading OSF based on textural information of the spinous layer. The proposed scheme intends to evaluate the textur...

BACKGROUND The nucleoside analog 3'-deoxy-3'-18F-fluorothymidine (FLT) has been investigated for evaluating tumor proliferating activity in brain tumors. We evaluated FLT uptake heterogeneity using textural features from the histogram analysis in patients with newly diagnosed gliomas and examined correlation of the results with proliferative activity and patient prognosis, in comparison with th...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique based on interferometry of backscattered lights from materials and biological samples. For the quantitative evaluation OCT system, artificial optical samples or phantoms are commonly used. They mimic structure tissues can provide a quality standard for comparison within across devices. Phantoms contain medium matrix scattering particles...

the takmeh-dash region comprises a wide variety of igneous bodies that have been developed from early to late neogen. the granitic rocks and related aplite apophyses have been developed along fault-dominated structures which defines a well pronounced mineralized zone. according to isotopic and fluid inclusion studies, most of the quartz-pyrite units are solution-related with some traces of cu, ...

Textural attributes of cooked rice (100 samples) were predicted using pasting properties. Two textural attributes (hardness and stickiness) were evaluated by a texture analyzer and seven pasting-property parameters as well as profile data measured by a rapid visco-analyzer (RVA) were used to evaluate predictive models of the textural attributes using Partial Least Squares Regression. The textur...

ABSTRACT- In this study, texture profile analysis and a creep test were used to determine the textural quality attributes of fish protein isolates and conventional surimi. These isolates were made from raw materials obtained from filleting processes of Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) using acid and alkaline aided treatments. Texture profile analysis was performed in order to obtain ha...

In this paper a new split and merge algorithm based on Contourlet transform and Support Vector Machine (SVM) is presented for automatic segmentation and classification of unhealthy in Livestock Texture Images. We focused on the liver textural images of livestock to verify if there is any unhealthy on its textural image. The Contourlet transform is used because it allows analysis of images with ...