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        1 - Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Multi-terminal Binary Decision Diagram based Binary Fuzzy Relations
        Hamid Alavi Toussi Bahram Sadeghi Bigham
        Elimination of redundancies in the memory representation is necessary for fast and efficient analysis of large sets of fuzzy data. In this work, we use MTBDDs as the underlying data-structure to represent fuzzy sets and binary fuzzy relations. This leads to elimination More
        Elimination of redundancies in the memory representation is necessary for fast and efficient analysis of large sets of fuzzy data. In this work, we use MTBDDs as the underlying data-structure to represent fuzzy sets and binary fuzzy relations. This leads to elimination of redundancies in the representation, less computations, and faster analyses. We also extended a BDD package (BuDDy) to support MTBDDs in general and fuzzy sets and relations in particular. Representation and manipulation of MTBDD based fuzzy sets and binary fuzzy relations are described in this paper. These include design and implementation of different fuzzy operations such as max, min and max-min composition. In particular, an efficient algorithm for computing max-min composition is presented.Effectiveness of our MTBDD based implementation is shown by applying it on fuzzy connectedness and image segmentation problem. Compared to a base implementation, the running time of the MTBDD based implementation was faster (in our test cases) by a factor ranging from 2 to 27. Also, when the MTBDD based data-structure was employed, the memory needed to represent the final results was improved by a factor ranging from 37.9 to 265.5. We also describe our base implementation which is based on matrices. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Unsupervised Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using the Human Visual System Line Detection Model
        Mohsen Zardadi Nasser Mehrshad Seyyed Mohammad Razavi
        Retinal image assessment has been employed by the medical community for diagnosing vascular and non-vascular pathology. Computer based analysis of blood vessels in retinal images will help ophthalmologists monitor larger populations for vessel abnormalities. Automatic s More
        Retinal image assessment has been employed by the medical community for diagnosing vascular and non-vascular pathology. Computer based analysis of blood vessels in retinal images will help ophthalmologists monitor larger populations for vessel abnormalities. Automatic segmentation of blood vessels from retinal images is the initial step of the computer based assessment for blood vessel anomalies. In this paper, a fast unsupervised method for automatic detection of blood vessels in retinal images is presented. In order to eliminate optic disc and background noise in the fundus images, a simple preprocessing technique is introduced. First, a newly devised method, based on a simple cell model of the human visual system (HVS) enhances the blood vessels in various directions. Then, an activity function is presented on simple cell responses. Next, an adaptive threshold is used as an unsupervised classifier and classifies each pixel as a vessel pixel or a non-vessel pixel to obtain a vessel binary image. Lastly, morphological post-processing is applied to eliminate exudates which are detected as blood vessels. The method was tested on two publicly available databases, DRIVE and STARE, which are frequently used for this purpose. The results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable with state-of-the-art techniques. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Efficient Land-cover Segmentation Using Meta Fusion
        Morteza Khademi Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi
        Most popular fusion methods have their own limitations; e.g. OWA (order weighted averaging) has “linear model” and “summation of inputs proportions in fusion equal to 1” limitations. Considering all possible models for fusion, proposed fusion method involve input data c More
        Most popular fusion methods have their own limitations; e.g. OWA (order weighted averaging) has “linear model” and “summation of inputs proportions in fusion equal to 1” limitations. Considering all possible models for fusion, proposed fusion method involve input data confusion in fusion process to segmentation. Indeed, limitations in proposed method are determined adaptively for each input data, separately. On the other hand, land-cover segmentation using remotely sensed (RS) images is a challenging research subject; due to the fact that objects in unique land-cover often appear dissimilar in different RS images. In this paper multiple co-registered RS images are utilized to segment land-cover using FCM (fuzzy c-means). As an appropriate tool to model changes, fuzzy concept is utilized to fuse and integrate information of input images. By categorizing the ground points, it is shown in this paper for the first time, fuzzy numbers are need and more suitable than crisp ones to merge multi-images information and segmentation. Finally, FCM is applied on the fused image pixels (with fuzzy values) to obtain a single segmented image. Furthermore mathematical analysis and used proposed cost function, simulation results also show significant performance of the proposed method in terms of noise-free and fast segmentation. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Improving Image Dynamic Range For An Adaptive Quality Enhancement Using Gamma Correction
        Hamid Hassanpour
        This paper proposes a new automatic image enhancement method by improving the image dynamic range. The improvement is performed via modifying the Gamma value of pixels in the image. Gamma distortion in an image is due to the technical limitations in the imaging device, More
        This paper proposes a new automatic image enhancement method by improving the image dynamic range. The improvement is performed via modifying the Gamma value of pixels in the image. Gamma distortion in an image is due to the technical limitations in the imaging device, and impose a nonlinear effect. The severity of distortion in an image varies depends on the texture and depth of the objects. The proposed method locally estimates the Gamma values in an image. In this method, the image is initially segmented using a pixon-based approach. Pixels in each segment have similar characteristics in terms of the need for Gamma correction. Then the Gamma value for each segment is estimated by minimizing the homogeneity of co-occurrence matrix. This feature can represent image details. The minimum value of this feature in a segment shows maximum details of the segment. The quality of an image is improved once more details are presented in the image via Gamma correction. In this study, it is shown that the proposed method performs well in improving the quality of images. Subjective and objective image quality assessments performed in this study attest the superiority of the proposed method compared to the existing methods in image quality enhancement. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Analysis of Business Customers’ Value Network Using Data Mining Techniques
        Forough Farazzmanesh (Isvand) Monireh Hosseini
        In today's competitive environment, customers are the most important asset to any company. Therefore companies should understand what the retention and value drivers are for each customer. An approach that can help consider customers‘ different value dimensions is the More
        In today's competitive environment, customers are the most important asset to any company. Therefore companies should understand what the retention and value drivers are for each customer. An approach that can help consider customers‘ different value dimensions is the value network. This paper aims to introduce a new approach using data mining techniques for mapping and analyzing customers‘ value network. Besides, this approach is applied in a real case study. This research contributes to develop and implement a methodology to identify and define network entities of a value network in the context of B2B relationships. To conduct this work, we use a combination of methods and techniques designed to analyze customer data-sets (e.g. RFM and customer migration) and to analyze value network. As a result, this paper develops a new strategic network view of customers and discusses how a company can add value to its customers. The proposed approach provides an opportunity for marketing managers to gain a deep understanding of their business customers, the characteristics and structure of their customers‘ value network. This paper is the first contribution of its kind to focus exclusively on large data-set analytics to analyze value network. This new approach indicates that future research of value network can further gain the data mining tools. In this case study, we identify the value entities of the network and its value flows in the telecommunication organization using the available data in order to show that it can improve the value in the network by continuous monitoring. Manuscript profile
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        6 - Improvement in Accuracy and Speed of Image Semantic Segmentation via Convolution Neural Network Encoder-Decoder
        Hanieh Zamanian Hassan Farsi Sajad Mohammadzadeh
        Recent researches on pixel-wise semantic segmentation use deep neural networks to improve accuracy and speed of these networks in order to increase the efficiency in practical applications such as automatic driving. These approaches have used deep architecture to predic More
        Recent researches on pixel-wise semantic segmentation use deep neural networks to improve accuracy and speed of these networks in order to increase the efficiency in practical applications such as automatic driving. These approaches have used deep architecture to predict pixel tags, but the obtained results seem to be undesirable. The reason for these unacceptable results is mainly due to the existence of max pooling operators, which reduces the resolution of the feature maps. In this paper, we present a convolutional neural network composed of encoder-decoder segments based on successful SegNet network. The encoder section has a depth of 2, which in the first part has 5 convolutional layers, in which each layer has 64 filters with dimensions of 3×3. In the decoding section, the dimensions of the decoding filters are adjusted according to the convolutions used at each step of the encoding. So, at each step, 64 filters with the size of 3×3 are used for coding where the weights of these filters are adjusted by network training and adapted to the educational data. Due to having the low depth of 2, and the low number of parameters in proposed network, the speed and the accuracy improve compared to the popular networks such as SegNet and DeepLab. For the CamVid dataset, after a total of 60,000 iterations, we obtain the 91% for global accuracy, which indicates improvements in the efficiency of proposed method. Manuscript profile
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        7 - Retinal Vessel Extraction Using Dynamic Threshold And Enhancement Image Filter From Retina Fundus
        erwin erwin Tomi Kiyatmoko
        In the diagnosis of retinal disease, Retinal vessels become an important role in determining certain diseases. Retina vessels are an important element with a variety of shapes and sizes, each human blood vessel also can determine the disease with various types, but the More
        In the diagnosis of retinal disease, Retinal vessels become an important role in determining certain diseases. Retina vessels are an important element with a variety of shapes and sizes, each human blood vessel also can determine the disease with various types, but the feasibility of the pattern of retinal blood vessels is very important for the advanced diagnosis process in medical retina such as detection, identification and classification. Improvement and improvement of image quality in this case is very important by focusing on extracting or segmenting the retinal veins so that parameters such as accuracy, specifications, and sensitivity can be obtained that are better and meet the advanced system. Therefore we conducted experiments in order to develop extraction of retinal images to obtain binary images of retinal vessels in the medical world using Dynamic Threshold and Butterworth Bandpass Filter. Using a database DRIVE Accuracy of 94.77%, sensitivity of 54.48% and specificity of 98.71%. Manuscript profile
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        8 - Body Field: Structured Mean Field with Human Body Skeleton Model and Shifted Gaussian Edge Potentials
        Sara Ershadi-Nasab Shohreh Kasaei Esmaeil Sanaei Erfan Noury Hassan Hafez-kolahi
        An efficient method for simultaneous human body part segmentation and pose estimation is introduced. A conditional random field with a fully-connected graphical model is used. Possible node (image pixel) labels comprise of the human body parts and the background. In the More
        An efficient method for simultaneous human body part segmentation and pose estimation is introduced. A conditional random field with a fully-connected graphical model is used. Possible node (image pixel) labels comprise of the human body parts and the background. In the human body skeleton model, the spatial dependencies among body parts are encoded in the definition of pairwise energy functions according to the conditional random fields. Proper pairwise edge potentials between image pixels are defined according to the presence or absence of human body parts that are near to each other. Various Gaussian kernels in position, color, and histogram of oriented gradients spaces are used for defining the pairwise energy terms. Shifted Gaussian kernels are defined between each two body parts that are connected to each other according to the human body skeleton model. As shifted Gaussian kernels impose a high computational cost to the inference, an efficient inference process is proposed by a mean field approximation method that uses high dimensional shifted Gaussian filtering. The experimental results evaluated on the challenging KTH Football, Leeds Sports Pose, HumanEva, and Penn-Fudan datasets show that the proposed method increases the per-pixel accuracy measure for human body part segmentation and also improves the probability of correct parts metric of human body joint locations. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Performance Analysis of Hybrid SOM and AdaBoost Classifiers for Diagnosis of Hypertensive Retinopathy
        Wiharto Wiharto Esti Suryani Murdoko Susilo
        The diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy (CAD-RH) can be made by observing the tortuosity of the retinal vessels. Tortuosity is a feature that is able to show the characteristics of normal or abnormal blood vessels. This study aims to analyze the performance of the CAD More
        The diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy (CAD-RH) can be made by observing the tortuosity of the retinal vessels. Tortuosity is a feature that is able to show the characteristics of normal or abnormal blood vessels. This study aims to analyze the performance of the CAD-RH system based on feature extraction tortuosity of retinal blood vessels. This study uses a segmentation method based on clustering self-organizing maps (SOM) combined with feature extraction, feature selection, and the ensemble Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) classification algorithm. Feature extraction was performed using fractal analysis with the box-counting method, lacunarity with the gliding box method, and invariant moment. Feature selection is done by using the information gain method, to rank all the features that are produced, furthermore, it is selected by referring to the gain value. The best system performance is generated in the number of clusters 2 with fractal dimension, lacunarity with box size 22-29, and invariant moment M1 and M3. Performance in these conditions is able to provide 84% sensitivity, 88% specificity, 7.0 likelihood ratio positive (LR+), and 86% area under the curve (AUC). This model is also better than a number of ensemble algorithms, such as bagging and random forest. Referring to these results, it can be concluded that the use of this model can be an alternative to CAD-RH, where the resulting performance is in a good category. Manuscript profile
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        10 - A Threshold-based Brain Tumour Segmentation from MR Images using Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization
        Katkoori Arun  Kumar Ravi  Boda
        The Pareto optimal solution is unique in single objective Particle Swarm Optimization (SO-PSO) problems as the emphasis is on the variable space of the decision. A multi-objective-based optimization technique called Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MO-PSO) i More
        The Pareto optimal solution is unique in single objective Particle Swarm Optimization (SO-PSO) problems as the emphasis is on the variable space of the decision. A multi-objective-based optimization technique called Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MO-PSO) is introduced in this paper for image segmentation. The multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MO-PSO) technique extends the principle of optimization by facilitating simultaneous optimization of single objectives. It is used in solving various image processing problems like image segmentation, image enhancement, etc. This technique is used to detect the tumour of the human brain on MR images. To get the threshold, the suggested algorithm uses two fitness(objective) functions- Image entropy and Image variance. These two objective functions are distinct from each other and are simultaneously optimized to create a sequence of pareto-optimal solutions. The global best (Gbest) obtained from MO-PSO is treated as threshold. The MO-PSO technique tested on various MRI images provides its efficiency with experimental findings. In terms of “best, worst, mean, median, standard deviation” parameters, the MO-PSO technique is also contrasted with the existing Single-objective PSO (SO-PSO) technique. Experimental results show that Multi Objective-PSO is 28% advanced than SO-PSO for ‘best’ parameter with reference to image entropy function and 92% accuracy than Single Objective-PSO with reference to image variance function. Manuscript profile
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        11 - Foreground-Back ground Segmentation using K-Means Clustering Algorithm and Support Vector Machine
        Masoumeh Rezaei mansoureh rezaei Masoud Rezaei
        Foreground-background image segmentation has been an important research problem. It is one of the main tasks in the field of computer vision whose purpose is detecting variations in image sequences. It provides candidate objects for further attentional selection, e.g., More
        Foreground-background image segmentation has been an important research problem. It is one of the main tasks in the field of computer vision whose purpose is detecting variations in image sequences. It provides candidate objects for further attentional selection, e.g., in video surveillance. In this paper, we introduce an automatic and efficient Foreground-background segmentation. The proposed method starts with the detection of visually salient image regions with a saliency map that uses Fourier transform and a Gaussian filter. Then, each point in the maps classifies as salient or non-salient using a binary threshold. Next, a hole filling operator is applied for filling holes in the achieved image, and the area-opening method is used for removing small objects from the image. For better separation of the foreground and background, dilation and erosion operators are also used. Erosion and dilation operators are applied for shrinking and expanding the achieved region. Afterward, the foreground and background samples are achieved. Because the number of these data is large, K-means clustering is used as a sampling technique to restrict computational efforts in the region of interest. K cluster centers for each region are set for training of Support Vector Machine (SVM). SVM, as a powerful binary classifier, is used to segment the interest area from the background. The proposed method is applied on a benchmark dataset consisting of 1000 images and experimental results demonstrate the supremacy of the proposed method to some other foreground-background segmentation methods in terms of ER, VI, GCE, and PRI. Manuscript profile
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        12 - Comparing the Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Images Using Deep Convolutional Networks: SegNet, HRNet, CSE-HRNet and RCA-FCN
        Nafiseh Sadeghi Homayoun Mahdavi-Nasab Mansoor Zeinali Hossein Pourghasem
        Semantic segmentation is a branch of computer vision, used extensively in image search engines, automated driving, intelligent agriculture, disaster management, and other machine-human interactions. Semantic segmentation aims to predict a label for each pixel from a giv More
        Semantic segmentation is a branch of computer vision, used extensively in image search engines, automated driving, intelligent agriculture, disaster management, and other machine-human interactions. Semantic segmentation aims to predict a label for each pixel from a given label set, according to semantic information. Among the proposed methods and architectures, researchers have focused on deep learning algorithms due to their good feature learning results. Thus, many studies have explored the structure of deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks. Most of the modern semantic segmentation models are based on fully convolutional networks (FCN), which first replace the fully connected layers in common classification networks with convolutional layers, getting pixel-level prediction results. After that, a lot of methods are proposed to improve the basic FCN methods results. With the increasing complexity and variety of existing data structures, more powerful neural networks and the development of existing networks are needed. This study aims to segment a high-resolution (HR) image dataset into six separate classes. Here, an overview of some important deep learning architectures will be presented with a focus on methods producing remarkable scores in segmentation metrics such as accuracy and F1-score. Finally, their segmentation results will be discussed and we would see that the methods, which are superior in the overall accuracy and overall F1-score, are not necessarily the best in all classes. Therefore, the results of this paper lead to the point to choose the segmentation algorithm according to the application of segmentation and the importance degree of each class. Manuscript profile